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  • 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.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • 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.
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for dear life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • 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
  • indifferently — without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • ordered field — Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • preferred lie — a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player.
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • 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.
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