Old English | sp | English |
Frame | n | OE: progress, profit. 2. advantage, benefit. 3. timber construction fitted together. |
Frame | vb | To profit, be of service. 2. to gain ground, get on with; succeed. 3. to make ready for use; also, to furnish with. 4. to prepare timber for use in building; to form the carpenter work in building. 5. to shape, give shape, direction or expression to. 6. to shape one's course, resort to. 7. to adapt, adjust, fit to. 8. conform, fit in. 9. to construct, make, build (fitting together of parts; adaption to a design). 10. to contrive a plot, fabricate, compose, put in words. 11. to articulate. 12. form in the mind. 13. to bring to pass. 14. to enclose within a frame. 15. (slang) - as a comment on the body or physique of an exceptionally thin prostitute. |
Frame | phr | "Frame of Mind" - mental attitude. |
Frame | phr | "Frame Up" - to prearrange an event with sinister intent. 2. to fake the result of a race. 3. to make or concoct a false charge against. 4. to enclose within a frame. 5. to serve as a frame for. |
Frame-breaker | n | One of those who resisted with violence the introduction of frames for weaving stockings; a Luddite, troglodyte. |
Frame-dragging | n | In physics) the bending out of shape and time near a rotating body, as predicted by general relativity. |
Frame-house | n | A house constructed with a wooden framework covered with boards. |
Framer | n | One who frames. |
Frameless | adj | Without or lacking a frame. |
Frame-up | n | To prearrange an event with sinister intent. 2. to fake the result of a race. 3. to make or concoct a false charge against. 4. arrest or conviction based on falsified evidence. 5. to enclose within a frame. 6. to serve as a frame for. |
Framework | n | A structure composed of parts framed or fitted together. 2. a frame or skeleton. 3. work done or with a frame. |
Framing | n | The action, method or process of constructing, making or shaping anything. 2. framed work; a frame, a set or system of frames. |
Frank | n | One of the Germanic nation, or group of nations, that overran Gaul in the C6th, thus giving the country the name France; (the name it is suggested is from their weapon, "franka" -javelin. 3. in parts of the Near East name given to a person of Western nationality. |
Frank | adj | Belonging to, having characteristics or customs of the Franks. |
Frankish | adj | Belonging or pertaining to the western (European) nations. 2. language(s) spoken by the Franks. |
Freak | n | A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. (UK dialectal, a fellow; a petulant, young man. "sudden change of mind, whim", OE : frecaof uncertain origin, perhaps Old English frician (“to leap, dance”), or from Old English frec (“desirous, greedy, eager, bold, daring”), Old English frēcne (“dangerous, daring, courageous, bold”). 3. a sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. 4. someone or something that is markedly unusual. 5. a hippie. 6. a drug addict. 7 .(of a person) a nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way. 6.(bodybuilding or sport) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds); a footballer with amazing a ability and skill. 7. an enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something. 8.(informal, sometimes affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual. |
Freak | vb | To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance. 2. to be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug. 3. to streak; to variegate. 4. to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use. 5. to react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure |
Freak | adj | Strange, weird |
Freak | phr | "Freak Out"- to lose control, panic. 2. move into a heightened or depressed state of mind(often because of drug taking) |
Freakish | adj | Resembling a freak. 2. strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre. 3. capricious or unpredictable. |
Freakishly | adv | In a freakish manner. |
Freakishness | n | The character or quality of being frank. |
Freak show | n | An intentionally shocking exhibition of people with unusual characteristics, and which may include people who are gigantic, dwarfish, intersexed, physically deformed or with extraordinary diseases, conditions or talents. |
Freaky | adj | Resembling a freak. 2. odd, bizarre, unusual. 3. scary, frightening. 4. sexually deviant. |
Freck | vb | To be desirous, eager, ready. 2. to be strong, show strength, be vigorous. |
Freck | adj | Frack, desirous, eager, quick, ready. 2. lusty, strong, vigorous. |
Freckly | adv | With desirous, eagerly, quickly, readily. 2. lustily, strongly, vigorously. |
Free | adj | Unconstrained. 2. not imprisoned or enslaved; as a free man. 2. unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative. 3. generous; liberal. 4. (obsolete) clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent. 5. without obligations. 6.thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed. 7. not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
