far

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Distant

   Distant; remote in space.

   • He went to a far land.
   • And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.
2. 2

   Remote in time.

   • the far far future
3. 3

   Long.

   • I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
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   1. 4

      More remote of two.

      • At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
      • See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
      • He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
   2. 5

      Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

      • They are on the far right on this issue.
      • He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.
   3. 6

      Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.

      • As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.
      • Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?
      • The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is a far remove from adaptations that follow.
   4. 7

      Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

      • far heap; far memory; far pointer
   5. 8

      To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

      • You have all come far and you will go further.
      • He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
      • Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
   6. 9

      Very much

      Very much; by a great amount.

      • He was far richer than we'd thought.
      • The expense far exceeds what I expected.
      • I saw a tiny figure far below me.
   7. 10

      To send far away.

      • But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
      • […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.
   8. 11

      Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.

      • A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
      • Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'
   9. 12

      A litter of piglets

      A litter of piglets; a farrow.

   10. 13

       Initialism of floor area ratio.

   11. 14

       Initialism of Federal Aviation Regulations.

   12. 15

       Initialism of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

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