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. |
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 |
regional anatomy topographic anatomy topology | the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region |
fairness fair-mindedness candor candour | ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty |
fair copy | a clean copy of a corrected draft |
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 |
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 |
regional anesthesia regional anaesthesia | loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth) |
regional enteritis regional ileitis Crohn's disease | a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss |
fair | join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly |
bonny bonnie comely fair sightly | very pleasing to the eye, my bonny lass, there's a bonny bay beyond, a comely face, young fair maidens |
fair fairish | (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored, a fair complexion, |
fair | free of clouds or rain, today will be fair and warm |
fair | (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines, he hit a fair ball over the third base bag |
fair just | free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, conforming with established standards or rules, a fair referee, fair deal, on a fair footing, a fair fight, by fair means or foul |
fair-minded | of a person, just and impartial, not prejudiced |
fair-and-square | just and honest |
honest fair | gained or earned without cheating or stealing, an honest wage, an fair penny |
clean fair | (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections, fair copy, a clean manuscript |
blue-eyed(a) fair-haired(a) white-haired(a) | favorite, the fair-haired boy of the literary set |
fair(a) | attractively feminine, the fair sex |
fair fairish reasonable | not excessive or extreme, a fairish income, reasonable prices |
average fair mediocre middling | lacking exceptional quality or ability, a novel of average merit, only a fair performance of the sonata, in fair health, the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average, the performance was middling at best |
adequate passable fair to middling tolerable | about average, acceptable, more than adequate as a secretary |
regional | related or limited to a particular region, a regional dialect |
regional | characteristic of a region, regional flora |
fairly fair evenhandedly | without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner, deal fairly with one another |
fairly fair clean | in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating, they played fairly |