English Dictionary: flutter | by the DICT Development Group |
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Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[ecr]s"k[usl]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f[82]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.] 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. [bd]Pedantic fescue.[b8] --Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus {Festuca}. {Fescue grass} (Bot.), a genus of grasses ({Festuca}) containing several species of importance in agriculture. {Festuca ovina} is {sheep's fescue}; {F. elatior} is {meadow fescue}. | |
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Fallow deer \Fal"low deer`\ [So called from its fallow or pale yellow color.] (Zo[94]l.) A European species of deer ({Cervus dama}), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks. | |
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Falter \Fal"ter\, v. t. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. And here he faltered forth his last farewell. --Byron. Mde me most happy, faltering [bd]I am thine.[b8] --Tennyson. | |
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Falter \Fal"ter\, n. [See {Falter}, v. i.] Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice. The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe. --Lowell. | |
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Falter \Fal"ter\, v. t. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faltered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faltering}.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See {Fault}, v. & n.] 1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton. 2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. [bd]He found his legs falter.[b8] --Wiseman. 3. To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak. 4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. --I. Taylor. | |
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Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faltered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faltering}.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See {Fault}, v. & n.] 1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton. 2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. [bd]He found his legs falter.[b8] --Wiseman. 3. To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak. 4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. --I. Taylor. | |
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Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, a. Hesitating; trembling. [bd]With faltering speech.[b8] --Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"ter*ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Faltered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faltering}.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See {Fault}, v. & n.] 1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton. 2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. [bd]He found his legs falter.[b8] --Wiseman. 3. To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak. 4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. --I. Taylor. | |
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Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, a. Hesitating; trembling. [bd]With faltering speech.[b8] --Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"ter*ing*ly}, adv. | |
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Faulter \Fault"er\, n. One who commits a fault. [Obs.] Behold the faulter here in sight. --Fairfax. | |
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Felltare \Fell"tare`\, n. [Cf. AS. fealafor, and E. fieldfare.] (Zo[94]l.) The fieldfare. | |
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Felter \Felt"er\, v. t. To clot or mat together like felt. His feltered locks that on his bosom fell. --Fairfax. | |
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Feltry \Fel"try\, n. [OF. feltre.] See {Felt}, n. [Obs.] | |
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Field \Field\, n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. f[84]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.] 1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. 2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. Fields which promise corn and wine. --Byron. 3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. --Shak. What though the field be lost? --Milton. 4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.: (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. --Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. --Pope. 5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of {Fess}, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver). 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. --Macaulay. 7. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. 8. (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also {outfield}. Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc. {Coal field} (Geol.) See under {Coal}. {Field artillery}, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army. {Field basil} (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family ({Calamintha Acinos}); -- called also {basil thyme}. {Field colors} (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors. {Field cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a large European cricket ({Gryllus campestric}), remarkable for its loud notes. {Field day}. (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. --Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day. {Field driver}, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound. {Field duck} (Zo[94]l.), the little bustard ({Otis tetrax}), found in Southern Europe. {Field glass}. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass. (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws. (c) See {Field lens}. {Field lark}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit. {Field lens} (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also {field glass}. {Field madder} (Bot.), a plant ({Sherardia arvensis}) used in dyeing. {Field marshal} (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies. {Field mouse} (Zo[94]l.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See {Campagnol}, and {Deer mouse}. {Field officer} (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general. {Field officer's court} (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts. --Farrow. {Field plover} (Zo[94]l.), the black-bellied plover ({Charadrius squatarola}); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper ({Bartramia longicauda}). {Field spaniel} (Zo[94]l.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game. {Field sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small American sparrow ({Spizella pusilla}). (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.] {Field staff}> (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun. {Field vole} (Zo[94]l.), the European meadow mouse. {Field of ice}, a large body of floating ice; a pack. {Field}, [or] {Field of view}, in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen. {Field magnet}. see under {Magnet}. {Magnetic field}. See {Magnetic}. {To back the field}, [or] {To bet on the field}. See under {Back}, v. t. -- {To keep the field}. (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign. (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. {To} {lay, [or] back}, {against the field}, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers. {To take the field} (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign. | |
