Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 10
Fash (v. t.) To vex; to tease; to trouble. [Scot.]
Fash (n.) Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.]
Without further fash on my part. -- De Quincey.
Fashion (n.) 流行，時髦，時尚，時裝，式樣，方式 The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
The fashion of his countenance was altered. -- Luke ix. 29.
I do not like the fashion of your garments. -- Shak.
Fashion (n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
The innocent diversions in fashion. -- Locke.
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. -- H. Spencer.
Fashion (n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
Fashion (n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion." -- Shak.
After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.
Fashion piece (Naut.), One of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
Fashion plate, A pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.
Fashioned (imp. & p. p.) of Fashion.
Fashioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fashion.
Fashion (v. t.) 形成，製造，塑造，使合適 To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. -- Gay.
Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. -- Cowper.
Fashion (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. -- Spenser.
Fashion (v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. -- Locke.
Fashion (v. t.) To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), A needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.
Fashion (n.) 1: 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" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion].
Fashion (n.) Characteristic or habitual practice.
Fashion (n.) The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior.
Fashion (n.) Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode.
Fashion (v.) Make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: fashion, forge].
Fashion (n.) (Popular style) (A2) [ C or U ] （尤指服裝、髮型、妝容的）流行款式，時興式樣 A style that is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair, make-up, etc..
// Long hair is back in fashion for men.
// Fur coats have gone out of fashion.
// A programme with features on sport and fashion.
// She always wears the latest fashions.
Follow (a) fashion 趕時髦，追隨潮流 To do what is popular at the time.
Like it's going out of fashion (Informal) 大量快速地（使用） If you use something like it's going out of fashion, you use large amounts of it very quickly.
// Emma spends money like it's going out of fashion.
Fashion (n.) (Manner) [ S ] 方式 A way of doing things.
// The rebel army behaved in a brutal fashion.
After a fashion (Mainly UK) 還過得去，還算可以 If you can do something after a fashion, you can do it, but not well.
// I can cook, after a fashion.
Fashion (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 手工製作 To make something using your hands.
// He fashioned a hat for himself from/ out of newspaper.
Fashionable (a.) 流行的，時尚的；時髦的；上流社會的；高級的 Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
Fashionable (a.) Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
Fashionable (a.) Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
Fashionable (a.) Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. -- Shak.
Fashionable (n.) A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Fashionable (a.) Being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe" [syn: {fashionable}, {stylish}] [ant: {unfashionable}, {unstylish}].
Fashionable (a.) Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd" [syn: {stylish}, {fashionable}] [ant: {styleless}, {unstylish}].
Fashionable (a.) Patronized by.
Fashionable (a.) (B1) 流行的；時髦的；時尚的 Popular at a particular time.
// A fashionable nightclub/ restaurant.
// Fashionable ideas/ clothes.
// It's not fashionable to wear short skirts at the moment.
Fashionable (a.) （人）時髦的 Wearing clothes, doing things, and going to places that are in fashion.
// A fashionable couple posed elegantly at the next table.
Fashionableness (n.) State of being fashionable.
Fashionably (adv.) In a fashionable manner.
Fashionably (adv.) In a fashionable manner; "his voice had no trace of the drawl that you would expect to find in a fashionably dressed young man" [ant: unfashionably].
Fashioned (a.) Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new-fashioned.
Fashioned (a.) Planned and made or fashioned artistically; "beautifully fashioned dresses".
Fashioner (n.) One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [R.]
The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. -- Sir W. Scott.
Fashionist (n.) An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. [R.] -- Fuller.
Fashionless (a.) Having no fashion.
Fashion-monger (n.) One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. -- Marston.
Fashion-mongering (a.) Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] -- Shak.
Compare: Pyrgom
Pyrgom (n.) (Min.) A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite.
Fassaite (n.) (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.
Fasted (imp. & p. p.) of Fast.
Fasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fast.
Fast (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. -- Milton.
Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child. -- 2 Sam. xii. 21.
Fasting day, A fast day; a day of fasting.
Fast (n.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
Fast (n.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
Fast (n.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
Fast (a.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
Fast (a.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
Fast (a.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
Fast (a.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
Fast (a.) Tenacious; retentive.