8.(software) with no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. 9.(software) intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. 10. obtainable without any payment. 11. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else. 12. unconstrained. 13. unobstructed, without blockages. 13. unattached or uncombined. 14. not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. 15. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose. 16. without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. 16.(dated) ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited. 17.(dated) invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunity or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of. 18.(UK, law, obsolete) certain or honourable; the opposite of base. free service; free socage. 19. privileged or individual; the opposite of common. |
Free | adv | Without needing to pay. 2.(obsolete) freely; willingly. 3. (informal, without needing to pay): for free, for nothing. |
Free | vb | To make free; set at liberty; release. 2. rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses. |
Free | sfx | Without having to pay. 2. without, as 'dust-free'. 3. lacking, as 'cloud-free'. |
Free | phr | "Feel Free" - do not hesitate, do as one please. |
Free | phr | "For Free" - free of charge; gratis. |
Free | phr | "Free and Easy" - relaxed, informal; morally lax. 2. unhampered by responsibilities. |
Free | phr | "Free as a Bird" - without ties, duties, obligations. |
Free | phr | "Free As the Wind" - completely free. |
Free | phr | "Free Fight" - group fighting, or a struggling or quarreling, of a disorganized or rowdy manner. |
Free | phr | "Free From (Something)" - without, not having, something (as a desirable condition). 2. make free, independent of. |
Free | phr | "Free of Something" - exempt or released from something, usually compulsory or normally present. |
Free | phr | "Free on Board" - used of goods delivered on board ship or into a conveyance at the seller's expense. |
Free | phr | "Free Up" - do work or a task for someone. 2. to make them available for something. |
Free | phr | "Free With One's Hands" - prone to hit or fight, others with whom one is in disagreement with or whom one wishes to control or subdue. 2. prone to touch, fondle, others in a way likely to be resented. |
Free | phr | "Get Free Of" - to be without |
Free | phr | "Have/ Give Free Hand to - unrestricted authority. 2. to authorize a person to act as he sees fit. |
Free | phr | "Make Free With" - make use of somebody else's property. |
Free bench | n | A widow's right to dower from her husband's property. |
Free-birther | n | A woman who chooses to give birth without medical assistance or the attendance of a midwife. |
Free-birthing | n | Unassisted childbirth; giving birth without medical assistance and the attendance of a midwife. |
Free-board | n | The part of a ship's side between the waterline and deck. 2. the distance between the maximum permitted water level in a reservoir behind a dam and the top of the dam wall. |
Free-boot | vb | To pillage, plunder, wage war on needs basis against other nations or groups. |
Freebooter | n | An adventurer who pillage or plunder on a ad hoc basis: pirate, filibuster, mercenary. |
Freebooting | n | Piracy, plunder, booty. 2. an unauthorized re-hosting on another media. |
Freebooting | adj | Engaged in plunder or piracy |
Freebooty | n | That which is pillaged, plundered. 2. the plunder taken in piracy and during plundering. |
Freeborn | adj | Born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, vassalage. |
Free-climbing | adj | Rock climbing without the assistance of devices, such as pegs to put into the rocks, but occasionally using ropes and belays. |
Free-diving | n | A form of underwater diving that relies on the divers ability to hold their breath until resurfacing, rather than on the use of breathing apparatus. |
Freedman | n | A slave who has been freed. |
Freedom | n | The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved. 2. the lack of a specific constraint. or of constraints in general. 3. frankness, openness, unreserved. 4. improper familiarity. 5. violation of rites of decorum. |
Freedom | phr | "Freedom From" - free from an object or condition, such as fear, hunger, pain, disease, poverty, etc. |
Freedom | phr | "Freedom of Speech" - the right of citizens to speak, communicate, without fear or harm of persecution. |
Freedom | phr | "Freedom of the Seas" - exemption from seizure at sea in war, by armed vessels of belligerents, of all private property of neutrals except contraband of war. |
Freedom-fighter | n | A person involved in armed conflict against an occupation or repressive government. 2. a revolutionary, insurgent, rebel or insurrectionist. |
Free-hand | n | Unrestricted authority to act. 2. made without the aid of drawing equipment. |
Freedom-ride | n | (US, politics, historical) In the United States in 1961, any one of a number of trips taken by bus or other forms of transport through parts of the southern U.S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation. 2. (Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians. |
Freedom-rider | n | Civil-rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern US in the 1960s. |
Free-edge | n | The part of the nail, such as a fingernail or toenail, that extends past the flesh of the finger or toe. |
Free-fall | n | Any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon something. |
