"Spanish fidelismo , from Fidel Castro + Spanish -ismo -ism":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)f\u012b\u02c8del-",
"fi\u02c8d-",
"\u02c8f\u0113d\u1d4al\u02cciz\u0259m",
"f\u0113\u02c8del-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062443",
"type":[
"noun",
"noun or adjective"
]
},
"Fidelista":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an adherent of Castroism":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1960, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from American Spanish, from Fidel castro (ruz) + Spanish -ista -ist entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccf\u0113-d\u0259-\u02c8l\u0113-st\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174730",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiddle":{
"antonyms":[
"fidget",
"jerk",
"jig",
"jiggle",
"squiggle",
"squirm",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"toss",
"twist",
"twitch",
"wiggle",
"wriggle",
"writhe"
],
"definitions":{
": a device (such as a slat, rack, or light railing) to keep objects from sliding off a table aboard ship":[],
": cheat , swindle":[],
": fiddlesticks":[
"\u2014 used as an interjection"
],
": meddle , tamper":[],
": swindle":[],
": to alter or manipulate deceptively for fraudulent gain":[
"accountants fiddling the books",
"\u2014 Stanley Cohen"
],
": to make minor manual movements especially to adjust something":[
"fiddled with the radio knobs"
],
": to move the hands or fingers restlessly":[],
": to play (something) on a fiddle":[
"fiddle a tune"
],
": to play on a fiddle":[],
": to spend time in aimless or fruitless activity : putter , tinker":[
"fiddled around with the engine for hours"
],
": violin":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"an expert with the fiddle",
"arrested for a tax fiddle",
"Verb",
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned.",
"the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The recluse spiders, commonly known as fiddle -back or violin spiders, belong to a variety of spiders in the genus Loxosceles. \u2014 al , 28 June 2022",
"The sound, fiddle -driven, is positively jaunty, considering the circumstances, a blues tradition. \u2014 Barry Mazor, WSJ , 29 Mar. 2022",
"In a 1952 contest in West Texas, Jim won the fiddle division while his father triumphed in the guitar category. \u2014 News Services And Staff Reports, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"Commenced with a fiddle introduction that evoked the long, slow moan of a steam-train whistle, the Zeppelin staple shook with Malian-leaning rhythms. \u2014 Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Born in Sidney, Texas to oilman and musician Wayland Seals, the rocker was a fiddle champion in his youth, and later took up the saxophone. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
"In a 1952 contest in west Texas, Jim won the fiddle division while his father triumphed in the guitar category. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 7 June 2022",
"There are elegies and aubades, fiddle tunes and field recordings. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Classical piano virtuoso by Lisa Weiss, klezmer and jazz woodwind by Seth Kibel, mandolin by Joel-Michael-Schwartz, and hammered dulcimer player and old-time fiddle by Ken Kolodner. \u2014 John Coffren, Baltimore Sun , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"His hands fiddle with the bottom of his shirt, exposing a soft belly. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, the Internet burns while partisans fiddle . \u2014 Jill Goldenziel, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"After work, Hern\u00e1n \u2014 who saw three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan during his 15 years of service \u2014 and his Marine buddies would deconstruct and fiddle with machines in his garage. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"The other three here, from Rolex, Tag Heuer and Omega, also stress utility with their prominent crowns and dials that would benefit a wearer too focused on the task at hand to fiddle with their watch. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Researchers need to fiddle with the amounts or efficiency of the various enzymes engineered into the microbes to optimize the production of carminic acid and reduce the amounts of undesired byproducts. \u2014 Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"To get his ship moving, Toe will have to fiddle with all sorts of machinery in and out of water, as well as make upgrades and repairs to the ship. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
"His hands fiddle with the cap of a large Acqua Panna water bottle, ripping out the lid\u2019s plastic innards. \u2014 Lauren Larson, Men's Health , 21 Mar. 2022",
"This means there'll be no need to fiddle with cards or apps to unlock the charger. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English fithele, fethill, fydel, going back to Old English *fithele (assumed from the derivative fithelere \"fiddler\"), going back to Germanic *fi\u00fel\u014d- (whence Middle Dutch vedele \"stringed instrument,\" Old High German fidula, fidala, Old Norse fi\u00f0la ), perhaps of onomatopoeic origin":"Noun",
"Middle English fithelyn, fydelin, derivative of fithele, fydel fiddle entry 1":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fi-d\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114639",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fiddle (around)":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to spend time in activity that does not have a real purpose":[
"They spent hours just fiddling around when they should have been working."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205238",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"fiddle about":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to spend time in activity that does not have a real purpose":[
"They spent hours just fiddling about when they should have been working."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070536",
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
]
},
"fiddle around":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to spend time in activity that does not have a real purpose":[
"They spent hours just fiddling around when they should have been working."
