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- freezer noun (a freezer, freezers)
A freezer is a very cold cupboard or box that freezes food to keep it fresh for a long time. - freezing adjective (freezing); verb form (freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing); noun (freezing, freezing point)
1) Freezing means very cold. 2) As a verb form, freezing means turning from a liquid into a solid because it gets cold, like water turning… - freight noun (freight, uncountable); verb (freight, freights, freighted, freighting)
Freight is goods carried by trains, ships, trucks or planes. - french adjective (French); noun (French = the language; the French = the people of France)
French is the language of France; it is also spoken in Canada (Quebec), Belgium, Switzerland and many countries in Africa. - frenchman noun (a Frenchman, Frenchmen)
1) A man who comes from France or is French. 2) (history, informal) Sometimes used to mean a French person or soldier in general. - frenzy noun (frenzies)
A wild state of excitement, anger or running about, when a person is not in control. - frequency noun (frequency, frequencies)
1) How often something happens. 2) (maths) The number of times a value or item appears in a set of data. 3) (science) How many waves (of… - frequent adjective (frequent, more frequent, most frequent); verb (frequent, frequents, frequented — formal, «free-KWENT»)
1) Frequent means happening often. 2) To frequent a place is to go there often (formal). - frequently adverb (frequently, more frequently)
1) Frequently means often, many times. - fresco noun (a fresco, frescoes or frescos)
A fresco is a painting made on a wall or ceiling while the plaster is still wet, so the colours become part of the wall. - fresh adjective (fresh, fresher, freshest); adverb (fresh from, freshly)
Of food: recently made, picked or caught, not old or spoiled: fresh bread, fresh fruit. - freshen verb (freshen, freshens, freshened, freshening)
To freshen something is to make it cleaner, cooler or newer: «freshen the room». - freshly adverb (freshly)
1) Very recently; only just: «freshly baked bread», «freshly cut grass». - freshness noun (freshness, uncountable)
Freshness is being newly made, picked or caught, so food is not old or stale. - freshwater adjective (freshwater — no other forms); noun (fresh water, uncountable)
Freshwater describes water that is not salty, like the water in most rivers, lakes, ponds and streams. - fret verb (fret, frets, fretted, fretting); noun (a fret, frets)
To fret means to worry and be upset about something, often again and again. - fretted verb (fret, frets, fretted, fretting)
1) To worry and be anxious about something. 2) (of a carving) Decorated with a pattern of small crossing lines or shapes, as in «fretted… - fri abbreviation (Fri, Fri.)
Fri is the short form of Friday, the day after Thursday and before Saturday. - friar noun (a friar, friars)
1) (church) A man who belongs to a Christian religious order, such as the Franciscans or Dominicans, who has promised to live simply and… - frick exclamation (frick!); verb (frick, fricks, fricked, fricking — slang); adjective use (fricking)
a softer stand-in for the f-word to show annoyance or surprise: «Oh, frick!». - friction noun (friction — uncountable)
Friction is a force that slows things down or stops them when two surfaces rub or slide against each other. - frictional adjective (frictional) — (science)
1) (science) Caused by or to do with friction, the force that slows things when surfaces rub together. - friday noun (Friday, Fridays)
1) Friday is a day of the week. It comes after Thursday and before Saturday. 2) For most children it is the last day of the school week.… - fridge noun (a fridge, fridges — short for refrigerator)
1) A cold cupboard in the kitchen that keeps food and drinks cool and fresh, usually about 3–5 °C. - fried adjective (fried); also the past form of «fry» (fry, fries, fried, frying)
1) Fried food has been cooked in hot oil or fat. 2) Fried is the past of «fry»: cooked in hot oil. 3) Informal: fried can mean very tired… - friend noun (friend, friends); verb (friend — to add someone online; unfriend)
A friend is a person you like and who likes you, who you enjoy being with. - friendliness noun (friendliness)
1) Being kind, warm and nice to others, like a friend. - friendly adjective (friendly, friendlier, friendliest); noun (a friendly — a friendly match, UK)
Kind and pleasant to others; behaving like a friend. - friendship noun (a friendship, friendships; friendship — uncountable for the idea)
The relationship between friends: liking each other, trusting each other, and enjoying time together. - frigate noun (frigates)
An old sailing warship, fairly fast and with many guns. - frigging adjective and adverb (frigging — slang intensifier, UK, Ireland, US); verb form (frig, frigs, frigged, frigging)
a stand-in for the f-word to show anger or for emphasis: «the frigging car won't start». - fright noun (fright, frights)
A fright is a sudden feeling of fear: you gave me a fright. - frighten verb (frighten, frightens, frightened, frightening)
1) To frighten means to make someone feel scared. 2) To frighten away or off means to scare an animal or person so they go away. - frightened adjective (frightened, more frightened, most frightened); verb form (past of frighten)