Free fight | n | Group figting , or struggling or quarreling, of a disorganized and rowdy kind. |
Free float | n | In stock trading, a term describing the proportion of shares of a publicly traded company that is traded on the stock market. |
Free float | vb | In stock trading, the proportion of shares of a publicly traded company that is traded on the stock market. |
Free-for-all | n | Contest in which everyone has an equal chance. |
Freehand | adj | Drawn with the hand without any helping device. |
Freehand | vb | To conduct a procedure involving the using of the hands without any helping device or guide. |
Free-handed | adj | Anything done with the hand only, free from any mechanical or other help. |
Free-hearted | adj | Kind, generous, willing to help others, compassionate. 2. liberal. |
Free-heartedly | adv | Any act done in a generous, kind and willing manner. |
Freehold | n | The tenure of property held in fee simple for life. |
Freehold | adj | Tenured property held in fee simple for life. |
Freeholder | n | One who holds a tenure of property in fee simple for life. |
Free house | n | A public house or hotel that is not owned or managed by a brewery company, and therefore cannot stock a range of beer from several other brewers; (opposite of 'tied-house') |
Free-liver | n | One who gratifies his appetites without stint. 2. one given to indulgence in living and life style. |
Free-living | n | Indulging in pleasures, esp. that of eating. 2. living freely and independently, not attached to a substrate. |
Freeload | vb | To act as a freeloader. |
Freeloader | n | Someone who makes no contribution to an event of which he is taking advantage. 2. a peron who eats and drinks at expense of others; a sponger. |
Freeloading | n | The act of making no contribution to an event of which he is taking advantage. 2. the practice of one who eats and drinks at expense of others. |
Free-love | n | Sexual relations by choice and unrestricted by marriage. 2. freedom to love and live with a man or woman of one's choice without being bound by marriage ties. |
Free-lover | n | One who has sexual relations by choice and unrestricted by marriage |
Freely | adj | Free, frank. 2. generous, noble, excellent, beautifully, lovely. |
Freely | adv | In a friendly manner. 2. without reference or restriction. 3. of one's own free will. 4. frankly, openly, costlessly. |
Freeman | n | A person who is not a serf or slave. 2. archaic: a person awarded or inherited his freedom, with certain priveleges, from a borough or city. |
Free-minded | adj | Open-minded; unworried. |
Freeness | n | State or condition of being free. |
Freer | n | One who frees or sets free. |
Free-ride | n | (idiom) - an opportunity or benefit which has no cost; esp. one enjoyed or undertaken at the expense of others. |
Free-rider | n | Someone who obtains goods and services legally without paying. 2. one who o/w obtains benefit from a public good without paying for it. 2. an individual who refuses to join a union (where there is no closed shop agreement) is able to benefit from whatever wage agreements are negotiated by that union. |
Free ship | n | A ship belonging to a neutral power, and hence free from liability , to seizure in time of war. |
Free shot | n | A shot with one point, taken from a free throw line and without opposition. |
Free software | n | Software that can be copied, redistributed and modified including source code. 2. any software that is free of charge; freeware. |
Free speech | n | The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censured. 2. the right to express anything, anywhere without any consequences whatsoever. |
Free-spoken | adj | To readily speak freely and plainly. |
Free-spokenness | n | The quality and abilty to speak freely and openly. |
Freestanding | adj | Not attached to or supported by another structure. 2. not relying on or linked to anything else; independent. |
Free-stone | n | A type of stone that is comprised of small particles and easily shaped, such as limestone or sandstone. 2. a stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of flesh. 2. a cling-stone. |
Free swimmer | n | A fish that swims near the surface. |
Free swimming | n | Swimming freely, as an aquatic animal; said especially ofcertain organisms that are attached or immovable during other stagesof their development. |
Free-thinker | n | A person who has formed their opinion using reasons and rational enquiry. 2. someone who has rejected dogma, esp with regard to religion. |
Free-thinking | n | A philosophy refusing to submit reason to the control of authority in matters of religious belief; a designation claimed esp. by the deistic and other references in Christianity in the early C18th. |
Free-thought | n | The principles of a freethinker and free-thinking. |
Free-throw | n | An unimpeded throw award to a basketball player following a foul. |
Free-time | n | Time that can be spent on one's own activities, rather than work. 2. leisure, leisure-time, spare-time. |
Free-tongued | adj | Free-spoken. |
Free-to-play | adj | (Of a video) that may be played with out payment. |
Freeware | n | In computing complete and functional software, that does not require payment or other compensation. |
