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F in Print and Proverb
- n. a euphemism. <He shocked everyone by using the F word.>

- n. the sixth letter of the alphabet.
 <Take the F from life and you have lie. —James Thurber, "The Wonderful O.">

- n. any spoken sound represented by the letter.
 <The sound vibration of the consonant F means "faith." —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understanding Your Name.>

- n. a written representation of the letter.

- n. a device, such as a printer's type, for reproducing letter.

- abbrev. feather.
 <You could have knocked me down with a f. —P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves.>

- n. something designated F.
 <Books
you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F?
O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. —James Joyce, Ulysses.>

- n. someone called F.
 <Uncle F left me a small landscape painting I'd once admired. —Iain Banks, The Business.>

- (in literature) the title of a film from the Czech Republic, written and directed by Janja Glogovac.

Facts and Figures
- Until 1822, the letter F (for "fray-maker") was branded on the cheeks of people who fought in church.

Keys and Scales
- n. the fourth note in a C-major musical scale.

- n. a written or printed musical note.

- n. a string, key, or pipe tuned to the note F.

Layers and Levels
- n. a layer of the ionosphere, as in the "F layer."
 <The
F-layer appears a few hours after sunset, when the F1- and F2-layer
merge. The F-layer is located between 250-500km altitude. Even well
into the night, this layer may reflect radio waves up to 20 MHz, and
occasionally even up to 25 MHz. —WWDX Propogation College.>

- n. the sixth in a series.

- n. a non-passing grade in school indicating "failing."
 <Not enough comments on it, insufficient explanation of her F. —William H. Gass, The Tunnel.>

- n. one graded with an F. <an F student>

Miscellaneous
- n. a medieval Roman numeral for 40.

- n. something arbitrarily designated F (e.g. a person, place, or other thing).

Scientific Matters
- n. (chemistry) the symbol for the element fluorine in the Periodic Table.

- n. (physics) The Faraday constant F equals the
amount of charge that must pass through a solution to electrolytically
deposit a mole of a singly charged, or monovalent element contained in
the solution.

- n. (physics) a state of atomic energy.

- n. (biology) phenylalanine, an amino acid.

Find dozens more F's in the upcoming print edition of the Dictionary of One Letter Words! Details forthcoming.
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