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Field \Field\, n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. f[84]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.] 1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. 2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. Fields which promise corn and wine. --Byron. 3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. --Shak. What though the field be lost? --Milton. 4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.: (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. --Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. --Pope. 5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of {Fess}, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver). 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. --Macaulay. 7. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. 8. (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also {outfield}. Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc. {Coal field} (Geol.) See under {Coal}. {Field artillery}, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army. {Field basil} (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family ({Calamintha Acinos}); -- called also {basil thyme}. {Field colors} (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors. {Field cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a large European cricket ({Gryllus campestric}), remarkable for its loud notes. {Field day}. (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. --Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day. {Field driver}, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound. {Field duck} (Zo[94]l.), the little bustard ({Otis tetrax}), found in Southern Europe. {Field glass}. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass. (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws. (c) See {Field lens}. {Field lark}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit. {Field lens} (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also {field glass}. {Field madder} (Bot.), a plant ({Sherardia arvensis}) used in dyeing. {Field marshal} (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies. {Field mouse} (Zo[94]l.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See {Campagnol}, and {Deer mouse}. {Field officer} (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general. {Field officer's court} (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts. --Farrow. {Field plover} (Zo[94]l.), the black-bellied plover ({Charadrius squatarola}); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper ({Bartramia longicauda}). {Field spaniel} (Zo[94]l.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game. {Field sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small American sparrow ({Spizella pusilla}). (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.] {Field staff}> (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun. {Field vole} (Zo[94]l.), the European meadow mouse. {Field of ice}, a large body of floating ice; a pack. {Field}, [or] {Field of view}, in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen. {Field magnet}. see under {Magnet}. {Magnetic field}. See {Magnetic}. {To back the field}, [or] {To bet on the field}. See under {Back}, v. t. -- {To keep the field}. (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign. (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. {To} {lay, [or] back}, {against the field}, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers. {To take the field} (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign. | |
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Fielder \Field"er\, n. (Ball Playing) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls. | |
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Fieldwork \Field"work`\, n. (Mil.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural. All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. --Wilhelm. | |
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Filatory \Fil"a*to*ry\, n. [LL. filatorium place for spinning, fr. filare to spin, fr. L. filum a thread.] A machine for forming threads. [Obs.] --W. Tooke. | |
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Filature \Fil"a*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL. filatura, fr. filare to spin: cf. F. filature. See {Filatory}.] 1. A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. --Ure. 2. A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, n. Same as {Philter}. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See {Feuter}.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. {Filter bed}, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. {Filter gallery}, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also {infiltration gallery}. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf. {Filtrate}.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. {Filtering paper}, [or] {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See {Feuter}.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. {Filter bed}, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. {Filter gallery}, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also {infiltration gallery}. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See {Feuter}.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. {Filter bed}, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. {Filter gallery}, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also {infiltration gallery}. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf. {Filtrate}.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. {Filtering paper}, [or] {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf. {Filtrate}.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. {Filtering paper}, [or] {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf. {Filtrate}.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. {Filtering paper}, [or] {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. | |
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Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf. {Filtrate}.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. {Filtering paper}, [or] {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. | |
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Filthy \Filth"y\, a. [Compar. {Filthier}; superl. {Filthiest}.] Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. [bd]In the filthy-mantled pool.[b8] --Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. --Rev. xxii. 11. Syn: Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish; gross; vulgar; licentious. See {Nasty}. | |
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Filtrate \Fil"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtrating}. ] [Cf. LL. filtrare. See {Filter}.] To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Filtrate \Fil"trate\, n. That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration. | |
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Filtrate \Fil"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtrating}. ] [Cf. LL. filtrare. See {Filter}.] To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Filtrate \Fil"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtrating}. ] [Cf. LL. filtrare. See {Filter}.] To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Filtration \Fil*tra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. filtration.] The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it. | |
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Flat \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl[94]tz stratum, layer.] 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b). {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}. {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See {File}. {Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded. {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}. {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. | |
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Flat \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl[94]tz stratum, layer.] 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b). {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}. {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See {File}. {Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded. {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}. {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. | |
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Flat \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl[94]tz stratum, layer.] 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b). {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}. {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See {File}. {Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded. {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}. {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. | |
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Roof \Roof\, n. [OE. rof, AS. hr[?]f top, roof; akin to D. roef cabin, Icel. hr[?]f a shed under which ships are built or kept; cf. OS. hr[?]st roof, Goth. hr[?]t. Cf. {Roost}.] 1. (Arch.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see {Roofing}) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. 2. That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth. The flowery roof Showered roses, which the morn repaired. --Milton. 3. (Mining.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. {Bell roof}, {French roof}, etc. (Arch.) See under {Bell}, {French}, etc. {Flat roof}. (Arch.) (a) A roof actually horizontal and level, as in some Oriental buildings. (b) A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination. {Roof plate}. (Arch.) See {Plate}, n., 10. | |
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Flat \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl[94]tz stratum, layer.] 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b). {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}. {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See {File}. {Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded. {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}. {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. | |
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Flatiron \Flat"i`ron\, n. An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes. | |
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Flatour \Fla*tour"\, n. [OF.] A flatterer. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Flat \Flat\, a. [Compar. {Flatter}; superl. {Flattest}.] [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. fl[94]tz stratum, layer.] 1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton. 2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton. 3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. --Coleridge. 4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste. 5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak. 6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat. 7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. --Marston. 8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound. 9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. {Flat arch}. (Arch.) See under {Arch}, n., 2. (b). {Flat cap}, cap paper, not folded. See under {Paper}. {Flat chasing}, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight. {Flat chisel}, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. {Flat file}, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See {File}. {Flat nail}, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight. {Flat paper}, paper which has not been folded. {Flat rail}, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper. {Flat rods} (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. --Raymond. {Flat rope}, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit. Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. --Knight. {Flat space}. (Geom.) See {Euclidian space}. {Flat stitch}, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade. {To fall flat} (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord Erskine. | |
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Flatter \Flat"ter\, n. 1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. 2. (Metal Working) (a) A flat-faced fulling hammer. (b) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. | |
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Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattering}.] [OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla[?]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. {Flitter}, {Flutter}, {Flattery}.] 1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. --Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. --Prescott. 2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. 3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. | |
