| foible | (noun) the weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip | - |
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| (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: idiosyncrasy, mannerism |
| (noun) a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior. | - |
| foil | (noun) a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button | - |
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| (noun) a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal | - |
| (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: transparency |
| (noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: enhancer |
| (verb) cover or back with foil | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) enhance by contrast | - |
| foiled | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, frustrated, thwarted |
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| foiling | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: frustration, thwarting |
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| foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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| (verb) to force onto another | - |
| folacin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folate, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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| folate | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folacin, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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| fold | (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: folding |
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| (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: sheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold |
| (noun) a folded part (as in skin or muscle) | Synonyms: plica |
| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: congregation, faithful |
| (noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: flock |
| (noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: folding |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, plication |
| (verb) incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating | - |
| (verb) become folded or folded up | Synonyms: fold up |
| (verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other | Synonyms: fold up, turn up |
| (verb) confine in a fold, like sheep | Synonyms: pen up |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down |
| foldable | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldaway, folding |
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| foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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| folder | (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents | - |
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| (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet |
| folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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| folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| folding | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, foldaway |
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| (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: fold |
| (noun) the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape | Synonyms: protein folding |
| (noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: fold |
| foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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| foliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant | - |
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| (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaged, foliose |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliate, foliated |
| foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
| foliaged | (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliose |
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| foliate | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliated |
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| (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | - |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated |
| (verb) grow leaves | - |
| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
| (verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
| (verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
| (verb) decorate with leaves | - |
| foliated | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliate |
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| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliate |
| foliation | (noun) the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves | - |
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| (noun) the work of coating glass with metal foil | - |
| (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliage |
| (noun) (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock | - |
| (noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: leafing |
| folie | (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: disturbance, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
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| folio | (noun) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages | - |
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| (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: leaf |
| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: page number, pagination, paging |
| foliolate | (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets | - |
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| foliose | (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliaged |
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| folium | (noun) a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock | - |
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| folk | (noun) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community | Synonyms: ethnic music, folk music |
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| (noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folks |
| (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: tribe |
| (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
| folklore | (noun) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
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| folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
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| folks | (noun) your parents | - |
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| (noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folk |
| folksong | (noun) a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | Synonyms: folk ballad, folk song |
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| folksy | (adjective) very informal and familiar | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc. | - |
| folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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| follback | (verb) to return someone's following of you on a social media platform | - |
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| follicle | (noun) any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | - |
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| follicular | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a follicle | - |
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| folliculitis | (noun) inflammation of a hair follicle | - |
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| follies | (noun) a revue with elaborate costuming | - |
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| follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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| (verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
| (verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
| (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
| (verb) grasp the meaning | - |
| (verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
| (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
| (verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
| (verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
| (verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
| (verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
| (verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
| (verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
| (verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
| (verb) adhere to or practice | - |
| (verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
| (verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
| (verb) be next | - |
| (verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
| follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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| (noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
| followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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| following | (adjective) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the desired direction | - |
| (adjective) about to be mentioned or specified | Synonyms: undermentioned |
| (adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: next |
| (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
| (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
| followup | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, reexamination, review |
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| (noun) an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done | Synonyms: follow-up |
| (noun) a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work | Synonyms: follow-up |
| folly | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity |
| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: foolishness, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, foolishness, madness |
| foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions | - |
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| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: agitate, stir up |
| fomentation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: instigation |
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| (noun) application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation | - |
| (noun) a substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice | - |
| fomenter | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: agitator |
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| fomite | (noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: vehicle |
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| fond | (adjective) absurd or silly because unlikely | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for | Synonyms: partial |
| (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, doting |
| (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, lovesome, tender |
| fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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| fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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| fondler | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: petter |
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| (noun) a molester who touches the intimate parts of the victim | - |
| fondling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| fondly | (adverb) with fondness; with love | Synonyms: lovingly |
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| fondness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| (noun) a predisposition to like something | Synonyms: fancy, partiality |
| fondu | (noun) hot cheese or chocolate melted to the consistency of a sauce into which bread or fruits are dipped | Synonyms: fondue |
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| (noun) cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces | Synonyms: fondue |
| fondue | (noun) hot cheese or chocolate melted to the consistency of a sauce into which bread or fruits are dipped | Synonyms: fondu |
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| (noun) cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces | Synonyms: fondu |
| font | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, baptistry |
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| (noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, fount, typeface |
| fontanel | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanelle, soft spot |
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| fontanelle | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanel, soft spot |
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| food | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: nutrient |
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| (noun) anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | Synonyms: food for thought, intellectual nourishment |
| (noun) any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment | Synonyms: solid food |
| foodgasm | (noun) An extreme feeling of pleasure caused by seeing food | - |
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| foodie | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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| foodless | (adjective) being without food | - |
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| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| fool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: jester, motley fool |
| (verb) indulge in horseplay | Synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around |
| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, gull |
| foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| foolhardiness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: rashness, recklessness |
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| foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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| fooling | (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: casual |
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| foolish | (adjective) devoid of good sense or judgment | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| foolishly | (adverb) without good sense or judgment | Synonyms: unwisely |
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| foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
| foolproof | (adjective) not liable to failure | Synonyms: unfailing |
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| (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: goof-proof, goofproof |
| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| foot | (noun) travel by walking | - |
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| (noun) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates | Synonyms: invertebrate foot |
| (noun) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings | Synonyms: animal foot |
| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a support resembling a pedal extremity | - |
| (noun) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint | Synonyms: human foot, pes |
| (noun) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | Synonyms: metrical foot, metrical unit |
| (noun) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot | Synonyms: infantry |
| (noun) the lower part of anything | - |
| (noun) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger | - |
| (noun) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard | Synonyms: ft |
| (verb) add a column of numbers | Synonyms: foot up |
| (verb) walk | Synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: pick |
| footage | (noun) film that has been shot | - |
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| (noun) a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done | - |
| football | (noun) any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | Synonyms: football game |
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| (noun) the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football | - |
| footballer | (noun) an athlete who plays American football | Synonyms: football player |
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| footbath | (noun) a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet | - |
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| footboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet | - |
| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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| footed | (adjective) having feet | - |
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| footedness | (noun) the property of favoring one foot over the other (as in kicking a ball) | - |
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| footer | (noun) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page | Synonyms: footnote |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: pedestrian, walker |
| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet | - |
| footfall | (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footstep, step |
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| footfault | (noun) a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | - |
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| footgear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footwear |
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| foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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| foothold | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: beachhead |
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| (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: footing |
| (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: bridgehead |
| footing | (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, ground |
| (noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups | Synonyms: terms |
| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| footless | (adjective) having no feet or analogous appendages | - |
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| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| footling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| footloose | (adjective) free to go or do as one pleases | - |
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| footman | (noun) a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores | - |
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| footmark | (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footprint, step |
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