fair

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.

   • Monday's child is fair of face.
   • There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.
   • He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.
2. 2

   Unblemished (figuratively or literally)

   Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

   • one's fair name
   • After scratching out and replacing various words in the manuscript, he scribed a fair copy to send to the publisher.
   • The Table hauing at the Communion time a faire white linnen cloth vpon it, shall stand in the body of the Church, or in the Chancell, where Morning prayer and Euening prayer be appointed to be said.
3. 3

   Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond…

   Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.

   • She had fair hair and blue eyes.
   • the northern people large and fair-complexioned
   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
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   1. 4

      Just.

      • He must be given a fair trial.
      • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
   2. 5

      Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.

      • Their performance has been only fair.
      • The patient was in a fair condition after some treatment.
   3. 6

      Favorable to a ship's course.

      • I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]
   4. 7

      Favorable, pleasant.

      • The weather was fair today.
   5. 8

      Without sudden change of direction or curvature

      Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

   6. 9

      Between the baselines.

   7. 10

      Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another…

      Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.

   8. 11

      Not a no ball.

   9. 12

      Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.

      • A fair coin has a 50% chance of landing on heads.
   10. 13

       Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).

       • When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
   11. 14

       A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’

       A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.

       • Love and Hymen, hand in hand, Come, restore the nuptial band! And sincere delights prepare To crown the hero and the fair.
       • If single, probably his plighted Fair Has in his absence wedded some rich miser […].
   12. 15

       Fairness, beauty.

       • My decayed fair
   13. 16

       A fair woman

       A fair woman; a sweetheart.

       • I have found out a gift for my fair.
   14. 17

       Good fortune

       Good fortune; good luck.

       • Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
   15. 18

       To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).

   16. 19

       To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural…

       To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).

   17. 20

       To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.

       • Since the sequence of data contain sampling noises, the captured motion is not smooth and wiggles along the moving path. There are well-known fairing algorithms in Euclidean space based on difference geometry.
   18. 21

       To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or…

       To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.

       • Two forward cars were provided with the model. One of these (shown detached in Fig. 1) was faired at its after end, with a view to possible reduction of head resistance, and to induce a better flow of air to the propeller.
   19. 22

       To make fair or beautiful.

       • Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face
   20. 23

       To become fair (favorable, not stormy).

       • [The] weather faired, and toward midday we were again facing the fringe of breakers from the cliffs.
       • ... weather "faired off" next morning, and we were not a bit sorry to mark time for a couple of days while the water went down.
       • ... weather faired up but there was no thought of delay; it was time for Texas to move forward and form a new, independent government. In an effort to combat the frigid conditions, the delegates nailed thin pieces of cloth over the[…]
   21. 24

       Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.

   22. 25

       Almost

       Almost; to a great extent but not literally.

       • "I'm fair moidered to know what to do wid him," she confessed to the rosy-cheeked Bridget one day.
       • "I just want to get me blasted boots off and soak me poor feet, they're fair killing me, what with chilblains and corns, me toes are fair screaming."
       • "We were at Egyptian Hall last night and the poor lady was overwhelmed with messages - they fair exhausted her."
   23. 26

       A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.

   24. 27

       An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.

   25. 28

       An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade…

       An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.

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       A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling)…

       A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).

   27. 30

       A surname.

   28. 31

       Acronym of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability, a set of…

       Acronym of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability, a set of principles for data management.

   29. 32

       Acronym of Federation for American Immigration Reform.

   30. 33

       Acronym of Facebook AI Research.

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