Free water | n | Soil water in excess of that absorbed by the soil; also called gravity water. |
Freeway | n | A road designed for safe high-speed motoring. |
Freewheel | vb | Of a cycle to ride a bike without pedaling, as downhill. 2. of a motorist to operate a vehicle which is coasting woithut power, as downhill. 3. by extension- to free from constraints. |
Free-will | n | A person's natural inclination, unforced choice. 2. the ability to choose one's actions, or determine what reasons one acceptable motivation for actions, without predestination, fate. |
Free-willer | n | A contemptous term for one who believes in the doctrine of free will. |
Free world | n | A Cold War era propaganda word for the non-communist countries. |
Free writing | n | Free writing is a prewriting technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism. It is used mainly by prose writers and writing teachers. Some writers use the technique to collect initial thoughts and ideas on a topic, often as a preliminary to formal writing. |
Freeze | n | A period of intensely cold weather. 2. a halt of a regular operation. 3.(computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. 4. a precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out. 5. specifically, in finance: block on pay. |
Freeze | vb | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. 2. to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. 3. to drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. 4. to be affected by extreme cold. 5. to become motionless. 6.(fig.) to lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize. 7. to cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. 8. to prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets. 9. to become solid: solidify; become solid due to low temperature. |
Freeze | phr | "Deep Freeze"- a weather pattern consisting of snow and ice. |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze Dry" - to remove volatile liquid from a substance by sublimation (normally under vacuum) |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze Off" - keep at a distance by being too unfriendly or remote; drive away. |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze On to" - hold on to tightly. |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze Out" - socially to forcibly remove or exclude. 2. prevent from doing business by boycotting goods etc, exclude from society by unfriendly behavior. 3. forcibly remove or freeze some out physically and/or emotionally. |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze Over" - to freeze or become covered by ice on the surface. 2. (fig.) to become emotional blank and icy |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze to Death" - die through exposure to extreme cold. |
Freeze | phr | "Freeze Up" - to come to a sudden halt. 2. to become cold and formal in demeanor. 2. a section of a fridge used to store and other perishable items. |
Freeze-dry | vb | Freeze and dry by the sublimation of ice in a high vacuum. |
Freeze-frame | n | A device whereby the action on film appears to freeze into a still; accomplished by printing one frame a number of times. ' |
Freezer | n | An appliance, refrigerator, or room (cooler) used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0 Celsius (32 F). |
Freeze-up | n | A period of extreme cold, with ice and snow. |
Freezing | n | The change in the state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. 2. the action of numbing with anesthetics. |
Freezing | adj | (Lit.) suffering or causing frost. 2. by extension - chiefly hyperbolic, very cold, icy, ice-cold. |
Freezingly | adv | In a way that is freezing. 2. with intense cold. 3. (fig.) - with intense emotional coldness; dispassionately. |
Freezingness | n | The state or condition of being freezing. |
Freezing works | n | A place where animals are slaughtered and the carcasses are frozen for export. |
Freezy | adj | Chilled almost to freezing. |
Fremd | n | Foreigner, stranger, enemy. |
Fremd | adj | Foreign, strange. 2. wild, not tame. 3. unfriendly. 4. not related, not sib or kin. |
French | n | A Romance language spoken primarily in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and former French colonies around the world. 2. the French people collectively |
French | adj | Relating or pertaining to France and the French language. |
French kiss | n | A kiss where one person inserts their tongue in other mouth. |
French kiss | vb | To kiss a person while inserting one's tongue in his or her mouth. |
French-leave | n | A sudden and unannounced departure. 2. leave taken without permission. |
French-like | adj | Resembling the French in their customs, language. |
French-window | n | An outside door with glass panes, serving as window or door. |
Fresh | adj | Sweet, fresh, tasteless. 2. newly produced or obtained. 2. not cooked, dried, frozen, not from storage, or spoiled. 3. (of plant material) still green and not dried. 4. refreshing or cool. 5.(of water) without salt; not saline. 6. rested; not tired or fatigued. 7. in a raw or untried state; inexperienced, uncultured. 8.youthful; florid. 9. rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. 10. sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious |
