| fun | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: merriment, playfulness |
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| (noun) violent and excited activity | - |
| (noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement | Synonyms: playfulness |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: play, sport |
| funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| function | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: office, part, role |
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| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: purpose, role, use |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) | Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function |
| (noun) a relation such that one thing is dependent on another | - |
| (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: officiate |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: go, operate, run, work |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: serve |
| functional | (adjective) designed for or capable of a particular function or use | - |
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| (adjective) involving or affecting function rather than physiology | - |
| (adjective) relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: operative, running, working |
| (adjective) designed for or adapted to a function or use | - |
| (adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: operable, operational, usable, useable |
| functionalism | (noun) a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment | - |
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| (noun) any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose | - |
| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| functionality | (noun) capable of serving a purpose well | - |
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| functionally | (adverb) with respect to function | - |
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| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| functioning | (adjective) performing or able to perform its regular function | - |
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| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
| fund | (noun) a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies | Synonyms: investment company, investment firm, investment trust |
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| (noun) a reserve of money set aside for some purpose | Synonyms: monetary fund |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: stock, store |
| (verb) furnish money for | - |
| (verb) place or store up in a fund for accumulation | - |
| (verb) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds | - |
| (verb) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability | - |
| (verb) invest money in government securities | - |
| (verb) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest | - |
| fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
| fundamental | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: rudimentary, underlying |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, key, primal |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: profound |
| (noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
| (noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
| (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
| fundamentally | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, essentially |
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| fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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| fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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| funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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| funded | (adjective) furnished with funds | - |
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| funding | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: financing |
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| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, support |
| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| fundraiser | (noun) a social function that is held for the purpose of raising money | - |
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| (noun) someone who solicits financial contributions | - |
| funds | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| fundus | (noun) (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening | - |
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| funeral | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: obsequy |
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| funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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| funereal | (adjective) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial | Synonyms: sepulchral |
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| funfair | (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, fair |
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| (noun) a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement | Synonyms: amusement park, pleasure ground |
| fungal | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungous |
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| fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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| fungible | (adjective) of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation | - |
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| (noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
| fungicidal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: antifungal |
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| fungicide | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal, antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent |
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| fungoid | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: funguslike |
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| fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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| fungus | (noun) an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | - |
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| funguslike | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: fungoid |
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| funicle | (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funiculus |
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| funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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| (noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
| funiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a funiculus (especially an inflammation of the spermatic cord) | - |
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| funiculus | (noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord | - |
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| (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funicle |
| funk | (noun) an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar | - |
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| (noun) a state of nervous depression | Synonyms: blue funk |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| funkiness | (noun) (US, slang) The property of being original, offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | - |
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| funky | (adjective) in a state of cowardly fright | - |
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| (adjective) (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues | Synonyms: low-down |
| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
| (adjective) stylish and modern in an unconventional way | - |
| funnel | (noun) (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) | - |
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| (noun) a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth | - |
| (noun) a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends | Synonyms: funnel shape |
| (verb) move or pour through a funnel | - |
| funnies | (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, strip |
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| funnily | (adverb) in a strange manner | Synonyms: oddly, queerly, strangely |
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| funniness | (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, drollery |
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| funny | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) experiencing odd bodily sensations | - |
| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| (noun) an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) | Synonyms: funny remark, funny story, good story |
| funrun | (noun) a footrace run for fun (often including runners who are sponsored for a charity) | Synonyms: fun run |
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