Father
(n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter |
Father
(n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent |
Father
(n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. |
Father
(n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man. |
Father
(n.) A senator of ancient Rome. |
Father
(n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest |
Father
(n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ |
Father
(n.) One who, or that which, gives origin |
Father
(n.) The Supreme Being and Creator |
Father
(v. t.) To make one's self the father of |
Father
(v. t.) To take as one's own child |
Father
(v. t.) To provide with a father. |
Father-in-law
(n.) The father of one's husband or wife |
Father-lasher
(n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin |
Father longlegs
() See Daddy longlegs, 2. |
Figure
(n.) The form of anything |
Figure
(n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc. |
Figure
(n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article |
Figure
(n.) A diagram or drawing |
Figure
(n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person |
Figure
(n.) Distinguished appearance |
Figure
(n.) A character or symbol representing a number |
Figure
(n.) Value, as expressed in numbers |
Figure
(n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. |
Figure
(n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world |
Figure
(n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. |
Figure
(n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer. |
Figure
(n.) A horoscope |
Figure
(n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. |
Figure
(n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage |
Figure
(n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold |
Figure
(n.) To embellish with design |
Figure
(n.) To indicate by numerals |
Figure
(n.) To represent by a metaphor |
Figure
(n.) To prefigure |
Figure
(n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. |
Figure
(n.) To embellish. |
Figure
(v. t.) To make a figure |
Figure
(v. t.) To calculate |
| figure skating | ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures |
| figure | a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating, she made the best score on compulsory figures |
| figure eight | a skating figure that carves an in the ice |
design
pattern
figure | a decorative or artistic work, the coach had a design on the doors |
| figure | a model of a bodily form (especially of a person), he made a figure of Santa Claus |
figure eight
figure of eight | a knot having the shape of the numeral , tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose |
figure loom
figured-fabric loom | a loom for weaving figured fabrics |
| figure skate | an ice skate worn for figure skating, has a slightly curved blade and a row of jagged points at the front of the blade |
| lay figure | dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body |
| stick figure | drawing of a human or animal that represents the head by a circle and the rest of the body by straight lines |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
waxwork
wax figure | an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax |
| figure | the impression produced by a person, he cut a fine figure, a heroic figure |
number
figure | the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals, he had a number of chores to do, the number of parameters is small, the figure was about a thousand |
e human body
physical body
material body
soma
build
figure
physique
anatomy
shape
bod
chassis
frame form
flesh | alternative names for the body of a human being, Leonardo studied the human body, he has a strong physique, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
| figure | a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground |
figure
fig | a diagram or picture illustrating textual material, the area covered can be seen from Figure |
trope
figure of speech
figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
Father Father-God
Fatherhood | God when considered as the first person in the Trinity, hear our prayers, Heavenly Father |
| Father Brown | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton |
| Apostle Apostelic Father | any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people |
| authority figure | someone who is regarded as an authority by someone else |
Church Father
Father of the Church
Father | (Christianity) any of abouttheologians in the period from the nd to the th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church, the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome, those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom |
| city father | an important municipal official |
| don father | the head of an organized crime family |
father
male parent
begetter | a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father), his father was born in Atlanta |
| Father Padre | `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church), `Padre' is frequently used in the military |
| father | a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization, the tennis fathers ruled in her favor, the city fathers endorsed the proposal |
father figure
father surrogate | a man who takes over all the functions of the real father |
| father-figure | a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically |
| father-in-law | the father of your spouse |
forefather
father sire | the founder of a family, keep the faith of our forefathers |
foster-father
foster father | a man who is a foster parent |
founder
beginner founding father
father | a person who founds or establishes some institution, George Washington is the father of his country |
| Founding Father | a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in |
| mother figure | a woman who evokes the feelings usually reserved for a mother |
name
figure
public figure | a well-known or notable person, they studied all the great names in the history of France, she is an important figure in modern music |
| Pilgrim Pilgrim Father | one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in |
pope
Catholic Pope
Roman Catholic Pope
pontiff
Holy Father
Vicar of Christ
Bishop of Rome | the head of the Roman Catholic Church |
Santa Claus
Santa
Kriss Kringle
Father Christmas
Saint Nicholas Saint Nick
St. Nick | the legendary patron saint of children, an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas |
Bushnell
David Bushnell
Father of the Submarine | American inventor who in designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (-) |
De Forest
Lee De Forest
Father of Radio | United States electrical engineer who inpatented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (-) |
| figure | an amount of money expressed numerically, a figure of $ was suggested |
digit
figure | one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration, and are digits |
significant digit
significant figure | any digit of a number that is known with certainty, any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value), he calculated the answer to four significant figures |
| figure of merit | a numerical expression representing the efficiency of a given system, material, or procedure |
| figure | a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape |
plane figure
two-dimensional figure | a two-dimensional shape |
solid figure
three-dimensional figure | a three-dimensional shape |
| Father's Day | US: third Sunday in June |