farad | (noun) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates | Synonyms: F |
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farandole | (noun) a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures | - |
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farawayness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farness, remoteness |
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farce | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce comedy, travesty |
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(noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: forcemeat |
farcicality | (noun) The property of resembling a farce; of being ludicrous, absurd. | - |
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fardel | (noun) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) | - |
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fare | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: menu |
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(noun) the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed | - |
(noun) a paying (taxi) passenger | - |
(noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: transportation |
farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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(noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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farina | (noun) fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings | - |
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farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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farmer | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbuster |
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farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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farmhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand |
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farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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farming | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
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(noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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(noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
farmyard | (noun) an area adjacent to farm buildings | - |
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farness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, remoteness |
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faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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farrow | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrowing |
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farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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(noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
(noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
fart | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, farting, flatus, wind |
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farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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