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Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. i. To use flattery or insincere praise. If it may stand him more in stead to lie, Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure. --Milton. | |
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Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattering}.] [OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla[?]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. {Flitter}, {Flutter}, {Flattery}.] 1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. --Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. --Prescott. 2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. 3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. | |
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Flatterer \Flat"ter*er\, n. One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. --Addison. | |
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Flattery \Flat"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Flatteries}. [OE. flaterie, OF. flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of uncertain origin. See {Flatter}, v. t.] The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. --Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. --Burke. Syn: Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See {Adulation}. | |
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Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattering}.] [OE. flateren, cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel. fla[?]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. {Flitter}, {Flutter}, {Flattery}.] 1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. --Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. --Prescott. 2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations. 3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him. | |
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Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a. That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. --Goldsmith. | |
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Flatteringly \Flat"ter*ing*ly\, adv. With flattery. | |
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Flattery \Flat"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Flatteries}. [OE. flaterie, OF. flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of uncertain origin. See {Flatter}, v. t.] The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. --Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. --Burke. Syn: Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See {Adulation}. | |
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Flatware \Flat"ware`\, n. Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from {hollow ware}. | |
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Flatware \Flat"ware`\, n. Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from {hollow ware}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] | |
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Flatworm \Flat"worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians. | |
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d8Platyelminthes \[d8]Plat`y*el*min"thes\, n. pl. [NL. See {Platy-}, and {Helminthes}.] (Zo[94]l.) A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also {flatworms}. | |
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Flawter \Flaw"ter\, v. t. [Cf. {Flay}.] To scrape o[?] pare, as a skin. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
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Fleet \Fleet\, a. [Compar. {Fleeter}; superl. {Fleetest}.] [Cf. Icel. flj[?]tr quick. See {Fleet}, v. i.] 1. Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble. In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong. --Milton. 2. Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. [Prov. Eng.] --Mortimer. | |
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Flitter \Flit"ter\, n. [Cf. G. flitter spangle, tinsel, flittern to make a tremulous motion, to glitter. Cf. {Flitter}, v. i.] A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment. | |
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Flitter \Flit"ter\, v. i. To flutter. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Flitter \Flit"ter\, v. t. To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.] --Lowell. | |
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Pipistrel \Pi*pis"trel\, Pipistrelle \Pip`i*strelle"\, n. [F. pipistrelle, It. pipistrello.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European bat ({Vesperugo pipistrellus}); -- called also {flittermouse}. | |
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Flittermouse \Flit"ter*mouse`\, n. [Flitter, v.i. + mouse; cf. G. fledermaus, OHG. fledarm[umac]s. Cf. {Flickermouse}, {Flindermouse}.] (Zo[94]l.) A bat; -- called also {flickermouse}, {flindermouse}, and {flintymouse}. | |
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Pipistrel \Pi*pis"trel\, Pipistrelle \Pip`i*strelle"\, n. [F. pipistrelle, It. pipistrello.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European bat ({Vesperugo pipistrellus}); -- called also {flittermouse}. | |
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Flittermouse \Flit"ter*mouse`\, n. [Flitter, v.i. + mouse; cf. G. fledermaus, OHG. fledarm[umac]s. Cf. {Flickermouse}, {Flindermouse}.] (Zo[94]l.) A bat; -- called also {flickermouse}, {flindermouse}, and {flintymouse}. | |
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Flittern \Flit"tern\, a. A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. --McElrath. | |
