fair
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Is fair a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (original sense, archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.Examples: "Monday's child is fair of face."; "There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid."; "He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des."Synonyms: beautiful, pretty, lovelyarchaicliterary
2. (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.Examples: "I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]"
3. (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
4. (baseball) Between the baselines.
5. (rugby, of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
6. (cricket, of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no ball.
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.Examples: "Love and Hymen, hand in hand, Come, restore the nuptial band! And sincere delights prepare To crown the hero and the fair."; "Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”"; "If single, probably his plighted Fair Has in his absence wedded some rich miser […]."obsolete
2. (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.Examples: "My decayed fair"obsolete
3. (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.Examples: "Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).transitive
2. (transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).transitive
3. (transitive, art) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.Examples: "Since the sequence of data contain sampling noises, the captured motion is not smooth and wiggles along the moving path. There are well-known fairing algorithms in Euclidean space based on difference geometry."transitive
4. (transitive) To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.Examples: "Two forward cars were provided with the model. One of these (shown detached in Fig. 1) was faired at its after end, with a view to possible reduction of head resistance, and to induce a better flow of air to the propeller."Synonyms: to streamlinetransitive
5. (transitive, obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.Examples: "Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face"obsoletetransitive
6. (intransitive, of weather) To become fair (favorable, not stormy).Examples: "[The] weather faired, and toward midday we were again facing the fringe of breakers from the cliffs."intransitive
adv (English)
1. (Ireland) Almost; to a great extent but not literally.Examples: ""I'm fair moidered to know what to do wid him," she confessed to the rosy-cheeked Bridget one day."; ""I just want to get me blasted boots off and soak me poor feet, they're fair killing me, what with chilblains and corns, me toes are fair screaming.""; ""We were at Egyptian Hall last night and the poor lady was overwhelmed with messages - they fair exhausted her.""Ireland
noun (English)
1. (data management) Acronym of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability, a set of principles for data management.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary