Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 11
Fatback (n.) (Zool.) The menhaden.
Fatback (n.) Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
Fat-brained (a.) Dull of apprehension.
Fate (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. -- Milton.
Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. -- Froude.
Fate (n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. -- Addison.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. -- Shak.
The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. -- Pope.
Fate (n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. -- Pope.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. -- B. Taylor.
Fate (n.) pl. (Myth.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Note: Among all nations it has been common to speak of fate or destiny as a power superior to gods and men -- swaying all things irresistibly. This may be called the fate of poets and mythologists. Philosophical fate is the sum of the laws of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind properties of matter. Theological fate represents Deity as above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his will -- the expression of that will being the law. -- Krauth-Fleming.
Syn: Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance.
Fate (n.) An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate].
Fate (n.) The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate].
Fate (n.) Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion].
Fate (v.) Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate].
Fate, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 497
Housing Units (2000): 184
Land area (2000): 4.730197 sq. miles (12.251153 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016616 sq. miles (0.043035 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.746813 sq. miles (12.294188 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25572
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.933781 N, 96.384482 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fate, TX
Fate
Fated (p. p. & a.) Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
One midnight Fated to the purpose. -- Shak.
Fated (p. p. & a.) Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] "The fated sky." -- Shak.
Fated (p. p. & a.) Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] -- Dryden.
Fated (a.) (Usually followed by `to') Determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination" [syn: doomed, fated].
Fateful (a. ) Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The fateful steel." -- J. Barlow.
Fateful (a. ) Significant of fate; ominous.
The fateful cawings of the crow. -- Longfellow. -- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n.
Fateful (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].
Fateful (a.) Ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous].
Fateful (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].
Fateful (a.) Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful].
Compare: Redfish
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b) .
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) The rosefish.
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (c) A large California labroid food fish ({Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under
Drumfish.
Fathead (n.) (Zool.) A cyprinoid
fish of the
Fathead (n.) (Zool.) A labroid
food fish of
Fathead (n.) A man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany].
Father (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
Father (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
Father (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.
Father (n.) A senator of ancient
Father (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
Father (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
Father (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
Fathered (imp. & p. p.) of Father.
Fathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Father.
Father (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.
Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
Father (v. t.) To provide with a father.
Fatherhood (n.) The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Fathers-in-law (n. pl. ) of Father-in-law.
Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Fatherland (n.) 祖國 [C] One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
Fatherland (n.) The country where you were born [syn: {fatherland}, {homeland}, {motherland}, {mother country}, {country of origin}, {native land}].
Compare: Motherland
Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as {fatherland}.
Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
Fatherless (a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
Fatherless (a.) Without a known author. -- Beau. & Fl.
Fatherless (a.) Having no living father.
Fatherless (a.) Not having a known or legally responsible father.
Fatherlessness (n.) The state of being without a father.
Fatherliness (n.) The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
Fatherliness (n.) The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father; "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears" [syn: fatherliness, paternal quality].
Father longlegs () See Daddy longlegs, 2.
Fatherly (a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. -- Shak.
Fatherly (a.) Of or pertaining to a father.
Fatherly (a.) Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective [syn: fatherly, fatherlike].
Fathership (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
Fathom (n.) 長度單位 (6尺) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
Fathom (n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration.
Fathomed (imp. & p. p.) of Fathom.
Fathoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fathom.
Fathom (v. t.) (v. t.) 測量深度，看穿，徹底瞭解 (v. i.) 測深 To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.
Fathom (v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.
Fathom (n.) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth [syn: {fathom}, {fthm}].
Fathom (n.) (Mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore [syn: {fathom}, {fthm}].
Fathom (v.) come to understand [syn: {penetrate}, {fathom}, {bottom}].
Fathom (v.) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line [syn: {fathom}, {sound}].
Fathomable (a.) 可測的；看得透的 Capable of being fathomed.
Fathomable (a.) (Of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth [syn: {fathomable}, {plumbable}, {soundable}] [ant: {unfathomable}].
Fathomable (a.) (Of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended.
Fathomer (n.) One who fathoms.
Fathomless (a.) 深不可測的，難理解的，不可思議的 Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
Fathomless (a.) Incomprehensible.
Fatidical (a.) Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak.
Fatiferous (a.) Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive.
Fatigable (a.) Easily tired.
Fatigate (a.) Wearied; tired; fatigued.
Fatigate (v. t.) To weary; to tire; to fatigue.
Fatigation (n.) Weariness.
Fatigue (n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Fatigue (n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
Fatigue (n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Fatigued (imp. & p. p.) of Fatigue.
Fatiguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatigue.
Fatigue (n.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Fatiloquent (a.) Prophetic; fatidical.
Fatiloquist (n.) A fortune teller.
Fatimite (a.) Alt. of Fatimide.
Fatimide (a.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed.
Fatimide (n.) A descendant of Fatima.
Fatiscence (n.) A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures.
Fat-kidneyed (a.) Gross; lubberly.
Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
Fatly (adv.) Grossly; greasily.
Fatner (n.) One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener.
Fatness (n.) The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
Fatness (n.) Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
Fatness (n.) That which makes fat or fertile.
Fattened (imp. & p. p.) of Fatten.
Fattining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fatten.
Fatten (v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Fatten (v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. -- Dryden.
Fatten (v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. -- Otway.
Fatten (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].
Fattener (n.) One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
Fattiness (n.) State or quality of being fatty.
Fattish (a.) Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
Fatty (a.) Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Fatuitous (a.) Stupid; fatuous.
Fatuity (n.) Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Fatuous (a.) Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
Fatuous (a.) Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
Fat-wited (a.) Dull; stupid.
Faubourg (n.) A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
Faucal (a.) Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages.
Fauces (n. pl.) (Anat.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
Fauces (n. pl.) (Bot.) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
Fauces (n. pl.) (Zool.) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
Compare: Faux
Faux (n.; pl. fauces) [L.] See Fauces.
Fauces (n.) The passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx.
Faucet (n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
Faucet (n.) The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
Faucet (n.) A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir [syn: faucet, spigot].
Fauchion (n.) See Falchion. [Obs.]
Faucial (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
Faugh (interj.) An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
Faulchion (n.) See Falchion.