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200320",
"type":[
"idiom"
]
},
"fiddle away":{
"antonyms":[
"conserve"
],
"definitions":{
": to fritter away":[
"fiddling away the time"
]
},
"examples":[
"fiddled away the entire evening surfing the Internet"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1667, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"lose",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"trifle (away)",
"waste"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014141",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fiddle-faddle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": nonsense":[
"\u2014 often used as an interjection"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1577, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"reduplication of fiddle (fiddlesticks)":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fi-d\u1d4al-\u02ccfa-d\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172628",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiddle-footed":{
"antonyms":[
"imperturbable",
"nerveless",
"unexcitable",
"unflappable",
"unshakable"
],
"definitions":{
": prone to wander":[
"the nameless fiddle-footed drifters, the shifty riders who traveled the back trails",
"\u2014 Luke Short"
],
": skittish , jumpy":[
"a fiddle-footed horse"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccfi-d\u1d4al-\u02c8fu\u0307-t\u0259d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"excitable",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hyper",
"hyperactive",
"hyperexcitable",
"hyperkinetic",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"skittery",
"skittish",
"spasmodic",
"spooky"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162157",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fiddler beetle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a root-girdling beetle ( Prepodes vittatus or a related species) destructive to citrus in Jamaica":[],
": any of certain beetles: such as":[],
": fiddleback":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202845",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiddler crab":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Uca ) of burrowing crabs in which the male has one claw that is greatly enlarged":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"See a small fiddler crab scuttling along a log; a skink's dark and half-closed eye; a tiny green buffalo treehopper clinging, upside-down, to a leaf; a Brazilian verbena flower so small that dozens could fit on a quarter. \u2014 Star Tribune , 29 June 2021",
"Studies ranged from developing an algorithm to predict oil slicks when satellite images aren\u2019t available, to a way of using fiddler crabs and snails to monitor the health of Louisiana salt marshes. \u2014 Eric Niiler, Wired , 22 Apr. 2020",
"The elegant shorebird, with its curved needle beak, racing stripe above the eye, and the long legs of a wader, picked its way through Loagy Bay salt marsh in Wellfleet, plucking fiddler crabs from their finger-thick burrows in the mud. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Sep. 2019",
"When fiddler crab burrows were tucked among the vegetation, little extra gas was released. \u2014 Science | AAAS , 15 Aug. 2019",
"The fiddler crabs are like little invertebrate peacocks. \u2014 James Gorman, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2018",
"From the coast, anglers continue to report limit catches of sheepshead from rockpiles and around the gas wells on cut shrimp or fiddler crabs fished on bottom. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, AL.com , 30 Mar. 2018",
"Is there more to find out about fiddler crab mating",
"Hit the right stretch of jetty or the right oyster reef on a mild, relatively calm day, bait hooks with fiddler crabs or shrimp and fish them close to the structure and landing a five-fish limit of sheepshead can be almost a cinch. \u2014 Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle , 3 Feb. 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1843, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182732",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiddlesticks":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a violin bow":[],
": nonsense":[
"\u2014 used as an interjection"
],
": something of little value : trifle":[
"didn't care a fiddlestick for that"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fi-d\u1d4al-\u02ccstik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093846",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fiddling":{
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"major",
"material",
"meaningful",
"momentous",
"significant",
"substantial",
"unfrivolous",
"weighty"
],
"definitions":{
": the act of playing on a fiddle":[
"\u2026 Schwarz brings up an orchestra member to do some country fiddling \u2026",
"\u2014 Heidi Waleson",
"One of the most compelling qualities of Southern fiddling is the rhythm.",
"\u2014 Augusta Heritage Center"
],
": trifling , petty":[
"a fiddling excuse"
]
},
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"you should delegate these fiddling matters to your staff so that you can focus on more important issues"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1652, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fid-li\u014b",
"\u02c8fi-d\u1d4al-i\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"foolish",
"frivolous",
"incidental",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minor",
"minute",
"negligible",
"nugatory",
"slight",
"small",
"small-fry",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111004",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fidejussor":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one under Roman and civil law who enters into or authorizes a fidejussion , a guarantor, or surety":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin, from fidejussus + Latin -or":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8j\u0259s\u0259(r)"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131527",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fidelity":{
"antonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"definitions":{
": accuracy in details : exactness":[
"The movie's director insisted on total fidelity to the book."