Fresh | n | A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood. 2. a stream or spring of fresh water. 3. the mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. |
Fresh | phr | "Fresh as a Daisy" - very fresh |
Fresh | phr | "Fresh off the Boat" - a derogatory term for a newly arrived person from a foreign place, esp. an immigrant who is still unfamiliar in the customs and language of his or her environment. |
Fresh | phr | "Make a Fresh Start" - make a second or subsequent, attempt to do in which former materials or arrangements are discarded or adapted. |
Fresh-blood | n | Newly joined members of some organization. |
Freshen | vb | To become fresh. 2. to make fresh. 3. of a cow- to begin or resume giving milk, esp. after calving. 4. to make less salty. 5. to separate, as water, from saline ingredients. 5. to refresh, revive. 6. to top up a drink. |
Freshen | phr | "Freshen Up" - wash, shave to feel freshen after a long journey. 2. the action or an act of making something fresh; to fresh up. |
Freshener | n | Something that freshens |
Fresher | n | A fresh breeze. |
Freshening | adj | The act by which something is freshened. |
Freshers' week | n | The week before the academic year of a university begins, usually a time of partying by the students |
Freshing | n | Newly obtained or obtained fresh footprints. |
Freshling | n | Freshly grown. 2. an inexperienced person; a neophyte. |
Freshly | adv | Recently, newly. 2. in a rude or imperfect manner. |
Freshly | adj | Unimpaired. |
Freshman | n | Tyro, raw recruit, newcomer. 2. a novice, one in the rudiments of knowledge. 3. a person of either sex entering the first year of a institution, esp. a university. |
Freshmanship | n | The state or condition of being a freshman. 2. the time or period during which one is a freshman. 3. the personality and characteristics of a freshman. |
Fresh meat | n | A person or group of person who arouses one's interest on interest, either as a new target for deception, humiliation or ridicule;; or as a potential love interest or one night stand. 2. slang. a new sexual partner, esp. a virgin or a person who is sexually inexperienced. 3. any newcomer. |
Freshness | adj | State or quality of being fresh. |
Fresh-new | adj | Unpracticed. |
Fresh-run | n | A fish,esp. a salmon, that runs up a river from the sea. |
Freshwater | n | A body of freshwater, as opposed to seawater. 2. naturally occurring water on the earth's surface in ice sleets, glaciers, icebers, onds, lakes, rivers, streams and underground streams. It is generally characterized by low concentrations of dissolved salts and other totally dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. It is also known as 'sweet water'. |
Freshwater | adj | Living in freshwater. 2. unskilled of a seaman. |
Freshwater flea | n | Daphnia. |
Fresh-watered | adj | Unskilled, raw. |
Fret | vb | (Obsolete/poetic) To devour, consume; eat. 2. to gnaw, consume, eat away. 3. to be worn away; to chafe; to fray. 4. to chafe or irritate; to worry. 5. to worry or be anxious. 6. to be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. 7. to make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple. to fret the surface of water 8. to be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle. 9.(music) To press down the string behind a fret. |
Fret | phr | "To Fret the Heart" - to be gnaw or vexed by constant worry and regret. |
Fretful | adj | Full of worry, regret, discontent and anxiety. |
Fretfully | adv | In a fretful manner. |
Fretfulness | n | The quality or sate of being full of worry or regret, anxiety, discontent. |
Fretless | adj | Describing a string instrument that does not have frets. |
Fretman | n | A guitar player, esp. one have plays acoustic guitar. |
Fretted | adj | Decorated with fretwork. 2. irritate, peeved, annoyed. |
Fretter | n | One who worries or distresses themselves by constant regret. |
Fretting | n | The action or condition of being vexed, worried and distressed. |
Fretty | adj | Heraldry covered with narrow bands interlacing saltirewise. 2. fretful, irritable, peevish. |
Fretwork | n | Ornamental designed in wood, typically open work done with a fretsaw. |
Fretworked | adj | Decorated with fretwork. |
Friday | n | The fifth day of the week. |
Friday | phr | "Black Friday" - a Friday falling on the 13th day of the month, and therefore doubly ill of omen. 2. any Friday darkened by catastrophe. 3. an anniversary of a number of catastrophes or unfortunate historical events originally occurring on a Friday. |
Friday | phr | "Good Friday" - the Friday before Easter Sunday, believed by Christians to be the day Jesus Christ was crucified. |
Friday | phr | "He who Laughs on Friday Will Weep on Sunday" - sorrow follows in the wake of joy. |
Friday | phr | "Friday the Thirteenth" - a conjunction of day and date thought to be unlucky and likely to be avoided by superstitious persons when arranging or doing something. |
Friday | phr | "Long Friday" - good Friday was so called by the Saxons, probably because of the long fasts associated with that day. |
Friday | n | "Man Friday" - general assistant or mate. |