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Float \Float\ (fl[omac]t), n.[OE. flote ship, boat, fleet, AS. flota ship, fr. fle[a2]tan to float; akin to D. vloot fleet, G. floss raft, Icel. floti float, raft, fleet, Sw. flotta. [root] 84. See {Fleet}, v. i., and cf. {Flotilla}, {Flotsam}, {Plover}.] 1. Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. Specifically: (a) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. (b) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. (c) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish. (d) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver. This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry. --J. P. Peters. 2. A float board. See {Float board} (below). 3. (Tempering) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. --Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. [Obs.] --Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] --Mortimer. 6. (Plastering) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed. 7. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. --Knight. 8. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe. 9. A coal cart. [Eng.] --Simmonds. 10. The sea; a wave. See {Flote}, n. {Float board}, one of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or of a steamer's paddle wheel; -- a vane. {Float case} (Naut.), a caisson used for lifting a ship. {Float} {copper [or] gold} (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, and thus liable to be lost. {Float ore}, water-worn particles of ore; fragments of vein material found on the surface, away from the vein outcrop. --Raymond. {Float stone} (Arch.), a siliceous stone used to rub stonework or brickwork to a smooth surface. {Float valve}, a valve or cock acted upon by a float. See {Float}, 1 (b) . | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Floater \Float"er\ (Politics) (a) A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. [U. S.] (b) A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own. [U. S.] (c) A person who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted. [U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Floater \Float"er\, n. 1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Floatiersman \Floa"tiers*man\, n.; pl. {Frontiersmen}. A man living on the frontier. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flooder \Flood"er\, n. One who floods anything. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flotery \Flot"er*y\, a. Wavy; flowing. [Obs.] With flotery beard. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flouter \Flout"er\, n. One who flouts; a mocker. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dram \Dram\, n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. [?], prop., a handful, fr. [?] to grasp. Cf. {Drachm}, {Drachma}.] 1. A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains. 2. A minute quantity; a mite. Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing. --Milton. 3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. --Shak. 4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69. {Fluid dram}, [or] {Fluid drachm}. See under {Fluid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fluid \Flu"id\, n. A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term is sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism, as in phrases electric fluid, magnetic fluid, though not strictly appropriate. {Fluid dram}, [or] {Fluid drachm}, a measure of capacity equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce. {Fluid ounce}. (a) In the United States, a measure of capacity, in apothecaries' or wine measure, equal to one sixteenth of a pint or 29.57 cubic centimeters. This, for water, is about 1.04158 ounces avoirdupois, or 455.6 grains. (b) In England, a measure of capacity equal to the twentieth part of an imperial pint. For water, this is the weight of the avoirdupois ounce, or 437.5 grains. {Fluids of the body}. (Physiol.) The circulating blood and lymph, the chyle, the gastric, pancreatic, and intestinal juices, the saliva, bile, urine, aqueous humor, and muscle serum are the more important fluids of the body. The tissues themselves contain a large amount of combined water, so much, that an entire human body dried in vacuo with a very moderate degree of heat gives about 66 per cent of water. {Burning fluid}, {Elastic fluid}, {Electric fluid}, {Magnetic fluid}, etc. See under {Burning}, {Elastic}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dram \Dram\, n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. [?], prop., a handful, fr. [?] to grasp. Cf. {Drachm}, {Drachma}.] 1. A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains. 2. A minute quantity; a mite. Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing. --Milton. 3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. --Shak. 4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69. {Fluid dram}, [or] {Fluid drachm}. See under {Fluid}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fluid \Flu"id\, n. A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term is sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism, as in phrases electric fluid, magnetic fluid, though not strictly appropriate. {Fluid dram}, [or] {Fluid drachm}, a measure of capacity equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce. {Fluid ounce}. (a) In the United States, a measure of capacity, in apothecaries' or wine measure, equal to one sixteenth of a pint or 29.57 cubic centimeters. This, for water, is about 1.04158 ounces avoirdupois, or 455.6 grains. (b) In England, a measure of capacity equal to the twentieth part of an imperial pint. For water, this is the weight of the avoirdupois ounce, or 437.5 grains. {Fluids of the body}. (Physiol.) The circulating blood and lymph, the chyle, the gastric, pancreatic, and intestinal juices, the saliva, bile, urine, aqueous humor, and muscle serum are the more important fluids of the body. The tissues themselves contain a large amount of combined water, so much, that an entire human body dried in vacuo with a very moderate degree of heat gives about 66 per cent of water. {Burning fluid}, {Elastic fluid}, {Electric fluid}, {Magnetic fluid}, etc. See under {Burning}, {Elastic}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fluidrachm \Flu"i*drachm`\, n. See {Fluid dram}, under {Fluid}. --Pharm. of the U. S. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fluohydric \Flu`o*hy"dric\, a. [Fluo- + hydrogen.] (Chem.) See {Hydrofluoric}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fluter \Flut"er\, n. 1. One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist. 2. One who makes grooves or flutings. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flutter \Flut"ter\, v. t. 1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flutter \Flut"ter\, n. 1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan. The chirp and flutter of some single bird --Milnes. . 2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder. --Pope. {Flutter wheel}, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flutter \Flut"ter\, n. 1. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan. The chirp and flutter of some single bird --Milnes. . 2. Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder. --Pope. {Flutter wheel}, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flutterer \Flut"ter*er\, n. One who, or that which, flutters. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flutteringly \Flut"ter*ing*ly\, adv. In a fluttering manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
