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Floss
- noun -
- a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
- a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
Flows
- noun - any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
- cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
- cover or swamp with water
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
- fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
- move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
Flubs
- noun - an embarrassing mistake
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Flues
- noun - a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
Foals
- noun - a young horse
- give birth to a foal; "the mare foaled"
Foams
- noun - a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture
- a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam"
- become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"
Focus
- noun - a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection"
- a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
- a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
- become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused"
- bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
- cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image"
- direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; "in focus"; "out of focus"
- put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"
- special emphasis attached to something; "the stre
Fohns
- noun - a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps
Foils
- noun - a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
- cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
- enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
- Fencing sword
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
Folds
- noun -
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a group of sheep or goats
- a pen for sheep
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
- become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
- the act of folding; "he gave the napkins a double fold"