Friend | n | A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. 2. a boyfriend, girlfriend, lover. 3. an associate who provides assistance; an ally. 4. a person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted, an acquaintance. 5. person who backs or supports something; (person who backs something): admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter. 6.(informal) an object or idea that can be used for good. 7.(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative). 8.(computing, programming) in object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class. 9. (obsolete) a paramour of either sex, a lover. 10. (person whose company one enjoys): buddy, chum, mate, pal, crony, amigo, bro. 11. for words ending in 'end' see: fiend, halend, healend (healer, Christ, shapend (The Creator), akennend (parent), stigend (Christ, the Resurrected). |
Friend | vb | To act as a friend. 2. to befriend, to be friendly, to help. 2. to add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site. 3. to officially designate someone as a friend. |
Friend | phr | "Friend in Need, Friend in Indeed" - a friend who helps one when one needs help (as a true friend). 2. a dependable friend. |
Friend | phr | "Friend of Man' - the dog. |
Friend | phr | "Friend of Mine" - ('instead of ours') - refers only to a personal friend who may not be a member of another (Mafia family), but who none of the ties 'ours' implies. |
Friend | phr | "Friend of Ours" - in the US Mafia a member of one of the US families. |
Friend | phr | "Friend or Foe" - allies and/or enemies. |
Friend | phr | "Friends of the Earth" - an organization found in Great Britain to campaign for the protection of he environment. |
Friend | phr | "Keep Friends with" - remain friendly with. |
Friend | phr | "Make Friends With" - to be friendly to others; become closely acquainted with. |
Friend | phr | "My Learned Friend" - usedby a lawyer in court to refer to another lawyer. |
Friend | phr | "Our Dumb Friends" - animals; our pets. |
Friend | phr | "Your Friend and Mine" - somebody we both know and like. |
Friend-foe | n | A person who is both a friend and enemy; an enemy who appears to be a friend. |
Friending | n | The act of adding someone to a list of 'friends' on a social networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship. |
Friendish | adj | Like or relating to a friend. |
Friendless | adj | Destitute of friends. 2. devoid of friendship. |
Friendleesly | adv | Without a friend; in a friendless manner. |
Friendlessness | n | The quality of being friendly. 2. affability. 3. geniality. 4. pleasantry. |
Friendlike | n | Resembling or characteristic of friendship. |
Friendlily | adv | In a friendly manner. 2. like a friend, warmly, cordially, kindly. |
Friendliness | n | Without or devoid of friends. |
Friendly | adj | Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. 2. inviting, characteristic of friendliness. 3. having an easy relationship with something, as in user-friendly etc. 4. without any hostility. 5. promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious. 6.(military) of or pertaining to friendlies. |
Friendly | adv | Amicably, affectionately, genially, kindly, cordially. |
Friendly-fiendly | adj | Partly friendly and partly hostile and unfriendly. |
Friendly-fire | n | Weapons fire from (allied or friendly)forces, as opposed to fire coming from foes or enemy forces or fire. 2. firing by ones own side aimed, unwittingly, at one's own troops. |
Friendly-ice | n | (military) - the polar ice cap or canopy is 'friendly' when it offers good 'skylights' for a submarine to surface occasionally. ('Unfriendly Ice': when the ice seals the icecap completely) |
Friendly-match | n | An exhibition game (of football, soccer, tennis, basketball, etc.) often for promotion purposes. |
Friendness | n | A comfortable and pleasant atmosphere of generosity and tenderness. |
Friendrede | n | Friendship. |
Friends | n | The Quakers or 'Society of Friends" |
Friendship | n | The condition of being a friend. 2. a friendly relationship or relationship as friends. 3. goodwill. |
Friendship | phr | "Love is Friendship on Fire" - metaphor of love. |
Friendship bench | n | A special place in a school play-yard where a pupil can go when they want to talk to someone; a buddy bench. |
Friendshipless | adj | Devoid of friendship. |
Friendship-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of friendship. |
Friendworthy | adj | trustworthy, friendly, reliable. 2. worthy, capable of deserving of friendship; suitable as friend. |
Friendy | adj | Friendly. |
Fright | n | A state of terror, excited by the sudden appearance of danger or violent fear. 2. anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing alarm or aversion. |
Fright | vb | To frighten (archaic). |
Fright | phr | "Take Fright" - be frightened. |
Frighten | vb | To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright. 2. to affright, to terrify. |
Frighten | phr | "Frighten Away" - frighten, thus causing to stay away or go away. 2. frighten off. |
Frighten | phr | "Frighten Hell Out off" - to alarm a person. |
Frighten | phr | "Frighten Into" - cause someone to do something out of fear, by means of threats or terror. |
Frighten | phr | "Frighten Out of One's Wits" - panic stricken. |