Fast (a.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
Fast (a.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
Fast (a.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. -- Thackeray.
Fast (a.) In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.
Fast and loose, Now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another. "Play fast and loose with faith." -- Shak.
Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), Two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re["e]ngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa.
Hard and fast (Naut.), So completely aground as to be immovable.
To make fast (Naut.), To make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.
Fast (adv.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
Fast (adv.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
Fast by, or Fast beside, Close or near to; near at hand.
He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by. -- Milton.
Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. -- Pope.
Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
Fast (adv.) Quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters".
Fast (adv.) Firmly or closely; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" [syn: fast, tight].
Fast (a.) Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" [ant: slow].
Fast (a.) (Used of timepieces) Indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast" [ant: slow].
Fast (a.) At a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot" [ant: slow].
Fast (a.) (Of surfaces) Conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay".
Fast (a.) Resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors".
Fast (a.) Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast].
Fast (a.) Hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit" [syn: flying, quick, fast].
Fast (a.) Securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" [syn: fast, firm, immobile].
Fast (a.) Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends" [syn: firm, loyal, truehearted, fast(a)].
Fast (a.) (Of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time; "a fast lens".
Fast (n.) Abstaining from food [syn: fast, fasting].
Fast (v.) Abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent".
Fast (v.) Abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast".
FAST, () Fast ARM Solutions Toolkit (ARM, Palm, PDA).
FAST, () First Application System Test
FAST, () Forschungsinstitut fuer Angewandte Software-Technologie [e.v.] (org.)
FAST, () Federation Against Software Theft.
FAST, () Fortran Automatic Symbol Translator. (1996-05-19)
Fast, () The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called "the fast" (Acts 27:9).
The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Testament is in Zech. 7:1-7; 8:19, from which it appears that during their captivity the Jews observed four annual fasts.
(1.) The fast of the fourth month, kept on the seventeenth day of Tammuz, the anniversary of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; to commemorate also the incident recorded Ex. 32:19. (Comp. Jer. 52:6, 7.)
(2.) The fast of the fifth month, kept on the ninth of Ab (comp. Num. 14:27), to commemorate the burning of the city and temple (Jer. 52:12, 13).
(3.) The fast of the seventh month, kept on the third of Tisri (comp. 2 Kings 25), the anniversary of the murder of Gedaliah (Jer. 41:1, 2).
(4.) The fast of the tenth month (comp. Jer. 52:4; Ezek. 33:21; 2 Kings 25:1), to commemorate the beginning of the siege of the holy city by Nebuchadnezzar.
There was in addition to these the fast appointed by Esther (4:16).
Public national fasts on account of sin or to supplicate divine favour were sometimes held. (1.) 1 Sam. 7:6; (2.) 2 Chr. 20:3; (3.) Jer. 36:6-10; (4.) Neh. 9:1.
There were also local fasts. (1.) Judg. 20:26; (2.) 2 Sam. 1:12; (3.) 1 Sam. 31:13; (4.) 1 Kings 21:9-12; (5.) Ezra 8:21-23: (6.) Jonah 3:5-9.
There are many instances of private occasional fasting (1 Sam. 1:7: 20:34; 2 Sam. 3:35; 12:16; 1 Kings 21:27; Ezra 10:6; Neh. 1:4; Dan. 10:2,3). Moses fasted forty days (Ex. 24:18; 34:28), and so also did Elijah (1 Kings 19:8). Our Lord fasted forty days in the wilderness (Matt. 4:2).
In the lapse of time the practice of fasting was lamentably abused (Isa. 58:4; Jer. 14:12; Zech. 7:5). Our Lord rebuked the Pharisees for their hypocritical pretences in fasting (Matt. 6:16). He himself appointed no fast. The early Christians, however, observed the ordinary fasts according to the law of their fathers (Acts 13:3; 14:23; 2 Cor. 6:5).
Fastened (imp. & p. p.) of Fasten.
Fastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fasten.
Fasten (v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
Fasten (v. t.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
The
words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of
parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. -- Swift.
Fasten (v. t.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to
lay on; as, to fasten a blow. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
If I can fasten but one cup upon him. -- Shak.
