Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 55
Formula (n.) (Med.) A prescription or recipe for the preparation of a medicinal compound.
Formula (n.) (Chem.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.
Note: Chemical formul[ae] consist of the abbreviations of the names of the elements, with a small figure at the lower right hand, to denote the number of atoms of each element contained.
Empirical formula (Chem.), An expression which gives the simple proportion of the constituents; as, the empirical formula of acetic acid is C2H4O2.
Graphic formula, Rational formula (Chem.), An expression of the constitution, and in a limited sense of the structure, of a compound, by the grouping of its atoms or radicals; as, a rational formula of acetic acid is CH3.(C:O).OH; -- called also structural formula, constitutional formula, etc. See also the formula of Benzene nucleus, under Benzene.
Molecular formula (Chem.), A formula indicating the supposed molecular constitution of a compound.
Formula (n.) A group of symbols that make a mathematical statement [syn: formula, expression].
Formula (n.) Directions for making something [syn: recipe, formula].
Formula (n.) A conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle.
Formula (n.) A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements [syn: formula, chemical formula].
Formula (n.) Something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula].
Formula (n.) A liquid food for infants.
Formula (n.) (Mathematics) A standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials" [syn: rule, formula].
Formula, () In logic, a sequence of symbols representing terms, predicates, connectives and quantifiers which is either true or false.
Formula, () FORTH Music Language. An extension of FORTH with concurrent note-playing processes. Runs on Macintosh and Atari ST with MIDI output.
["Formula: A Programming Language for Expressive Computer Music", D.P. Anderson et al Computer 24(7):12 (Jul 1991)].
Formula, () Preprocessor language for the Acorn Archimedes, allowing inline high-level statements to be entered in an assembly program. Written in nawk.
Formularistic (a.) Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization. -- Emerson.
Formularization (n.) The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. -- C. Kingsley.
Formularize (v. t.) To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
Formularize (v.) Express as a formula [syn: formularize, formularise].
Formulary (a.) Stated; prescribed; ritual.
Formularies (n. pl. ) of Formulary.
Formulary (n.) A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents.
Formulary (n.) Prescribed form or model; formula.
Formulary (a.) Of or relating to or of the nature of a formula.
Formulary (n.) (Pharmacology) A book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections" [syn: formulary, pharmacopeia].
Formulary. () A book of forms or precedents for matters of law; the form.
Formulated (imp. & p. p.) of Formulate.
Formulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Formulate.
Formulate (v. t.) To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. -- G. P. Marsh.
Formulate (v.) Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" [syn: explicate, formulate, develop].
Formulate (v.) Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge].
Formulate (v.) Put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate].
Formulate
(v.) Prepare
according to a formula.
Formulation (n.) The act, process, or
result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
Formulation (n.) A substance prepared according to a formula; "the physician prescribed a commercial preparation of the medicine" [syn: formulation, preparation].
Formulation (n.) Inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally [syn: conceptualization, conceptualisation, formulation].
Formulation (n.) The style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" [syn: formulation, expression].
Formule (n.) [F.] A set or prescribed model; a formula. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Formulization (n.) The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.
Formulized (imp. & p. p.) of Formulize.
Formulizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Formulize.
Formulize (v. t.) To reduce to a formula; to formulate. -- Emerson.
Formyl (n.) (Chem.) A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde.
Formyl (n.) (Chem.) Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
Forncast (p. p.) Predestined. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Fornical (a.) Relating to a fornix. Fornicate
Fornicate (a.) Alt. of Fornicated.
Fornicated (a.) Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
Fornicated (a.) (Bot.) Arching over; overarched. -- Gray.
Fornicate (v. i.) To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
Fornicate (v.) Have sex without being married.
Fornication (n.) Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute. -- Whartyon.
Fornication (n.) (Script.) Adultery.
Fornication (n.) (Script.) Incest.
Fornication (n.) (Script.) Idolatry.
Fornication (n.) Voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other.
Fornication (n.) Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" [syn: adultery, criminal conversation, fornication].
Fornication, () In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.)
But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols (Isa. 1:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos. 1:2; 2:1-5; Jer. 3:8,9).
Fornication, () crim. law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of an unmarried person with another, whether the latter be married or unmarried. When the party is married, the offence, as to him or her, is known by the name of adultery. (q.v.) Fornication is, however, included in every case of adultery, as a larceny is included in robbery. 2 Hale's P. C. 302.
Fornicator (n.) An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
Fornicator (n.) Someone who commits adultery or fornication [syn: adulterer, fornicator].
Fornicatress (n.) A woman guilty of fornication. -- Shak.
Fornicatress (n.) A woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]
Fornices (n. pl. ) of Fornix.
Fornix (n.) (Anat.) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
Fornix (n.) (Anat.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
Fornix (n.) Generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space).
Fornix (n.) An arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mammillary bodies [syn: fornix, trigonum cerebrale].
Forold (a.) Very old. [Obs.]