3. A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. --B. Jonson. 4. A parasite. [Obs.] --Massinger. 5. A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.] 6. The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the [bd]union[b8] to the extreme end. 7. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows. 8. (Naut.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. --Totten. 9. (Mech.) (a) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock. (b) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See {Fly wheel} (below). 10. (Knitting Machine) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch. --Knight. 11. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn. 12. (Weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk. --Knight. 13. (a) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press. (b) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work. 14. The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place. 15. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater. 16. The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons. 17. (Baseball) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly. {Black fly}, {Cheese fly}, {Dragon fly, etc.} See under {Black}, {Cheese}, etc. -- {Fly agaric} (Bot.), a mushroom ({Agaricus muscarius}), having a narcotic juice which, in sufficient quantities, is poisonous. -- {Fly block} (Naut.), a pulley whose position shifts to suit the working of the tackle with which it is connected; -- used in the hoisting tackle of yards. -- {Fly board} (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly. -- {Fly book}, a case in the form of a book for anglers' flies. --Kingsley.{Fly cap}, a cap with wings, formerly worn by women. -- {Fly drill}, a drill having a reciprocating motion controlled by a fly wheel, the driving power being applied by the hand through a cord winding in reverse directions upon the spindle as it rotates backward and forward. --Knight.{Fly fishing}, the act or art of angling with a bait of natural or artificial flies. --Walton.{Fly flap}, an implement for killing flies. -- {Fly governor}, a governor for regulating the speed of an engine, etc., by the resistance of vanes revolving in the air. -- {Fly honeysuckle} (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus ({Lonicera}), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pairs, as {L. ciliata} and {L. Xylosteum}. -- {Fly hook}, a fishhook supplied with an artificial fly. -- {Fly leaf}, an unprinted leaf at the beginning or end of a book, circular, programme, etc. -- {Fly maggot}, a maggot bred from the egg of a fly. --Ray. {Fly net}, a screen to exclude insects. {Fly nut} (Mach.), a nut with wings; a thumb nut; a finger nut. {Fly orchis} (Bot.), a plant ({Ophrys muscifera}), whose flowers resemble flies. {Fly paper}, poisoned or sticky paper for killing flies that feed upon or are entangled by it. {Fly powder}, an arsenical powder used to poison flies. {Fly press}, a screw press for punching, embossing, etc., operated by hand and having a heavy fly. {Fly rail}, a bracket which turns out to support the hinged leaf of a table. {Fly rod}, a light fishing rod used in angling with a fly. {Fly sheet}, a small loose advertising sheet; a handbill. {Fly snapper} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Phainopepla nitens}), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. {Fly wheel} (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See {Fly}, n., 9. {On the fly} (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flytrap \Fly"trap\, n. 1. A trap for catching flies. 2. (Bot.) A plant {(Dion[91]a muscipula)}, called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fold \Fold\, n. [OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.] 1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. --Milton. 2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold. There shall be one fold and one shepherd. --John x. 16. The very whitest lamb in all my fold. --Tennyson. 3. A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] --Creech. {Fold yard}, an inclosure for sheep or cattle. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Folder \Fold"er\, n. One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Folderol \Fol"de*rol`\, n. Nonsense. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foliature \Fo"li*a*ture\, n. [L. foliatura foliage.] 1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] --Shuckford. 2. The state of being beaten into foil. --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Foulder \Foul"der\, v. i. [OE. fouldre lightning, fr. F. foudre, OF. also fouldre, fr. L. fulgur. See {Fulgor}.] To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. [Obs.] [bd]Flames of fouldering heat.[b8] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full \Full\, a. [Compar. {Fuller}; superl. {Fullest}.] [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. [?], Skr. p[?]rna full, pr[?] to fill, also to Gr. [?] much, E. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. [root]80. Cf. {Complete}, {Fill}, {Plenary}, {Plenty}.] 1. Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. --Blackstone. 2. Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture. 3. Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon. It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. --Gen. xii. 1. The man commands Like a full soldier. --Shak. I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted. --Ford. 4. Sated; surfeited. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. --Is. i. 11. 5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. --Bacon. 6. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. --Locke. 7. Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. --Lowell. 8. Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.] Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. --Dryden. {At full}, when full or complete. --Shak. {Full age} (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. --Abbott. {Full and by} (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. {Full band} (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. {Full binding}, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. {Full bottom}, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. {Full} {brother [or] sister}, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. {Full cry} (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. {Full dress}, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. {Full hand} (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. {Full moon}. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. {Full organ} (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. {Full score} (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. {Full sea}, high water. {Full swing}, free course; unrestrained liberty; [bd]Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings.[b8] South (Colloq.) {In full}, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. {In full blast}. See under {Blast}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Full-drive \Full`-drive"\, adv. With full speed. [Colloq.