],
": the degree to which an electronic device (such as a record player, radio, or television) accurately reproduces its effect (such as sound or picture)":[],
": the quality or state of being faithful":[
"his fidelity to his wife"
]
},
"examples":[
"Yet as Reardon emphasizes early on, fidelity to facts was never the point. The same dinner with friends could appear over and over in Fisher's published work, rejiggered each time to make a different point. \u2014 Laura Shapiro , New York Times Book Review , 12 Dec. 2004",
"It is a world familiar to all children, and it is this fidelity to child life that gives resonance to Hoffmann's tale and makes it an extraordinary work of art. \u2014 Maurice Sendak , Caldecott & Co. , 1988",
"Chaucer's patient Griselda proved her fidelity to her husband by resisting the prodigious reasons he gave her for being unfaithful. \u2014 B. F. Skinner , Beyond Freedom and Dignity , 1971",
"music with much higher fidelity than on cassettes",
"they have never wavered in their fidelity to the cause of freedom",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All of this is possible thanks to combining the massive data sets from Google Maps, Google Earth, and Street View, but even then, this level of fidelity will be very limited by the initial data sets. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 11 May 2022",
"This no-brainer decision brings about tension and fissures in the friendship, leading Kevin to question his sense of fidelity . \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 7 Apr. 2022",
"If not just as well, then certainly close enough to serve the purpose with no significant loss of fidelity to the message, the delivery or the receipt. \u2014 Jeff Bradford, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
"As an interpreter of Bach, Kirkpatrick\u2019s renown stemmed from dual senses of fidelity : the crisp, prickly, precise sonics of his playing, but also his devout attention to and reverence for the music itself. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Jan. 2022",
"But rural and high-poverty schools may need more time, support and coaching to implement programs with fidelity , experts say. \u2014 Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al , 20 May 2022",
"This distrust is understandable, to a degree: Fantasy can be engineered with as much fidelity as reality; the dissemination of misinformation is ineradicable. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Again, managing this problem produced gates with a fidelity of 99.5 percent, well above the threshold needed for error correction. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Mounted on a tower, the x-band sensor would provide high- fidelity tracking of all air traffic, as well as electronic identification to distinguish between incoming missiles and routine objects such as civilian planes. \u2014 Jason Sherman, Scientific American , 2 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English fidelite , borrowed from Middle French fidelit\u00e9, borrowed from Latin fid\u0113lit\u0101t-, fid\u0113lit\u0101s, from fid\u0113lis \"faithful, loyal, trustworthy\" (from fid\u0113- , stem of fid\u0113s \"trust, belief, faith\" + -lis, denominal suffix of appurtenance) + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"f\u0259-\u02c8de-l\u0259-t\u0113",
"f\u012b-",
"f\u0259-\u02c8de-l\u0259-t\u0113, f\u012b-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for fidelity fidelity , allegiance , fealty , loyalty , devotion , piety mean faithfulness to something to which one is bound by pledge or duty. fidelity implies strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. marital fidelity allegiance suggests an adherence like that of citizens to their country. pledging allegiance fealty implies a fidelity acknowledged by the individual and as compelling as a sworn vow. fealty to the truth loyalty implies a faithfulness that is steadfast in the face of any temptation to renounce, desert, or betray. valued the loyalty of his friends devotion stresses zeal and service amounting to self-dedication. a painter's devotion to her art piety stresses fidelity to obligations regarded as natural and fundamental. filial piety",
"synonyms":[
"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fastness",
"fealty",
"loyalty",
"piety",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075053",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fidepromission":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": contract of guaranty or suretyship under Roman law by stipulation":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin fidepromission-, fidepromissio , from fidepromissus (past participle of fidepromittere to give surety, from Latin fide \u2014ablative of fides faith, trust\u2014+ promittere to promise) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccf\u012bd\u0113pr\u014d\u02c8mish\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172630",
"type":[
"noun",
"noun,"
]
},
"fides facta":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a ceremony in Teutonic law required for the making of a binding contract except in cases of bailment and consisting of making faith with a gage and pledge":[]
"probably alteration of English dialect fitch , from Middle English fichen":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8fij"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112645",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fidget":{
"antonyms":[
"fiddle",
"jerk",
"jig",
"jiggle",
"squiggle",
"squirm",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"toss",
"twist",
"twitch",
"wiggle",
"wriggle",
"writhe"
],
"definitions":{
": one that fidgets":[],
": to cause to move or act nervously":[],
": to move or act restlessly or nervously":[],
": uneasiness or restlessness as shown by nervous movements":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He was constantly fidgeting in his chair.",
"small children are likely to fidget in church",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That\u2019s when the idea came to him to create clothing with fidget toys attached, so they wouldn\u2019t get lost. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Before the fidget spinner, there was the Tech Deck \u2014 the miniature skateboard everyone played with in middle school during the aughts. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 24 May 2022",
