Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 48
Footpace (n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. -- Shipley.
Footpad (n.) A highwayman or robber on foot.
Compare: Pad
Pad (n.) A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Pad (n.) An easy-paced horse; a padnag. -- Addison
An abbot on an ambling pad. -- Tennyson.
Pad (n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. -- Gay. -- Byron.
Pad (n.) The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]
Footpad (n.) A highwayman who robs on foot [syn: footpad, padder].
Footpaths (n. pl. ) of Footpath.
Footpath (n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.
Footpath (n.) A trodden path [syn: pathway, footpath].
Footplate (n.) (Locomotives) See Footboard (a).
Footplate (n.) The platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls.
Foot pound () (Mech.) A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.
Foot poundal () A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.
Footprint (n.) 腳印，足跡 [C] The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."
Footprint (n.) A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window" [syn: footprint, footmark, step].
Footprint (n.) A trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important; "the footprints of an earlier civilization".
Footprint (n.) The area taken up by some object; "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches".
Footprint (n.) The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
Footprint (n.) [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, footprints). See also toeprint.
Footprint (n.) RAM footprint: The minimum amount of RAM which an OS or other program takes; this figure gives one an idea of how much will be left for other applications. How actively this RAM is used is another matter entirely.
Recent tendencies to featuritis and software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point of making it nearly unusable in practice.
[This problem is, thankfully, limited to operating systems so stupid that they don't do virtual memory -- ESR]
Footprint, () The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
Footprint, () The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or file.
Footprint, () ({IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often "footprints").
See also toeprint. [{Jargon File] (1995-04-25)
Footrope (n.) (Aut.) 腳纜；捲帆時水手立足之纜索；帆的下緣索 The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
Footrope (n.) (Aut.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
Footsore (a.) （因走路過多）腳痛的，腳酸的 Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
Footsore (a.) Having sore or tired feet.
Footstalk (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
Footstalk (n.) The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
Footstalk (n.) The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.
Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.
Footstall (n.) The stirrup of a woman's saddle.
Footstall (n.) The plinth or base of a pillar.
Footstep (n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
Footstep (n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
Footstone (n.) The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.
Footstool (n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
Footway (n.) A passage for pedestrians only.
Footworn (a.) Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
Footy (a.) Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
Footy (a.) Poor; mean.
Fop (n.) One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
Fop-doodle (n.) A stupid or insignificant fellow; a fool; a simpleton.
Fopling (n.) A petty fop.
Fopperies (n. pl. ) of Foppery.
Foppery (n.) The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
Foppery (n.) Folly; foolery.
Foppish (a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
For- () A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.
For (prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
For (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
For (prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
For (prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
For (prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
For (prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
For (prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
For (prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
For (prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
For (prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
For (conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
For (conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
For (n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
Forage (n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
Forage (n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Foraged (imp. & p. p.) of Forage.
Foraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forage.
Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
Forage (v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Forager (n.) One who forages.
Foralite (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.
Foramina (n. pl. ) of Foramen.
Foramines (n. pl. ) of Foramen.
Foramen (n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
Foraminated (a.) Having small opening, or foramina.
Foraminifer (n.) One of the foraminifera.
Foraminifera (n. pl.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.
Foraminiferous (a.) Having small openings, or foramina.
Foraminiferous (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
Foraminous (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous.
Forasmuch (conj.) In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.
Foray (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
Foray (v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.
Forayer (n.) One who makes or joins in a foray.
Forbade () imp. of Forbid.
Forbathe (v. t.) To bathe.
Forbear (n.) 祖先 [P1] An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. [Scot.] [Also spelled {forebear}.] "Your forbears of old." -- Sir W. Scott.
Forbore (imp.) of Forbear.
Forbare () of Forbear.
Forborne (p. p.) of Forbear.
Forbearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbear.
Forbear (v. i.) 克制；忍耐；避免（做）…… [（+from）] To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? -- 1 Kings xxii. 6.
Forbear (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. -- Ezek. ii. 7.
Forbear (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear. -- Cowper.
Both bear and forbear. -- Old Proverb.
