English Words: F

18,613 words · Page 144 of 373

A three- or five-day cricket match, with two innings per side, played under a set of conditions specified and officially recognised by an official governing body of cricket.

First Coastname

A seaboard region comprising the Florida Atlantic coast near St. Augustine and Jacksonville.

first come, first servedphrase

One will be dealt with in the order in which one arrives.

first conditionalnoun

A structure used to convey possible events in the present or future, containing an if clause (with a verb in the present tense) and a main clause (with the future expressed by will + an infinitive verb).

first contactnoun

The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures.

First Contact Daynoun

April 5th, an annual occasion to celebrate Star Trek.

first cosmic velocityname

The velocity in a circular orbit about the Earth.

first cousinnoun

A child of a parent's sibling; a nephew or niece of a parent; a child of one's uncle or aunt.

first cousin once removednoun

A first cousin's child.

First Dayname

Sunday (the first day of the Judeo-Christian seven day week).

first deathadj

Describing a joint life insurance policy that pays out (and then terminates) in the event that either of the lives assured die.

first declensionnoun

In Latin, a pattern of inflection of a group of nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which have an -a- in their stems.

first dibsnoun

The first choice, a preference (on something).

first divisionnoun

The half of the standings containing the teams with the best records.

first e-rightsnoun

The right to publish a work for the first time in electronic form.

first familynoun

A nuclear family that is or was a First Family, when speaking non-specifically.

first fiddlenoun

The fiddle part generally carrying the melody.

first flushnoun

The first growth of buds, flowers, seeds, or whatever is harvested from a plant.

first footingnoun

The practice, during Hogmanay, of visiting friends and family, especially to be the first person to cross a home's threshold after midnight on New Year's Eve bearing a small gift.

first freedom rightsnoun

The right of an airline of one country to fly over the territory of another country without stopping.

first fruitsnoun

The first part of a harvest; sometimes made into an offering

first fundamental formnoun

the Riemannian metric for 2-dimensional manifolds, i.e. given a surface with regular parametrization x(u,v), the first fundamental form is a set of three functions, {E, F, G}, dependent on u and v, which give information about local intrinsic curvature of the surface. These functions are given by

first gearnoun

The first gear of a transmission or other gearbox, which usually is the one that provides the lowest output speed and greatest mechanical advantage, except in setups in which there is a granny gear.

First Gentlemannoun

The husband (or man of similar rank) of a chief executive of a nation; especially the husband of the President of a country.

first halfnoun

The period of play before half time, as opposed to the second half.

first impressionnoun

The event when one person first encounters another person and forms a mental image of them. ᵂᵖ

first in first outnoun

A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory.

first island chainname

The first chain of major archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. Principally composed of the Kuril Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the northern Philippines, Japan, and Borneo; from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Malay Peninsula.

First Laddienoun

A man who is the spouse of a sitting president.

first ladynoun

The leading woman in a specified field of endeavor.

first ladyshipnoun

The state or condition of being a first lady.

first languagenoun

The first language one is taught to speak; one's native language.

First Law of Roboticsname

One of the Three Laws of Robotics, forbidding a robot to harm a human, through either action or inaction.

first losernoun

Second place.

first lovenoun

One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love.

First Mexican Empirename

Alternative form of Mexican Empire

first ministernoun

The principal minister of a ruler or state.

First Monthname

January, the first month of the year.

first movernoun

The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.

first namenoun

The first element of a full name, particularly when it could also be surname in East Asian and other cultural traditions.

First Nationnoun

A community of indigenous peoples of Canada (typically not including the Inuit or Metis), especially one officially recognized by the federal government.

First Nationernoun

A member of a Canadian First Nation.

First Nationsadj

Of or pertaining to a First Nation or First Nations collectively.

first nightnoun

The first public performance of a play or other show, normally assumed to be held in the evening.

first normal formnoun

A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a separate table connected by a primary-key/foreign-key relationship.

first notice daynoun

The first day on which an investor who holds a futures contract is notified that the commodity specified in the contract is about to be delivered.

first of alladv

Firstly; before anything else.

first of nevernoun

A nonexistent day; a day that will never come.

first olive out of the bottlenoun

An initial obstacle or hindrance, preventing further progress until it is dealt with.

first order of the daynoun

An item of business that will be discussed before any other item on a particular day when a legislature is sitting.

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