To fasten a charge upon or To fasten a crime upon, to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed.
To fasten one's eyes upon, to look upon steadily without cessation. -- Acts iii. 4.
Syn: To fix; cement; stick; link; affix; annex.
Fasten (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. -- Sir T. Browne.
Fasten (v.) Cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" [syn: fasten, fix, secure] [ant: unfasten].
Fasten (v.) Become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back" [ant: unfasten].
Fasten (v.) Attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other".
Fasten (v.) Make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire" [syn: tighten, fasten].
Fastener (n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
Fastener (n.) A person who fastens or makes fast; "he found the door fastened and wondered who the fastener was".
Fastener (n.) Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place [syn: fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing].
Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
Fastening (n.) Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place [syn: fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing].
Fastening (n.) The act of fastening things together [syn: fastening, attachment].
Faster (n.) One who abstains from food.
Faster (adv.) More quickly [syn: quicker, faster].
Fast-handed (a.) Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Fasti (n. pl.) [L.] The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
Fasti (n. pl.) [L.] Records or registers of important events.
Fastidiosity (n.) Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Fastidious (a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. -- Young.
Syn: Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious.
Usage: Fastidious, Squeamish. We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. "Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and
scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish." -- Crabb. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Fas*tid"i*ous*ness, n. Fastigiate
Fastidious (a.) Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" [ant: unfastidious].
Fastidious (a.) Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" [syn: fastidious, exacting] [ant: unfastidious].
Fastigiate (a.) Alt. of Fastigiated.
Fastigiated (a.) 愈上愈狹的；【植】（指樹枝等）直立平行的 Narrowing towards the top.
Fastigiated (a.) (Bot.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
Fastigiated (a.) (Zool.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
Fastigiate (a.) Having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column).
Fastigiate (a.) (Botany) (Of a tree or shrub) Having the branches sloping upward more or less parallel to the main stem.
Fastish (a.) Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.
Fastly (adv.) Firmly; surely.
Fastness (n.) 要塞，鞏固，迅速 The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
All . . . places of fastness [are] laid open. -- Sir J. Davies.
Fastness (n.) A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
Fastness (n.) Conciseness of style. [Obs.] -- Ascham.
Fastness (n.) The state of being fast or swift.
Fastness (n.) A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed" [syn: speed, swiftness, fastness].
Fastness (n.) The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment [syn: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness] [ant: looseness].
Fastness
(n.) A
strongly fortified defensive structure [syn: stronghold, fastness].
Fastuous (a.) Proud; haughty;
disdainful. [Obs.] -- Barrow. -- Fas"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Jer.
Taylor.
Fat (n.) A large tub, cistern, or
vessel; a vat. [Obs.]
The
fats shall overflow with wine and oil. -- Joel ii. 24.
Fat (n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] -- Hebert.
Fat (a.) 肥胖的，豐滿的；肥沃的，富的，收益多的，優厚的 Abounding with fat; as:
Fat (a.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
Fat (a.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
Fat (a.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Making our western wits fat and mean. -- Emerson.
Make the heart of this people fat. -- Is. vi. 10.
Fat (a.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
Fat (a.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. -- Carlyle.
Fat (a.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.]
Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. -- Swift.
Fat (a.) (Typog.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
Fat lute, A mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.
Fat (n.) [U] (Physiol. Chem.) 肥肉，脂肪 An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
Note: Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc.
Fat (n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
Fat (n.) (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
Fat acid. (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic.
Fat series, Fatty series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series.
Natural fats (Chem.), The group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.
Fatted (imp. & p. p.) of Fat.
Fatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fat.
Fat (v. t.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
We fat all creatures else to fat us. -- Shak.
Fat (v. i.) 長胖，長肥 To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
An old
ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. -- Mortimer.
Fat (a.) Having an (over)abundance of flesh;
"he hadn't remembered how fat she was" [ant: lean,
thin].
Fat (a.) Having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope".
Fat (a.) Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [syn: fatty, fat] [ant: fat-free, fatless, nonfat].
Fat (a.) Lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: fat, juicy].
Fat (a.) Marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich].
Fat (n.) A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat".
