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field of battle |
Noun
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a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought |
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field of honor |
Noun
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a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought |
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field of honor |
Noun
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the scene of a duel |
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firmament |
Noun
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the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected |
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fatherland |
Noun
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the country where you were born |
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fence line |
Noun
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a boundary line created by a fence |
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federal district |
Noun
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a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation |
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flight line |
Noun
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place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways) |
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faubourg |
Noun
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a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits |
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fairway |
Noun
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the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short |
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fairway |
Noun
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a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement |
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fairway |
Noun
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the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters |
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farmland |
Noun
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a rural area where farming is practiced |
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farmland |
Noun
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arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops |
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farming area |
Noun
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a rural area where farming is practiced |
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fault line |
Noun
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line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface |
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field of fire |
Noun
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the area that a weapon or group of weapons can cover effectively with gun fire from a given position |
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finishing line |
Noun
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a line indicating the location of the finish of a race |
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finish line |
Noun
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a line indicating the location of the finish of a race |
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firebreak |
Noun
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a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire |
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flea market |
Noun
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an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles |
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flies |
Noun
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(theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains) |
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foul line |
Noun
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lines through 1st and 3rd base indicating the boundaries of a baseball field |
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foul line |
Noun
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a line across a bowling alley that a bowler must not cross |
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foul line |
Noun
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a line from which basketball players take penalty shots |
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front end |
Noun
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the side that is forward or prominent |
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forepart |
Noun
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the side that is forward or prominent |
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front line |
Noun
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the line along which opposing armies face each other |
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field of operations |
Noun
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a region in which active military operations are in progress |
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free port |
Noun
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a port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels |
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free port |
Noun
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an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties |
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free zone |
Noun
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an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties |
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fairground |
Noun
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an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses |
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flyway |
Noun
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the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate |
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free state |
Noun
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any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War |
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formicary |
Noun
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a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest |
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flake |
Noun
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a small fragment of something broken off from the whole |
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flake |
Noun
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a person with an unusual or odd personality |
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flake |
Noun
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a crystal of snow |
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flake |
Verb
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come off in flakes or thin small pieces |
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flake |
Verb
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cover with flakes or as if with flakes |
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flake |
Verb
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form into flakes |
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full radiator |
Noun
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a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it |
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folium |
Noun
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a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock |
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fomite |
Noun
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any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another |
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fecalith |
Noun
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a hard mass of fecal matter |
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foothill |
Noun
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a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain |
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faecalith |
Noun
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a hard mass of fecal matter |
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footwall |
Noun
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the lower wall of an inclined fault |
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foreland |
Noun
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land forming the forward margin of something |