Forbear (v. t.) 克制；忍耐 [+v-ing] [+to-v ] To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
But let me that plunder forbear. -- Shenstone.
The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage. -- Tennyson.
Forbear (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
Forbearing one another in love. -- Eph. iv. 2.
Forbear (v. t.) To cease from bearing. [Obs.]
Whenas my womb her burden would forbear. -- Spenser.
Forbear (n.) A person from whom you are descended [syn: {forebear}, {forbear}].
Forbear (v.) Refrain from doing; "she forbore a snicker" [syn: {forbear}, {hold back}].
Forbear (v.) Resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping" [syn: {refrain}, {forbear}] [ant: {act}, {move}].
Forbearance (n.) 節制，自製，忍耐 The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
Forbearance (n.) The quality of being forbearing; indulgence toward offenders or enemies; long-suffering.
Forbearance (n.) Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: {patience}, {forbearance}, {longanimity}] [ant: {impatience}].
Forbearance (n.) A delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming".
Forbearant (a.) Forbearing. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Forbearer (n.) One who forbears. -- Tusser.
Forbearing (a.) Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.
Forbearing (a.) Showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment; "seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression"; "was longanimous in the face of suffering" [syn: forbearing, longanimous].
Forbade (imp.) of Forbid.
Forbidden (p. p.) of Forbid.
Forbid () of Forbid.
Forbidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbid.
Forbid (v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder. "I did not or forbid." -- Milton.
Forbid (v. t.) 禁止，不許 [O1] [O2] [+v-ing]；阻止，妨礙 [O2] To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. -- Shak.
Forbid (v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
Have I not forbid her my house? -- Shak.
Forbid (v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. -- Dryden.
Forbid (v. t.) To accurse; to blast. [Obs.]
He shall live a man forbid. -- Shak.
Forbid (v. t.) To defy; to challenge. [Obs.] -- L. Andrews.
Syn: To prohibit; interdict; hinder; preclude; withhold; restrain; prevent. See {Prohibit}.
Forbid (v.) Command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: {forbid}, {prohibit}, {interdict}, {proscribe}, {veto}, {disallow}, {nix}] [ant: {allow}, {countenance}, {let}, {permit}].
Forbid (v.) Keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: {prevent}, {forestall}, {foreclose}, {preclude}, {forbid}].
Forbid (v.) [ T ] (Present participle forbidding, past tense forbade or old use forbad, past participle forbidden) (B2) （尤指官方）禁止，不許，阻止，妨礙 To refuse to allow something, especially officially, or to prevent a particular plan of action by making it impossible.
// The law forbids the sale of cigarettes to people under the age of 16.
// [ + to infinitive ] He's obviously really embarrassed about it because he forbade me to tell anyone.
// He is forbidden from leaving the country.
Idiom:
God forbid also Heaven forbid 但願不會發生這事 A way of saying that you hope something does not happen.
// God forbid (that) his parents should ever find out.
Forbiddance (n.) 禁止；被禁 The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [Obs.]
How hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. -- Milton.
Forbiddance (n.) An official prohibition or edict against something [syn: {ban}, {banning}, {forbiddance}, {forbidding}].
Forbiddance (n.) The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: {prohibition}, {inhibition}, {forbiddance}].
Forbidden (a.) Prohibited; interdicted.
I know no spells, use no forbidden arts. -- Milton.
{Forbidden fruit} Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.
{Forbidden fruit} (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock ({Citrus decumana}). The name is given in different places to several varieties of Citrus fruits.
Forbidden (a.) Excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject" [syn: {forbidden}, {out(p)}, {prohibited}, {proscribed}, {taboo}, {tabu}, {verboten}].
Forbidden (a.) (B1) （尤指法律）禁止的，不准的 Not allowed, especially by law.
// Smoking is forbidden in the cinema.
Idiom:
Forbidden fruit (Literary) （尤指性的）禁果 Something, especially something sexual, that is even more attractive because it is not allowed.
// He was always drawn to other men's wives - the forbidden fruit.
Forbiddenly (adv.) In a forbidden or unlawful manner. -- Shak.
Forbiddenly (adv.) (in British English) In a forbidden manner; illegally.
Forbidder (n.) One who forbids. -- Milton.