A bear's skin, coal-black, forold. -- Chaucer.
Forpass (v. t. & i.) To pass by or along; to pass over. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Forpine (v. t.) To waste away completely by suffering or torment. [Archaic] "Pale as a forpined ghost." -- Chaucer.
Forray (v. t.) To foray; to ravage; to pillage.
For they that morn had forrayed all the land. -- Fairfax.
Forray (n.) The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.
Forrill (n.) Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. -- McElrath.
Forsook (imp.) of Forsake.
Forsaken (p. p.) of Forsake.
Forsaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forsake.
Forsake (v. t.) To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. -- Ps. lxxxix. 30.
Forsake (v. t.) To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
Forsaker (n.) One who forsakes or deserts.
If you forsake the offer of their love. -- Shak.
Syn: To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up; renounce; reject. See Abandon.
Forsay (v. t.) To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Forshape (v. t.) To render misshapen. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. -- Spenser.
Forslouthe (v. t.) To lose by sloth or negligence. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forslow (v. t.) To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Forslow (v. i.) To loiter. [Obs.] [Also spelled foreslow.] -- Shak.
Forslugge (v. t.) To lsoe by idleness or slotch. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forsooth (adv.) In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.
A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! -- Hayward.
Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. -- Guardian.
Forsooth (v. t.) To address respectfully with the term forsooth. [Obs.]
The captain of the "Charles" had forsoothed her, though he knew her well enough and she him. -- Pepys.
Forsooth (n.) A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person. [R.]
You sip so like a forsooth of the city. -- B. Jonson.
Forsooth (adv.) An archaic word originally meaning `in truth' but now usually used to express disbelief.
Forspeak (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit. -- Shak.
Forspeak (v. t.) To bewitch. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Forspent (a.) Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic]
A gentleman almost forspent with speed. -- Shak.
Forstall (v. t.) To forestall.
[Obs.] -- Spenser.
Forster (n.) A forester. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forstraught (p. p. & a.) Distracted. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forswat (a.) Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] -- P. Sidney.
Forswore (imp.) of Forswear.
Forsworn (p. p.) of Forswear.
Forswearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forswear.
Forswear (v. t.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
I . . . do forswear her. -- Shak.
Forswear (v. i.) To deny upon oath.
Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! -- Dryden.
To forswear one's self, to swear falsely; to perjure one's self. "Thou shalt not forswear thyself." -- Matt. v. 33.
Syn: See Perjure.
Forswear (v. i.) To swear falsely; to commit perjury.
Forswearer (n.) One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
Forswonk (a.) Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Forswore () imp. of Forswear.
Forsworn () p. p. of Forswear.
Forswornness (n.) State of being forsworn. [R.]
Forsythia (a.) (Bot.) A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.
Forsythia (n.) Any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers.
Fort (n.) (Mil.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. -- Farrow.
Fort (n.) A fortified military post where troops are stationed [syn: garrison, fort].
Fort (n.) A fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort].
Fort (v.) Gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense [syn: fort, fort up].
Fort (v.) Enclose by or as if by a fortification [syn: fortify, fort].
Fort (v.) Station (troops) in a fort.
Fortalice (n.) (Mil.) A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.
Forte (n.) [義] 強音記號 The strong point; that in which one excels.
The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. -- Jeffrey.
Forte (n.) The stronger part of the blade of a sword; the part of half nearest the hilt; -- opposed to foible.
Forte (a. & adv.) (Mus.) Loudly; strongly; powerfully.
Forte (adv.) [義] 很響地，用強音 Used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly [syn: forte, loudly] [ant: piano, softly].
Forte (a.) [義] 響的，強的 Used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the forte passages in the composition" [syn: forte, loud] [ant: piano, soft].
Forte (n.) An asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte" [syn: forte, strong suit, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strength] [ant: weak point].
Forte (n.) (Music) Loud [syn: forte, fortissimo].
Forte (n.) The stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible.
Forted (a.) Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts. [R.] -- Shak.
Forth (v.) Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.
Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. -- Tyndale.
From this time forth, I never will speak word. -- Shak.
I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. -- Strype.
Forth (v.) Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. -- Dryden.
Forth (v.) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. -- Shak.
Forth (v.) Throughly; from beginning to end. [Obs.] -- Shak.
And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From.
Forth of, Forth from, out of. [Obs.] -- Shak.
To bring forth. See under Bring.
Forth (prep.) Forth from; out of. [Archaic]
Some forth their cabins peep. -- Donne.
Forth (n.) A way; a passage or ford. [Obs.] -- Todd.
Forth (adv.) 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"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth].
Forth (adv.) Forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward" [syn: forth, forward, onward].
Forth (adv.) Out into view; "came forth from the crowd"; "put my ideas forth."
Forth (n.) A river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth [syn: Forth, Forth River].
Forth, () An interactive extensible language using postfix syntax and a data stack, developed by Charles H. Moore in the 1960s. FORTH is highly user-configurable and there are many different implementations, the following description is of a typical default configuration.