1) Frightened means afraid or scared. 2) Frightened is also the past form of «frighten», which means to make someone afraid. - frightful adjective
1) Very bad, terrible or causing great fear. 2) (informal) Very bad or unpleasant, as in «a frightful mess». - frightfully adverb
1) (old-fashioned, mainly UK) Very; extremely, as in «frightfully kind» or «frightfully sorry». 2) In a frightening or terrible way. - frill noun (a frill, frills); in phrase «no frills»
A frill is a strip of cloth with lots of folds sewn on the edge of a dress, curtain or collar for decoration. - frilled adjective (frilled)
Having a frill: a strip of cloth with folds or waves sewn on the edge. - frilly adjective (frilly, frillier, frilliest)
Decorated with frills, wavy strips of cloth or lace gathered into folds, as on a dress, curtain or sock. - fringe noun (a fringe, fringes); adjective (fringe, as in fringe ideas)
A fringe is hair cut short and straight across the forehead; Americans call it bangs. - frisbee noun (a frisbee, frisbees); verb (frisbee — rare, informal)
1) A light plastic disc that you throw and catch by spinning it through the air. 2) The game of throwing and catching such a disc. - frisian adjective (Frisian); noun (a Frisian, Frisians; the Frisian language; a Frisian cow or horse)
Frisian means from or belonging to Friesland or the Frisian Islands, a region along the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and Germany. - frisk verb (frisks, frisked, frisking); noun (frisks)
1) To jump and skip about playfully, as a lively animal does. 2) A small playful leap or skip. - frisking verb form of frisk (frisking)
Jumping and skipping about happily and playfully. - frisky adjective (friskier, friskiest)
Lively, full of play and energy, and not keeping still. - fritter noun (a fritter, fritters); verb (fritter away, fritters, frittered, frittering)
A fritter is a piece of fruit, vegetable or meat dipped in batter and fried, like an apple fritter or corn fritter. - frivolous adjective
Silly and not serious; caring more about fun or trifles than about what matters. - frizzle verb (frizzles, frizzled, frizzling)
1) To cook in hot fat so that it sizzles and goes crisp. 2) To curl hair into tight small curls. - frock noun (frocks)
A dress worn by a girl or woman. - frog noun (frog, frogs)
A frog is a small green or brown animal with long back legs that jumps and lives near water. - frogfish noun (a frogfish, frogfish or frogfishes)
A frogfish is a small, lumpy sea fish that lives in warm oceans, often on coral reefs; it is a kind of anglerfish. - froghopper noun (a froghopper, froghoppers)
1) A small jumping insect whose young live inside a blob of froth on plants, called cuckoo spit; also called a spittlebug. - frolic verb (frolic, frolics, frolicked, frolicking); noun (a frolic, frolics)
1) To play and run about in a happy, lively way. 2) (noun) Lively, happy play or a fun time. - from preposition
From shows where something starts or comes from: a letter from Grandma, from home. - frond noun (fronds)
A long leaf of a fern or palm, often divided into many small leaves. - front noun (the front, fronts); adjective
The front is the part that is first or ahead of the rest. - frontal adjective (frontal); noun (a frontal, frontals — rare)
Frontal means at the front or facing the front of something. - frontier noun (a frontier, frontiers)
A frontier is a border between two countries, or the land near it. - frontispiece noun (frontispieces)
1) A picture facing the title page at the front of an old book. - frost noun (frost — uncountable; a frost, frosts); verb (frost, frosts, frosted, frosting)
Thin white ice crystals that form on grass, cars and windows when the air is below freezing, especially on cold clear nights. - frostbite noun (frostbite)
1) Frostbite is an injury to the skin and the body under it caused by very cold weather, usually on the fingers, toes, nose and ears. - frostbitten adjective (frostbitten)
Frostbitten means injured by extreme cold, so that skin and the flesh under it freeze, especially on fingers, toes, ears and nose. - frosty adjective (frosty, frostier, frostiest)
1) Very cold, with frost (thin white ice) on the ground and on things. 2) Covered with frost. 3) Unfriendly and cold in manner. - froth noun (froth — uncountable); verb (froth, froths, frothed, frothing)
Froth is lots of small bubbles on top of a liquid, like foam on a milkshake. - frothing verb form (froth, froths, frothed, frothing); adjective (frothing); noun (froth, uncountable)
Frothing means making or having lots of tiny bubbles on top, like foam on a milkshake or soap. - frothy adjective (frothy, frothier, frothiest)
Frothy means covered in or full of froth, a mass of tiny bubbles. - frown verb (frown, frowns, frowned, frowning); noun (a frown, frowns)
To frown is to bring your eyebrows together and wrinkle your forehead because you are cross, worried, puzzled or thinking hard. - frozen adjective (frozen); verb form (past participle of freeze: freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing)
Frozen means turned into ice or made hard by cold: a frozen lake. - frugal adjective (frugal, more frugal, most frugal)