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Flat River, MO (city, FIPS 24490) Location: 37.85350 N, 90.51666 W Population (1990): 4823 (2086 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Flat Rock, AL Zip code(s): 35966 Flat Rock, IL (village, FIPS 26350) Location: 38.90440 N, 87.67250 W Population (1990): 421 (180 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62427 Flat Rock, IN Zip code(s): 47234 Flat Rock, MI (city, FIPS 28360) Location: 42.10180 N, 83.27293 W Population (1990): 7290 (2829 housing units) Area: 17.4 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48134 Flat Rock, NC (CDP, FIPS 23640) Location: 36.50696 N, 80.58321 W Population (1990): 1812 (795 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28731 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fall through v. (n. `fallthrough', var. `fall-through') 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e., by having fulfilled its exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition that exits from the middle of it. This usage appears to be _really_ old, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. 2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a subroutine or some other distant portion of code. 3. In C, `fall-through' occurs when the flow of execution in a switch statement reaches a `case' label other than by jumping there from the switch header, passing a point where one would normally expect to find a `break'. A trivial example: switch (color) { case GREEN: do_green(); break; case PINK: do_pink(); /* FALL THROUGH */ case RED: do_red(); break; default: do_blue(); break; } The variant spelling `/* FALL THRU */' is also common. The effect of the above code is to `do_green()' when color is `GREEN', `do_red()' when color is `RED', `do_blue()' on any other color other than `PINK', and (and this is the important part) `do_pink()' _and then_ `do_red()' when color is `PINK'. Fall-through is {considered harmful} by some, though there are contexts (such as the coding of state machines) in which it is natural; it is generally considered good practice to include a comment highlighting the fall-through where one would normally expect a break. See also {Duff's device}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
filter n. [very common; orig. {{Unix}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a `pipeline' (see {plumbing}). Compare {sponge}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
flytrap n. [rare] See {firewall machine}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fall through also common) 1. To exit a loop by exhaustion, i.e. by having fulfilled its exit condition rather than via a break or exception condition that exits from the middle of it. This usage appears to be *really* old, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. 2. To fail a test that would have passed control to a subroutine or some other distant portion of code. 3. In C, "fall-through" occurs when the flow of execution in a {switch statement} reaches a "case" label other than by jumping there from the switch header, passing a point where one would normally expect to find a "break". A trivial example: switch (colour) { case GREEN: do_green(); break; case PINK: do_pink(); /* FALL THROUGH */ case RED: do_red(); break; default: do_blue(); break; } The effect of the above code is to "do_green()" when colour is "GREEN", "do_red()" when colour is "RED", "do_blue()" on any other colour other than "PINK", and (and this is the important part) "do_pink()" *and then* "do_red()" when colour is "PINK". Fall-through is {considered harmful} by some, though there are contexts (such as the coding of state machines) in which it is natural; it is generally considered good practice to include a comment highlighting the fall-through where one would normally expect a break. See also {Duff's Device}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fall thru (1996-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
fault tree analysis safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures. (1996-05-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
file transfer over a computer {network}. See also {File Transfer Protocol}, {Kermit}, {Network File System}, {rcp}, {uucp}, {XMODEM}, {ZMODEM}. (1997-04-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) A {client-server} protocol which allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a {TCP/IP} network. Also the client program the user executes to transfer files. It is defined in {STD 9}, {RFC 959}. See also {anonymous FTP}, {FSP}, {TFTP}. {Unix manual page}: ftp(1). (1994-12-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
filter 1. (Originally {Unix}, now also {MS-DOS}) A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a {pipeline} (see {plumbing}). Compare {sponge}. 2. ({functional programming}) A {higher-order function} which takes a {predicate} and a list and returns those elements of the list for which the predicate is true. In {Haskell}: filter p [] = [] filter p (x:xs) = if p x then x : rest else rest where rest = filter p xs See also {filter promotion}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
filter promotion In a generate and test algorithm, combining part of the filter with the generator in order to reduce the number of potential solutions generated. A trivial example: filter (< 100) [1..1000] ==> [1..99] where [1..n] generates the list of integers from 1 to n. Here the filter has been combined completely with the generator. This is an example of {fusion}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
flytrap {firewall machine} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
folder of computer {files}. The term is more common in systems such as the {Macintosh} or {Windows 95} which have a {graphical user interface} and provide a graphical {file browser} in which directories are traditionally depicted as folders (like small briefcases). (1997-03-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
full outer join {outer join} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fallow-deer Deut. 14:5 (R.V., "Wild goat"); 1 Kings 4:23 (R.V., "roebucks"). This animal, called in Hebrew _yahmur_, from a word meaning "to be red," is regarded by some as the common fallow-deer, the Cervus dama, which is said to be found very generally over Western and Southern Asia. It is called "fallow" from its pale-red or yellow colour. Some interpreters, however, regard the name as designating the bubale, Antelope bubale, the "wild cow" of North Africa, which is about the size of a stag, like the hartebeest of South Africa. A species of deer has been found at Mount Carmel which is called _yahmur_ by the Arabs. It is said to be similar to the European roebuck. |