Forth programs are structured as lists of "words" -- FORTH's term which encompasses language keywords, primitives and user-defined subroutines. Forth takes the idea of subroutines to an extreme - nearly everything is a subroutine.
A word is any string of characters except the separator which defaults to space. Numbers are treated specially. Words are read one at a time from the input stream and either executed immediately ("interpretive execution") or compiled as part of the definition of a new word.
The sequential nature of list execution and the implicit use of the data stack (numbers appearing in the lists are pushed to the stack as they are encountered) imply postfix syntax.
Although postfix notation is initially difficult, experienced users find it simple and efficient.
Words appearing in executable lists may be "{primitives" (simple assembly language operations), names of previously compiled procedures or other special words. A procedure definition is introduced by ":" and ended with ";" and is compiled as it is read.
Most Forth dialects include the source language structures BEGIN-AGAIN, BEGIN-WHILE-REPEAT, BEGIN-UNTIL, DO-LOOP, and IF-ELSE-THEN, and others can be added by the user. These are "compiling structures" which may only occur in a procedure definition.
FORTH can include in-line assembly language between "CODE" and "ENDCODE" or similar constructs. Forth primitives are written entirely in assembly language, secondaries contain a mixture. In fact code in-lining is the basis of compilation in some implementations.
Once assembled, primitives are used exactly like other words.
A significant difference in behaviour can arise, however, from the fact that primitives end with a jump to "NEXT", the entry point of some code called the sequencer, whereas non-primitives end with the address of the "EXIT" primitive.
The EXIT code includes the scheduler in some multi-tasking systems so a process can be descheduled after executing a non-primitive, but not after a primitive.
Forth implementations differ widely. Implementation techniques include threaded code, dedicated Forth processors, macros at various levels, or interpreters written in another language such as C. Some implementations provide real-time response, user-defined data structures, multitasking, floating-point arithmetic, and/ or virtual memory.
Some Forth systems support virtual memory without specific hardware support like MMUs. However, Forth virtual memory is usually only a sort of extended data space and does not usually support executable code.
FORTH does not distinguish between operating system calls and the language. Commands relating to I/O, file systems and virtual memory are part of the same language as the words for arithmetic, memory access, loops, IF statements, and the user's application.
Many Forth systems provide user-declared "vocabularies" which allow the same word to have different meanings in different contexts. Within one vocabulary, re-defining a word causes the previous definition to be hidden from the interpreter (and therefore the compiler), but not from previous definitions.
FORTH was first used to guide the telescope at NRAO, Kitt Peak. Moore considered it to be a fourth-generation language but his operating system wouldn't let him use six letters in a program name, so FOURTH became FORTH.
Versions include fig-FORTH, FORTH 79 and FORTH 83. FAQs ANS Forth standard, dpANS6 FORTH Interest Group, Box 1105, San Carlos CA 94070.
See also 51forth, F68K, cforth, E-Forth, FORML, TILE Forth.
[Leo Brodie, "Starting Forth"].
[Leo Brodie, "Thinking Forth"].
[Jack Woehr, "Forth, the New Model"].
[R.G. Loeliger, "Threaded Interpretive Languages"].
Forth, () FOundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. (1997-04-16)
Forthby (adv.) [Obs.] See Forby.
Forthcoming (a.) Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
Forthcoming (a.) Candid; frank; not withholding relevant information; cooperative in providing information.
Forthcoming (a.) Having an agreeable and sociable personality; friendly.
Forthcoming (a.) Available or ready at the time required; as, payment will be forthcoming on receipt of the goods.
Forthcoming (a.) At ease in talking to others [syn: extroverted, forthcoming, outgoing].
Forthcoming (a.) of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions" [syn: approaching, coming(a), forthcoming, upcoming].
Forthcoming (a.) Available when required or as promised; "federal funds were not forthcoming."
Forthgoing (n.) A going forth; an utterance. -- A. Chalmers.
Forthgoing (a.) Going forth.
Forthink (v. t.) To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." -- Tyndale.
That me forthinketh, quod this January. -- Chaucer.
Forthputing (a.) Bold; forward; aggressive.
Forthright (adv.) Straight forward; in a straight direction. [Archaic] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Forthright (a.) Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] -- Lowell.
They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. -- Emerson.
Forthright (n.) A straight path. [Archaic]
Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders! -- Shak.
Forthright (adv.) Directly and without evasion; not roundabout; "to face a problem squarely"; "the responsibility lies squarely with them"; "spoke forthright (or forthrightly) and to the point" [syn: squarely, forthrightly, forthright].
Forthright (a.) Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think -- and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder].
Forthrightness (n.) Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic]
Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. -- Hawthorne.
Forthrightness (n.) The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness, forthrightness].
Forthward (adv.) Forward. [Obs.] -- Bp. Fisher.
Forthwith (adv.) 立即，馬上，毫不猶豫地 Immediately; without delay; directly.
Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith. -- Acts ix. 18.