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formal
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(s) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"

(a) being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"

(a) (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"

(s) logically deductive; "formal proof"

(s) characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"

(s) represented in simplified or symbolic form

fairly
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(r) to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"

(r) in a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"

(r) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"

funding
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(n) the act of financing

(n) financial resources provided to make some project possible; "the foundation provided support for the experiment"

factory
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(n) a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

forever
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(r) seemingly without interruption; often and repeatedly; "always looking for faults"; "it is always raining"; "he is forever cracking jokes"; "they are forever arguing"

(r) for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss

(r) for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day"

first
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(n) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base

(n) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

(n) an honours degree of the highest class

(n) the first element in a countable series; "the first of the month"

(n) the first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to be the first"

(n) the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"

(s) being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first gear on steep hills"

(s) ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"

(s) serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"

(s) serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"

(a) preceding all others in time or space or degree; "the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training"

(a) highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections; "first soprano"; "the first violin section"; "played first horn"

(s) indicating the beginning unit in a series

(r) before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"

(r) the initial time; "when Felix first saw a garter snake"

(r) prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost"

(r) before another in time, space, or importance; "I was here first"; "let's do this job first"

fishing
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(n) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion

(n) the occupation of catching fish for a living

female
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(n) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

(n) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

(a) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"

(s) for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"

(s) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

faculty
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(n) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

(n) the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"

flow
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(n) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

(n) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

(n) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

(n) any uninterrupted stream or discharge

(n) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to

(n) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

(n) the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

(v) undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"

(v) cover or swamp with water

(v) fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

(v) move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

(v) move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

(v) cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

(v) be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"

fewer
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(a) (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of; "fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late"

fashion
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(n) characteristic or habitual practice

(n) how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"

(n) the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

(v) make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

file
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(n) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal

(n) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

(n) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together

(n) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

(v) file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

(v) place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please"

(v) record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"

(v) smooth with a file; "file one's fingernails"

(v) proceed in line; "The students filed into the classroom"

frame
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(n) one of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies

(n) a structure supporting or containing something

(n) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"

(n) alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

(n) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

(n) a period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat

(v) draw up the plans or basic details for; "frame a policy"

(v) formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"

(v) enclose in or as if in a frame; "frame a picture"

(v) construct by fitting or uniting parts together

(v) take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

(v) enclose in a frame, as of a picture

forth
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(r) out into view; "came forth from the crowd"; "put my ideas forth"

(r) forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward"

(r) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school";

frequently
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(r) many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee"

funny
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(s) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "wh

(s) arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughab

(s) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"

(s) experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"

(r) in a comical manner; "she acted comically"

(r) in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"; "he acted kind of funny"

file
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(n) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal

(n) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order

(n) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together

(n) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other

(v) file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

(v) place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please"

(v) record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"

(v) smooth with a file; "file one's fingernails"

(v) proceed in line; "The students filed into the classroom"

feature
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(n) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

(n) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular"

(n) a prominent aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"

(n) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning"

(n) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'"

(v) have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"

(v) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

fruit
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(n) an amount of a product

(n) the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies"

(n) the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

(v) bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"

(v) cause to bear fruit

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