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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

fast dye
verb dye with fast colors; `These shirts should be fast-dyed`

fast food
noun inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly

fast lane
noun the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly

Fast of Esther
noun (Judaism) a minor fast day on Adar 13 commemorates three days that Esther fasted before approaching the Persian king on behalf of the Jewish people; the fast is connected with Purim

Fast of Gedaliah
noun (Judaism) a minor fast day on Tishri 3 that commemorates the killing of the Jewish governor of Judah

Fast of Tammuz
noun (Judaism) a minor fast day on Tammuz 17 when the walls of Jerusalem were breached

Fast of Tevet
noun (Judaism) a minor fast day on Tevet 10 commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem and has also been proclaimed a memorial day for the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust

Fast of the Firstborn
noun (Judaism) a minor fast day on Nissan 14 that is observed only by firstborn males; it is observed on the day before Passover

fast reactor
noun nuclear reactor in which nuclear fissions are caused by fast neutrons because little or no moderator is used

fast time scale
noun (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one

fast track
noun a rapid means of achieving a goal; `they saw independence as the fast track to democracy`; `he took a fast track to the top of the corporate ladder`; `the company went off the fast track when the stock market dropped`

fast-breaking
adjective occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession; `the broadcast was interrupted by a fast-breaking news story about the invasion`

fast-flying
flying adjective moving swiftly; `fast-flying planes`; `played the difficult passage with flying fingers`

fast-paced
adjective of communication that proceeds rapidly; `a fast-paced talker`; `fast-paced fiction`

fastball
heater noun (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; `he swung late on the fastball`; `he showed batters nothing but smoke`

fasten
verb become fixed or fastened; `This dress fastens in the back`

fasten
verb cause to be firmly attached; `fasten the lock onto the door`; `she fixed her gaze on the man`

fastened
adjective firmly closed or secured; `found the gate fastened`; `a fastened seatbelt`

fastener
fastening noun restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

fastening
attachment noun the act of fastening things together

fastidious
adjective giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; `a fastidious and incisive intellect`; `fastidious about personal cleanliness`

fastidious
adjective having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; `fastidious microorganisms`; `certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements`

fastidiously
adverb in a fastidious manner; `he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative`

fastidiousness
noun the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style; `neatness and fastidiousness of dress`

fastigiate
adjective having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column)

fastnacht
noun doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday

fastness
fixity noun the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

fat
fertile 1 productive adjective marked by great fruitfulness; `fertile farmland`; `a fat land`; `a productive vineyard`; `rich soil`

fat cat
noun a wealthy and privileged person

fat cell
adipose cell noun cells composed of fat

fat chance
slim chance noun little or no chance of success

fat embolism
noun serious condition in which fat blocks an artery; fat can enter the blood stream after a long bone is fractured or if adipose tissue is injured or as a result of a fatty liver

fat farm
noun a health spa that specializes in helping people lose weight

fat metabolism
noun a metabolic process that breaks down ingested fats into fatty acids and glycerol and then into simpler compounds that can be used by cells of the body

fat-soluble
adjective soluble in fats; `fat-soluble vitamin A`

fat-soluble vitamin
noun any vitamin that is soluble in fats

fata morgana
noun a mirage in the Strait of Messina (attributed to the Arthurian sorcerer Morgan le Fay)

Fatah Revolutionary Council
Fatah-RC noun a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries; `in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group`

Fatah Tanzim
Tanzim noun a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat`s unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership

fatal
fateful adjective controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; `a fatal series of events`

fatal accident
noun an accident that causes someone to die

fatalism
noun a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them

fatalist
fatalistic adjective relating to or implying fatalism; `fatalistic thinking`

fatality
human death noun a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; `a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities`

fatally
adverb with fatal consequences or implications; `he was fatally ill equipped for the climb`

fatback
noun salt pork from the back of a hog carcass

fateful
fatal adjective having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; `that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea`- Saturday Rev; `the fatal day of the election finally arrived`

fatefully
adverb in a prophetically fateful manner; `the nurse whispered fatefully to call the priest`

Fates
Weird Sisters noun a group of three goddesses of destiny

fathead
goof noun a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

Father
noun `Father` is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre` is frequently used in the military

Father Brown
noun a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton

father figure
father surrogate noun a man who takes over all the functions of the real father

Father`s Day
noun US: third Sunday in June

Father-God
Fatherhood noun God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; `hear our prayers, Heavenly Father`

father-in-law
noun the father of your spouse

fatherhood
noun the status of a father

fatherland
homeland noun the country where you were born

fatherless
adjective not having a known or legally responsible father

fatherliness
paternal quality noun the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; `the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears`

fatherly
fatherlike adjective like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

fathom
sound verb measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

fathomable
plumbable adjective (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth

fatigability
noun susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength

fatigue
noun (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; `he was suffering from museum fatigue`; `after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue`; `the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue`; `political fatigue`

fatigue crack
noun a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue

fatigue duty
fatigue noun labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); `the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson`; `they were assigned to kitchen fatigues`

fatigue fracture
stress fracture noun fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury

fatigue party
noun a group of soldiers on fatigue duty

fatigues
noun military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor

Fatiha
Fatihah noun the first or opening sura of the Quran which is the central prayer of Islam and is used on all special occasions as well as during the five daily prayers

fatness
fat noun excess bodily weight; `she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others`

fatso
fatty noun a rotund individual

fatten
fat verb make fat or plump; `We will plump out that poor starving child`

fattened
adjective (of market animals) made ready for market

fattening
adjective subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter; `a fattening hog`; `fattening pens`

fattish
adjective somewhat fat

fattism
fatism noun discrimination against people who are overweight

fatty
adjective containing or composed of fat; `fatty food`; `fat tissue`

fatty acid
noun any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms

fatty liver
noun yellow discoloration as a result of the accumulation of certain fats (triglycerides) in the liver; can be caused by alcoholic cirrhosis or pregnancy or exposure to certain toxins

fatuity
fatuousness noun a ludicrous folly; `the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown`s behavior`

fatuously
inanely adverb vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish

fatwa
noun a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority

fatwah
noun (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar; `bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States`

faubourg
noun a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city; `in Faubourg Sainte-Marie`

faucal
adjective of or relating to the fauces

fauces
noun the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx

faucet
noun a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir

fauld
noun a piece of armor plate below the breastplate

Faulkner
William Faulkner noun United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)

fault
noun (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); `it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it`

fault line
noun (geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth`s surface

faultfinding
carping noun persistent petty and unjustified criticism

faultfinding(a)
adjective tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions; `a counselor tries not to be faultfinding`

faultily
adverb in an inaccurate manner; `these statements were faultily attributed to me`

faultless
immaculate adjective without fault or error; `faultless logic`; `speaks impeccable French`; `timing and technique were immaculate`; `an immaculate record`

faultlessly
adverb without a fault; in a faultless manner; `he solved all the problems faultlessly`

faultlessness
noun the quality of being without an error or fault

faulty
adjective characterized by errors; `he submitted a faulty report`