Fat (n.) A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue].
Fat (n.) Excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness].
Fat (v.) Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up].
FAT, () File Allocation Table (DOS)
File Allocation Table
FAT
FAT32
(FAT) The component of an MS-DOS or Windows 95 file system which describes the files, directories, and free space on a hard disk or floppy disk.
A disk is divided into partitions. Under the FAT file system each partition is divided into clusters, each of which can be one or more sectors, depending on the size of the partition. Each cluster is either allocated to a file or directory or it is free (unused). A directory lists the name, size, modification time and starting cluster of each file or subdirectory it contains.
At the start of the partition is a table (the FAT) with one entry for each cluster. Each entry gives the number of the next cluster in the same file or a special value for "not allocated" or a special value for "this is the last cluster in the chain". The first few clusters after the FAT contain the root directory.
The FAT file system was originally created for the CP/M[?]
operating system where files were catalogued using 8-bit addressing. MS DOS's FAT allows only 8.3 filenames.
With the introduction of MS-DOS 4 an incompatible 16-bit FAT (FAT16) with 32-kilobyte clusters was introduced that allowed partitions of up to 2 gigabytes.
Microsoft later created FAT32 to support partitions larger than two gigabytes and pathnames greater that 256 characters. It also allows more efficient use of disk space since clusters are four kilobytes rather than 32 kilobytes.
FAT32 was first available in OEM Service Release 2 of Windows 95 in 1996. It is not fully backward compatible with the 16-bit and 8-bit FATs.
IDG article
Compare: NTFS.
[How big is a FAT? Is the term used outside MS DOS? How long is a FAT16 filename?]
(2000-02-05)
Fat, () (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel's sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num. 18:12; Ps. 81:16; 147:47). The fat of sacrifices was to be burned (Lev. 3:9-11; 4:8; 7:3; 8:25; Num. 18:17. Comp. Ex. 29:13-22; Lev. 3:3-5).
It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind (Ps 17:10).
In Joel 2:24 the word is equivalent to "vat," a vessel. The hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered "wine-fat" and "press-fat" (Hag. 2:16; Isa. 63:2).
Fatal (a.) 命運的；決定命運的；命中注定的；致命的，生死攸關的 [（+to/ for）] Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.]
These thing are fatal and necessary. -- Tillotson.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. -- Bacon.
Fatal (a.) Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]
That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. -- Shak.
Fatal (a.) Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
Fatal (a.) Bringing death [ant: {nonfatal}].
Fatal (a.) Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [syn: {fateful}, {fatal}].
Fatal (a.) (Of events) Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}].
Fatal (a.) Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: {fatal}, {fateful}].
Fatal, () Resulting in termination of the program. (1997-08-03)
Fatalism (n.) The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
Fatalism (n.) A submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable.
Fatalism (n.) A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them.
Fatalist (n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Fatalist (a.) Of or relating to fatalism; "a fatalist person" [syn: fatalist, fatalistic].
Fatalist (n.) Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny [syn: fatalist, determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist].
Fatalistic (a.) Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
Fatalistic (a.) Of or relating to fatalism; "a fatalist person" [syn: fatalist, fatalistic].
Fatalities (n. pl. ) of Fatality.
Fatality (n.) （因意外事故的）死亡；死者；死亡事故；災禍 [C]；（疾病等）致命；不治 [U]；宿命；命運 [S] The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. -- South.
Fatality (n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. -- Ser T. Browne.
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. -- Eikon Basilike.
Fatality (n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. -- Dryden.
Fatality (n.) A death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: {fatality}, {human death}].
Fatality (n.) The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters.
Fatally (adv.) 致命地；不幸地；宿命地；命中註定地 In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. -- Bentley.
Fatally (adv.) In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
Fatally (adv.) With fatal consequences or implications; "he was fatally ill equipped for the climb".
Fatalness (n.) 危險性；致命性 Quality of being fatal. -- Johnson.
Mirage (n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated.
The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight.
When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.
By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether,
Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. -- Longfellow.
Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.
Fata morgana (n.) A mirage in the Strait of Messina (attributed to the Arthurian sorcerer Morgan le Fay).