Frighten | phr | "Frighten the Horses" - to scare people off by one ill-considered tactics. |
Frighten | phr | "Frighten to Death" - frighten very severely. |
Frightener | n | A person or thing that frightens someone. 2. a member of a criminal gang who intimidates its victims. |
Frightening | adj | Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 2. (fig.) very bad, awful, terrible. |
Frighteningly | adv | In a way that makes you feel afraid or nervous. 2. used as emphasizer. 3. what are you saying. |
Frightful | adj | Full of fright, affrighted, frightened. 2. full of thet which causes fright, excites alarm, impresses terror. 2. shocking, dreadful, awful, horrible etc. |
Frightfully | adv | In a frightful manner. 2. as one who emphasizes: very, extremely frightful. |
Frightfulness | n | The quality of being frightful, as causing fright, exciting alarm, terrifying, shocking. |
Frightihead | n | Frightihood, fright, fear (obs). |
Frightless | adj | Free from fright, fearless. |
Frightsome | adj | Frightening, frightful, fearful, causing fear. |
Frighty | adj | Afraid. |
Frim | adj | Vigorous, flourishing, plump. 2. abundant in sap, juicy, abundant. 3. soluble, fusible. |
Frith | n | Peace, security, protection from harm. 2. a reserve or park for deer or other animals |
Frith | n | A wood, wood country, tract, region. 2. an area of land covered with sparse vegetation. 3. pasture unused. 4. brushwood, undergrowth. 4. a hedge; a hurdle |
Frithborgh | n | Frankpledge? |
Frithbote | n | A fine and or compensation paid for the breach of the peace in Anglo-saxon times. |
Frithsoken | n | A palace of safety, asylum, a sanctuary. |
Frithstool | n | A sanctuary. 2. a seat, usually stone, formerly found in some churches offering sanctuary. |
Frog | n | A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. 2. the part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player. 3.(cockney rhyming slang) road. -from (frog and toad). 4. the depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick. 5. an organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood. 6. the part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof) 7. an oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole. 8. the loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword. |
Frog | vb | To hunt or trap frogs. |
Frog | phr | "Frog and Toad" - Australian rhyming slang for 'road' |
Frog | phr | "Frog in One's Throat"- to be hoarse. |
Frog | phr | "Leap Frog Something" - to overtake something,with the likelihood of in turn being overtaken. |
Frog-eater | n | One who eats frogs; a vulgar term for someone french. |
Frogginess | n | The state or quality of being like a frog. |
Froggish | adj | Some or rather like or resembling a frog. |
Froggy | n | A jocular name for a frog. 2. a somewhat rude or racially-discriminating name for a Frenchman (they eat frogs) |
Froggy | adj | Having or full with frogs. |
Frogland | n | An area where frogs are found in abundant. 2. France (vulgar and slang). |
Froglike | adj | Resembling a frog in some aspect. |
Frogman | n | A diver, esp. one in a diving suit (as opposed to scuba gear). |
Frogwort | n | The plant Ranunculus bulbous. |
From | adj | OE: bold, firm, resolute. |
From | prp | With the source or provenance of or at; as 'this cheese comes from France' 2. with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. 3. with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. |
From | phr | "From a Child" - from the time one was a child. etc; since a childhood. |
From | phr | "From Afar" - from a distance; from far off; from a long way off. |
From | phr | "From Amidst" - a static condition denoting among. |
From | phr | "From Beginning To End" - throughout; from start to finish. |
From | phr | "From Can See, to Can't See" - from the time when it is barely light, until there is no light remaining from sunup to sundown. |
From | phr | "From Cradle to the Grave" - in every stage of life; from birth to death. |
From | phr | "From Day to Day" - daily; as the days pass. |
From | phr | From Dawn to Dusk" - all day, all the time (esp. with reference to a repeated pattern of work, mode of living, etc.) |
From | phr | "From Door to Door" - going from (the door of) one house to another, with a specific purpose in mind, such as a charity drive or survey. |
From | phr | "From Head to Foot" - over the whole length of one's body. 2. every part of one's being, nature, character. |
From | phr | "From Head to Heels" - from top to toes. |
From | phr | "From Hell" - exceptionally bad or unpleasant. |
From | phr | "From Here to Sunday" - everywhere, all over the place. |
From | phr | "From My Cold, Dead Hand" - a statement that one will not allow something (most often a firearm or other weapon) to be taken away from one's possession until after one's death. A variant, from my cold dead fingers, is most often used in the US by gun rights advocates. |
From | phr | "From Now On" - from now etc into the future. |
From | phr | "From Oneself" - beside oneself; out of one's wits. |
From | phr | "From One Week's End to Another" - continuously over a long period of time. |
From | phr | "From On High" - from heaven, or above. |
From | phr | "From Side to Side" - repeatedly, wavering. 2. not in a straight way, not straightly. |
