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Look up: fancy

  1. Fancy
    Fancy is a town on the northern tip of St Vincent.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Fancy
    Originally a term synonymous with imagination through the use of metaphors or conceits. It was later downgraded by Romantic critics to mean invention of a more superficial nature.
    Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of

  3. fancy
    [adj] - not plain 2. [n] - fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination 3. [v] - have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. fancy
    a character from a font with a special shape,used for aesthetic applications Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • consisting essentially of decorative objects with figurines coming in or going out,according to whether the weather is likely to be good or bad Category: Physics
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Fancy
    Fan'cy noun ; plural Fancies . [ Contr. from fantasy , Old French fantasie , fantaisie , French fantaisie , Latin phantasia , from Greek ........................ appearance, imagination, the power of perception and presentation in the mind, from ........................ to make visible, to place before one's mind, from ..................... to show; ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/7

  6. Fancy
    Fan'cy intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fancied , present participle & verbal noun Fancying ] 1. To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof. « If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.» Locke. 2. To l ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/7

  7. Fancy
    Fan'cy transitive verb 1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. « He whom I fancy , but can ne'er express.» Dryden. 2. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. 'We fancy not the cardinal.' Shak. 3. To believe without sufficient evidence; to ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/7

  8. Fancy
    Fan'cy adjective 1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods. 2. Extravagant; above real value. « This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [ Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants.» Macaulay. Fancy ball , a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses i ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/7

  9. fancy
    1. Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods. ... 2. Extravagant; above real value. 'This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his [Frederick the Great's] father to pay fancy prices for giants.' (Macaulay) Fancy ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. fancy
    adjective not plain; decorative or ornamented; `fancy handwriting`; `fancy clothes`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. fancy
    go for verb have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; `She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler`s window`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. fancy
    partiality noun a predisposition to like something; `he had a fondness for whiskey`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Fancy
    • (n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit. • (v. t.) To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. • (n.) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. • (v. t.) To believe without sufficient evidence; to im...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. fancy
    the power of conception and representation in artistic expression (such as through the use of figures of speech by a poet). The term is sometimes ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/7

  15. Fancy
    Fancy is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Decorated ` Where is it used? The name Fancy is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Fanny ( In English) See also In English: Frances The name Fancy doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Fancy seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Fan

  16. fancy
    1. something many people believe that is false
    2. a predisposition to like something

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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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