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  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.
  • non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-centered — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-selected — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
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