From | phr | "From that Day to This" - from then to now. |
From | phr | "From the Bottom Of One's Heart" - with sincerity; with genuinely felt emotion. |
From | phr | "From the Cradle to the Grave" - in every stage of life. 2. from birth to death. |
From | phr | "From the Get-go" - from the beginning or start. |
From | phr | "From the Ground Up" - from the beginning, starting with basics, foundation or fundamentals |
From | phr | "From the Start" - at a time when something started, or has started, and ever since; from the word go. 2. from the beginning. 3. from the first; from the outset. |
From | phr | "From the Word 'Go' - as soon as possible, or has been possible (right) from the start. |
From | phr | "From Time to Time" - occasionally; at irregular intervals, every now and again. |
From | phr | "From Top to Bottom" - throughout something. |
From | phr | "From Where One is Standing" - (as seen or judged) from one's physical intellectual or position or situation. |
From | phr | "From Year to Year" - each year, as the years pass. |
Fromwards | adj | Turned from or away. |
Fromwards | adv | In a direction which leads from or is turned from, as a given place or object. |
Fromwards | prp | Away from. |
Frory | adj | Frozen, cold, chilly; sad, mournful. 2. covered with a froth resembling frost. |
Frost | n | A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. 2. the cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. 3.(figuratively) coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. 4.(obsolete) the act of freezing; the congealing of water or other liquid. |
Frost | vb | To get covered with frost. 2. to coat something (such as a cake) with icing to resembling frost. 3. to anger or annoy. |
Frost | phr | "Frost Over" - become covered with frost; frosted over. |
Frost | phr | "Frost Up" - to be come cold and chilly. |
Frost-bite | n | Freezing or the effect of freezing, of some part of the body. 2. frost-burn. |
Frost-bitten | adj | Affected by frost-bite. |
Frost-burn | n | Frostbite. |
Frost-dew | n | Hoarfrost, rime. 2. frozen dew drops |
Frosted | adj | Having frost present. 2. appearing to have frost. 3. (slang)- intoxicated. |
Frost-hardy | adj | Capable of surviving freezing temperatures. |
Frostily | adv | In a chilling or cold manner or way. |
Frostiness | n | The quality of being frosty. |
Frosting | n | A sugary coating for cakes and other baked goods. 2. a layer of frost. 3. the theft of a car when it is left unattended, esp. when it's engine is left running to defrost the car. |
Frostinglike | adj | Resembling or characteristic . |
Frostless | adj | Not having or without frost. |
Frostlike | adj | Resembling or like frost in some aspect. |
Frostily | adv | In a frosty, cold, chilling way or manner. |
Frostiness | n | The state or condition of being frosty. |
Frost itch | n | A complaint affecting certain people only in winter and in dry climates, and a form of pruritis; also called 'winter itch'. |
Frost-smoke | n | Or sea smoke, a thick mist in certain latitudes, rising up the frozen sea's surface. |
Frost wedging | n | Fracturing of rock by the expansionary pressure associated with the freezing of water in planes of weakness or in pore spaces. |
Frostwork | n | The patterns made by frost on various surfaces, such as glass or metal. |
Frostwort | n | The plant Helianthenum canadense - so named for in the fall, ice in crystal stick out from it roots. |
Frosty | adj | Cold, chilly, at freezing point. 2. having on it frost or covered by frost. 3. having an aloof, unfeeling or unfriendly manner. 4. of the hair colour: whitish or hoary. 5. of age: old or advancing. 6. glistening white or whitish in hue |
Frosty breath | n | When one exhales and its cold outside, though, the water vapor in your breath loses its energy quickly. Rather than continuing to move freely, the molecules begins to pack themselves together . As they do so, they slow down and begin tho change into either liquid or solid forms or water. |
Frover | vb | OE: consolation, joy, help, benefit. 2. to comfort, give solace. |
Frozen | adj | Incapable of being changed or moved or undone. 2. not convertible to cash "frozen assets" 3. (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value "frozen foods". 4. turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold. 5. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. 6. reception","a frozen look on their faces","icy stare","wintry smile" 7. not thawed. 8. absolutely still. |
Frozen | phr | "Frozen Over" - covered with ice. |
Fozen | phr | "From Stiff" - extremely cold or numb with cold. 2. rigid because liquid content has turned to ice. |
Frozen | phr | "Frozen to the Marrow" - chilled inside as well as outside. |
Frozen-food | n | Food preserved by freezing from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. |
Frozenly | adv | In a chillingly manner or way. |
Frozenness | n | State or condition of being frozen. |
Frozen shoulder | n | A chronic painful stiffness of the shoulder joint. |
Frozen sleep | n | A form of therapy that consists in putting the patient to sleep and lowering the body temperature to from 90F degrees to 70F degrees. |
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