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faceted
adj 1: having facets; "a faceted diamond" [ant: {unfaceted}]

English Dictionary: fictitious character	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
factitious adj not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
factoid n something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
factotum n a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fastidious adj giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" Antonym(s): unfastidious having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" Synonym(s): fastidious, exacting Antonym(s): unfastidious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fastidiously adv in a fastidious and painstaking manner; "it is almost a waste of time painstakingly to learn the routines of selling" Synonym(s): painstakingly, fastidiously in a fastidious manner; "he writes extremely musical music, of which the sound is fastidiously calculated and yet agreeably spontaneous and imaginative"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fastidiousness n the trait of being meticulous about matters of taste or style; "neatness and fastidiousness of dress"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fictitious adj formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" Synonym(s): fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" Synonym(s): assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fictitious character n an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel" Synonym(s): fictional character, fictitious character, character
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fictitious name n (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation Synonym(s): assumed name, fictitious name, Doing Business As, DBA
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fictitious place n a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings Synonym(s): imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fictitiously adv in a false manner intended to mislead in a fictional manner (created by the imagination)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fixed-width font n a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) Synonym(s): typewriter font, constant- width font, fixed-width font, monospaced font Antonym(s): proportional font
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facet \Fac"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Faceted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faceting}.] To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Faceted \Fac"et*ed\, a. Having facets.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factitious \Facti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See {Fact}, and cf. {Fetich}.] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- {Fac-ti"tiously}, adv. -- {Fac*ti"tious-ness}, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. --De Quincey. Syn: Unnatural. Usage: {Factitious}, {Unnatural}. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factitious \Facti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See {Fact}, and cf. {Fetich}.] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- {Fac-ti"tiously}, adv. -- {Fac*ti"tious-ness}, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. --De Quincey. Syn: Unnatural. Usage: {Factitious}, {Unnatural}. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factitious \Facti"tious\, a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See {Fact}, and cf. {Fetich}.] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- {Fac-ti"tiously}, adv. -- {Fac*ti"tious-ness}, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. --De Quincey. Syn: Unnatural. Usage: {Factitious}, {Unnatural}. Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factitive \Fac"ti*tive\ a. [See {Fact}.] 1. Causing; causative. 2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. --J. W. Gibbs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factotum \Fac*to"tum\, n.; pl. {Factotums} (-t[?]mz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See {Fact}, and {Total}.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factotum \Fac*to"tum\, n.; pl. {Factotums} (-t[?]mz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See {Fact}, and {Total}.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fagot \Fag"ot\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fagoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fagoting}.] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fasciate \Fas"ciate\, Fasciated \Fas"cia`ted\, a. [L. fasciatus, p. p. of fasciare to envelop with bands, fr. fascia band. See {Fasces}.] 1. Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage. 2. (Bot.) (a) Banded or compacted together. (b) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Broadly banded with color.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fasting}.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG. fast[emac]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth. fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.] 1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. --Milton. 2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam. xii. 21. {Fasting day}, a fast day; a day of fasting.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fastidiosity \Fastid`ios"i*ty\, n. Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fastidious \Fastid"ious\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. {Tedious}, {Fash}.] Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young. Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. Usage: {Fastidious}, {Squeamish}. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. [bd]Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.[b8] --Crabb. -- {Fastid"iously}, adv. -- {Fastid"iousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fastidious \Fastid"ious\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. {Tedious}, {Fash}.] Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young. Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. Usage: {Fastidious}, {Squeamish}. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. [bd]Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.[b8] --Crabb. -- {Fastid"iously}, adv. -- {Fastid"iousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fastidious \Fastid"ious\, a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. {Tedious}, {Fash}.] Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. --Young. Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. Usage: {Fastidious}, {Squeamish}. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. [bd]Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.[b8] --Crabb. -- {Fastid"iously}, adv. -- {Fastid"iousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feast \Feast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Feasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feasting}.] [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. f[88]ter to celebrate a holiday. See {Feast}, n.] 1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. --Job. i. 4. 2. To be highly gratified or delighted. With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fee \Fee\ (f[emac]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property, money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of [bd]property, money,[b8] arising from cattle being used in early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle, property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel. f[emac] cattle, property, money, Goth. fa[a1]hu, L. pecus cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pa[cced]u cattle, perh. orig., [bd]a fastened or tethered animal,[b8] from a root signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf. OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. [root]249. Cf. {Feud}, {Fief}, {Fellow}, {Pecuniary}.] 1. property; possession; tenure. [bd]Laden with rich fee.[b8] --Spenser. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. --Wordsworth. 2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc. To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. --Shak. 3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. 4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner. Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. --Blackstone. 5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. {Fee estate} (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord. {Fee farm} (Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. --Blackstone. {Fee farm rent} (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. {Fee fund} (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. {Fee simple} (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. --Shak. {Fee tail} (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. --Burill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fessitude \Fes"si*tude\, n. [L. fessus wearied, fatigued.] Weariness. [Obs.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Person \Per"son\, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See {Per-}, and cf. {Parson}.] 1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. [Archaic] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon. No man can long put on a person and act a part. --Jer. Taylor. To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. --Milton. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! --South. 2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. --Chaucer. If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. 3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. --Locke. 4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. 5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. [bd]Three persons and one God.[b8] --Bk. of Com. Prayer. 7. (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person. 8. (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. --Haeckel. True corms, composed of united person[91] . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit. {Artificial}, [or] {Fictitious}, {person} (Law), a corporation or body politic. --blackstone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fictitious \Ficti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. --Pope. -- {Ficti"tiously}, adv. -- {Ficti"tious*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fictitious \Ficti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. --Pope. -- {Ficti"tiously}, adv. -- {Ficti"tious*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fictitious \Ficti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. --Pope. -- {Ficti"tiously}, adv. -- {Ficti"tious*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fightwite \Fight"wite`\, n. [Fight + wite.] (O.Eng. Law) A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fist \Fist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fisting}.] 1. To strike with the fist. --Dryden. 2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fixidity \Fixid"ity\ (f[icr]ks[icr]d"[icr]t[ycr]), n. Fixedness. [Obs.] --Boyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foist \Foist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foisting}.] [Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist.] To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. --R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foistied \Foist"ied\, a. [See 2d {Fust}.] Fusty. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fucate \Fu"cate\, Fucated \Fu"ca*ted\a. [L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to color, paint, fr. fucus.] Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fusted \Fust"ed\, a. Moldy; ill-smelling. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fustet \Fus"tet\, n. [F. fustet (cf. Sp. & Pg. fustete), LL. fustetus, fr. L. fustis stick, in LL., tree, See {1st Fust}, and cf. {Fustic}.] The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. --Ure.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Fast ATA {Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Fast ATA-2 {Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Fast Ethernet A version of {Ethernet} developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 {Mbps} compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded {network cards} and {hubs}. The relevant standards are {100BaseT}, {100BaseFX} and {100BaseVG}. (1998-03-23)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fixed-width {record}