1) Frugal means spending little and making do with simple things; a frugal meal is small and plain. - fruit noun (fruit — usually no plural for the food; fruits — kinds of fruit); verb (fruit — to make fruit)
Fruit is the sweet or juicy part of a plant that holds its seeds and that you can eat, like an apple, a pear, a plum or a banana. - fruitcake noun (a fruitcake, fruitcakes; also fruitcake — uncountable for the food)
A fruitcake is a rich cake full of dried fruit like raisins, currants and cherries, often eaten at Christmas and weddings. - fruitful adjective (fruitful, more fruitful, most fruitful)
Fruitful means producing much fruit or crops, so the land gives rich harvests. - fruitfulness noun (fruitfulness)
1) Fruitfulness is the state of producing much fruit, crops or young animals. - fruitless adjective (fruitless, more fruitless, most fruitless)
1) Fruitless means producing no result; it fails to find or gain anything. - fruity adjective (fruity, fruitier, fruitiest)
Fruity means tasting or smelling strongly of fruit. - frustrate verb (frustrate, frustrates, frustrated, frustrating)
To frustrate someone is to make them feel cross and upset because they cannot do or get what they want. - frustrated adjective (frustrated, more frustrated); verb form (frustrate → frustrated)
Feeling upset and annoyed because you cannot do something or cannot get what you want, even though you try. - frustrating adjective (frustrating, more frustrating, most frustrating); verb form (frustrating, from frustrate)
Frustrating describes something that makes you feel cross and upset because you cannot do or change it. - frustration noun (frustration, frustrations)
A cross, upset feeling you get when you cannot do something or cannot get what you want. - fry verb (fry, fries, fried, frying); noun (fry — young fish; fries — chips)
To fry food is to cook it in hot oil or fat in a pan. - frying verb, the -ing form of «fry» (fry, fries, fried, frying); adjective (frying, as in «frying pan»)
1) Frying is cooking food in hot oil or fat. 2) A frying pan is a flat, shallow pan with a long handle used for frying. - fsh abbreviation (FSH); also a sound (fsh, fssh)
FSH stands for «follicle-stimulating hormone», a chemical messenger in the body that helps grown-ups' bodies develop and have babies. - ft abbreviation (ft — for «foot» or «feet»)
The short form of «foot» or «feet», a unit of length in the imperial system; 1 ft = 12 inches, about 30 centimetres. - fudge noun (fudge, fudges); verb (fudge, fudges, fudged, fudging); exclamation (fudge — informal)
Fudge is a soft, sweet candy made from sugar, butter and milk, often with chocolate. - fuel noun (fuel, fuels); verb (fuel, fuels, fuelled/fueled, fuelling/fueling)
Fuel is something that is burned to make heat or power, like petrol, gas, coal or wood. - fuelled verb past form of fuel (fuel, fuels, fuelled, fuelling; US: fueled, fueling); adjective (-fuelled, as in «coal-fuelled»)
Fuelled means given fuel such as petrol, gas, coal or wood, so that it can work or burn: «a plane fuelled for take-off». - fugitive noun (a fugitive, fugitives); adjective (fugitive)
A person who is running away or hiding, especially from the police or from danger. - fugu noun (uncountable; also a fugu)
A pufferfish, or a Japanese dish made from it. - fuji proper noun (Fuji, Mount Fuji); noun (a Fuji apple, Fuji apples)
Fuji, or Mount Fuji, is the tallest mountain in Japan, a volcano with a snowy top near Tokyo. - ful suffix fragment (-ful); not a word on its own
«-ful» is an ending added to a word to make an adjective meaning «full of» or «having»: careful, hopeful, colourful, helpful. - fulfil verb (fulfil, fulfils, fulfilled, fulfilling) — US spelling fulfill
To do what you promised or what is needed: «fulfil a promise». - fulfill verb (fulfill, fulfills, fulfilled, fulfilling)
To fulfill something is to do or carry out what was promised, needed or wished. - fulfilled verb, past form of fulfil (fulfil, fulfils, fulfilled, fulfilling); adjective (fulfilled, more fulfilled)
1) Done or carried out as promised or needed. 2) Of a dream or hope: made to come true. 3) (adjective) Happy and satisfied because your… - fulfillment noun (fulfillment)
1) Fulfillment is the act of carrying out a promise or wish, or the feeling of having it come true. (British spelling: fulfilment) - fulfilment noun (fulfilment — uncountable) — UK spelling; US: fulfillment
A feeling of being happy and satisfied because you are doing something useful or that you love. - full adjective (full, fuller, fullest); adverb; noun (in full)
Full means holding as much as it can hold: «a full cup». - fullness noun (fullness — uncountable)
Being full: a feeling of fullness after dinner. - fully adverb (fully)
1) Completely; in every way: "fully charged", "fully grown". 2) At least; as much as: "Fully half the class was ill." - fumble verb (fumble, fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
To fumble is to handle something clumsily with the hands, often in the dark or in a hurry. - fumbling adjective (fumbling, more fumbling); verb form (fumble, fumbles, fumbled, fumbling); noun (fumbling, a fumbling)
Using your hands in a clumsy, unsure way, so you drop things or cannot do a job neatly.
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