| fair ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field |
| fair catch | (American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled |
| carnival fair funfair | a traveling show, having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| fair trade | trade that is conducted legally |
| fair trade | trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers, often with other social and environmental considerations |
bazaar
fair | a sale of miscellany, often for charity, the church bazaar |
book fair
bookfair | bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause |
| craft fair | a fair at which objects made by craftsmen are offered for sale |
| fair hearing | a hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or loss of welfare benefits) |
| vanity fair | a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities |
fair chance
sporting chance | a reasonable probability of success |
| fair use | the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties |
fairness
fair-mindedness
candor
candour | ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty |
| fair copy | a clean copy of a corrected draft |
appointment book
appointment calendar | a book containing a calendar and space to keep a record of appointments |
| almanac farmer's calendar | an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year |
| calendar | a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc), I have you on my calendar for next Monday |
| fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
| fair-trade act | formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from priceutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise, eliminated by the United States Congress in |
fair deal
square deal | fair treatment |
| calendar | a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) |
| perpetual calendar | a chart or mechanical device that indicates the days of the week corresponding to any given date over a long period of years |
| fair | a competitive exhibition of farm products, she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair |
book fair
bookfair | fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books |
| fair | gathering of producers to promote business, world fair, trade fair, book fair |
womanhood
woman
fair sex | women as a class, it's an insult to American womanhood, woman is the glory of creation, the fair sex gathered on the veranda |
prey
quarry
target
fair game | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence, he fell prey to muggers, everyone was fair game, the target of a manhunt |
fair weather
sunshine temperateness | moderate weather, suitable for outdoor activities |
meadow saxifrage
fair-maids-of-France
Saxifraga granulata | rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers, Europe |
| week calendar week | a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday |
calendar day
civil day | a day reckoned from midnight to midnight |
| calendar | a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year |
| Roman calendar | the lunar calendar in use in ancient Rome, replaced by the Julian calendar in BC |
Gregorian calendar
New Style calendar | the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressingdays, making Oct be called Oct , and providing that only centenary years divisible by should be leap years, it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in |
Julian calendar
Old Style calendar | the solar calendar introduced in Rome in b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the -month year of days with each th year having days and the months having ordays except for February |
| Revolutionary calendar | the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in and abandoned in , dates were calculated from Sept. , |
| Revolutionary calendar month | a month in the Revolutionary calendar |
Jewish calendar
Hebrew calendar | (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews, dates from BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world), a lunar year of days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years |
| lunar calendar | a calendar based on lunar cycles |
| lunisolar calendar | a calendar based on both lunar and solar cycles |
| solar calendar | a calendar based on solar cycles |
Islamic calendar
Muhammadan calendar
Mohammedan calendar
Moslem calendar
Muslim calendar | the lunar calendar used by Muslims, dates from AD (the year of the Hegira), the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every years |
| Hindu calendar | the lunisolar calendar governing the religious life of Hindus, an extra month is inserted after every month in which there are two new moons (once every three years) |
church calendar
ecclesiastical calendar | a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals |
calendar year
civil year | the year (reckoned from January to December ) according to Gregorian calendar |
calendar month
month | one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year, he paid the bill last month |
| Gregorian calendar month | a month in the Gregorian calendar |
| Jewish calendar month | a month in the Jewish calendar |
| Islamic calendar month | any lunar month in the Muslim calendar |