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fair¹

  • /ˈfɛə/ UK
  • [ˈfɛə̯] UK
  • [ˈfɛː] UK
  • /ˈfɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɛː] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfeː/ Australia
  • [ˈfeː] Australia
  • /ˈfeə/
  • [ˈfe̝ə]
  • /ˈfiə/
  • [ˈfiə]
  • /ˈfɜː(ɹ)/
  • [ˈfɜː(ɹ)]
  • /ˈfɛɚ/ Canada, US
  • [ˈfɛɹ] ~ [ˈfɛɹ̩] Canada, US
  • /ˈfeɾ/ Scotland
  • [ˈfe(ː)ɾ] Scotland

Sounds like fare, fear (cheer–chair merger), fir (fair–fur merger), fur (fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English fayr, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (“appropriate, fitting, nice, suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach, join; agreement, settlement”).

Cognates

Cognate with Old High German and Old Saxon fagar (“beautiful, fair”), Danish fager, favr (“fair, pretty, wonderful”), Faroese and Icelandic fagur (“beautiful, fair”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fager (“fair, pretty”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐍂𐍃 (fagrs, “fair, proper”), Estonian vapper (“brave, courageous”), Finnish vauras (“substantial, wealthy”); also Latin pāx (“peace; ease, quiet, rest”), Umbrian pase (“peace”), Belarusian пе́кны (pjékny, “beautiful”), Czech pěkný (“nice; pretty”), Polish piekny, piękny (“beautiful; admirable, praiseworthy”), Slovak pekný (“nice; pretty”), Sanskrit पाश॑ (pā́śa, “bond, cord, noose; nature, outer world; border, edge, selvage”). See also peace.

adjective fairer · fairest · faire

  1. archaic, literary Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. Monday's child is fair of face.
  2. Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent. one's fair name
  3. 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.
  4. Just. He must be given a fair trial.
  5. Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent. Their performance has been only fair.
  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; […]
  7. Favorable, pleasant. The weather was fair today.
  8. Not overcast; cloudless; clear. a fair sky
  9. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc. a fair mark;  in fair sight;  a fair view
  10. Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
  11. Between the baselines.
  12. Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
  13. Not a no ball.
  14. 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.

noun fair · faire

  1. Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective). When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
  2. obsolete 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.
  3. obsolete Fairness, beauty. My decayed fair
  4. A fair woman; a sweetheart. I have found out a gift for my fair.
  5. obsolete Good fortune; good luck. Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!

verb fairs · fairing · faired · faire

  1. transitive To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
  2. transitive To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
  3. transitive 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.
  4. transitive 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.
  5. obsolete, transitive To make fair or beautiful. Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face
  6. intransitive To become fair (favorable, not stormy). [The] weather faired, and toward midday we were again facing the fringe of breakers from the cliffs.

adverb more fair · fairer · most fair · fairest · faire

  1. Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.
  2. Ireland 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.

fair²

  • /ˈfɛə/ UK
  • [ˈfɛə̯] UK
  • [ˈfɛː] UK
  • /ˈfɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɛː] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfeː/ Australia
  • [ˈfeː] Australia
  • /ˈfeə/
  • [ˈfe̝ə]
  • /ˈfiə/
  • [ˈfiə]
  • /ˈfɜː(ɹ)/
  • [ˈfɜː(ɹ)]
  • /ˈfɛɚ/ Canada, US
  • [ˈfɛɹ] ~ [ˈfɛɹ̩] Canada, US
  • /ˈfeɾ/ Scotland
  • [ˈfe(ː)ɾ] Scotland

Sounds like fare, fear (cheer–chair merger), fir (fair–fur merger), fur (fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English feyre, from Old French foire, from Latin fēriae.

noun fairs

  1. A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
  2. An event for public entertainment and trade, a market. The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened on
  3. An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
  4. A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English). The whole town was at the fair, young and old, rich and poor.

Fair³

proper noun

  1. A surname.

FAIR⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability, a set of principles for data management.findability

proper noun

  1. US, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Federation for American Immigration Reform.Federation for American Immigration Reform While there is no official definition of sanctuaries, FAIR counted any jurisdiction that bans police or other officials from asking about immigration status, forbids communication with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or refuses to hold likely deportees for pickup by ICE.
  2. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Facebook AI Research.Facebook AI Research

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