"Refresh for the summer with this pencil case, which combines storage with the hot fidget toy of the moment. \u2014 Selina Tedesco, Good Housekeeping , 5 May 2022",
"The next step is creating a space stocked with fidget toys, Nerf balls, a weighted blanket or a rocking chair. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"This notebook also functions as a fidget toy, with those irresistible popping bubbles on the cover. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"And can a fidget spinner be classified as a wheel",
"The company\u2019s popular fidget toy is a magnetic puzzle cube that can be transformed into 70 unique shapes. \u2014 Anna Tingley, Variety , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Hand2mind, which specializes in classroom toys, doubled down on social and emotional learning in early 2020, Winick said, and the year\u2019s most popular product turned out to be a set of four sensory fidget tubes that sell for $35. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In a brainstorm, toys\u2014such as a magnetic gyro wheel, fidget toys or expandable spheres\u2014can bring out the best thinking. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The need to fidget in class and outside of class likely got a bump during the pandemic, said David Anderson, clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, a non-profit seeking to transform child and adolescent mental health. \u2014 Elissa Strauss, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
"There have been a number of studies that find that fidgets or fidgeting help children focus, while other research suggests that fidget toys can lead to poorer educational outcomes. \u2014 Elissa Strauss, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
"As for the past two hundred years of intervention, the Office of No will have its hands full revisiting everything from central banking and leaving cryptocurrency alone, to antitrust regulation, to fidget spinners. \u2014 Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Stay grounded, don\u2019t squirm, fidget or look at your phone. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"His hands, police said, started to fidget and shake. \u2014 Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star , 8 June 2021",
"Objects people fidget with include paper clips, USB thumb drives, earbuds and sticky tape. \u2014 Katherine Isbister, The Conversation , 7 May 2021",
"Splatter has more than 30 arms, perfect for the person who loves to twist and fidget . \u2014 Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune , 15 May 2021"
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"At DreamMore, the staff scrambled to distract the adults with no backup plans and the fidgety children whose parents had packed swim trunks but not snowsuits. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The man was very fidgety and could not stop moving around. \u2014 cleveland , 1 May 2022",
"But kids with Down syndrome also have sensory issues or feel fidgety , and many are unable to wear the mask for those or other reasons. \u2014 Theresa Gaffney, STAT , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The temptation is to toss one's fidgety hands in the air and mutter that these debts belong not to us individual Americans but to a faceless federal government. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Editorial Board July 20, Star Tribune , 20 July 2021",
"Certainly not young folks, which explains why a paltry 7 percent of fidgety youth bother tuning in at all, putting it in line with rodeo viewership. \u2014 Ari David Blaff, National Review , 11 July 2021",
"With his shoulder over a barrier, Leung stood on a stool and held an umbrella with one hand as his fidgety pianist fingers tapped on the barrier. \u2014 CNN , 17 June 2021",
"The Puma cruises happily at rapid highway speeds, but the combination of road noise and a fidgety ride makes longer journeys wearing. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 12 May 2021",
"On one recent day, at a Ju\u00e1rez migrant shelter, two Honduran women fed their fidgety toddlers. \u2014 Dallas News , 16 Apr. 2021"
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"That\u2019s when the idea came to him to create clothing with fidget toys attached, so they wouldn\u2019t get lost. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Before the fidget spinner, there was the Tech Deck \u2014 the miniature skateboard everyone played with in middle school during the aughts. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 24 May 2022",
"Refresh for the summer with this pencil case, which combines storage with the hot fidget toy of the moment. \u2014 Selina Tedesco, Good Housekeeping , 5 May 2022",
"The next step is creating a space stocked with fidget toys, Nerf balls, a weighted blanket or a rocking chair. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"This notebook also functions as a fidget toy, with those irresistible popping bubbles on the cover. \u2014 Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"And can a fidget spinner be classified as a wheel",
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"Hand2mind, which specializes in classroom toys, doubled down on social and emotional learning in early 2020, Winick said, and the year\u2019s most popular product turned out to be a set of four sensory fidget tubes that sell for $35. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In a brainstorm, toys\u2014such as a magnetic gyro wheel, fidget toys or expandable spheres\u2014can bring out the best thinking. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The need to fidget in class and outside of class likely got a bump during the pandemic, said David Anderson, clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, a non-profit seeking to transform child and adolescent mental health. \u2014 Elissa Strauss, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
"There have been a number of studies that find that fidgets or fidgeting help children focus, while other research suggests that fidget toys can lead to poorer educational outcomes. \u2014 Elissa Strauss, CNN , 29 Dec. 2021",
"As for the past two hundred years of intervention, the Office of No will have its hands full revisiting everything from central banking and leaving cryptocurrency alone, to antitrust regulation, to fidget spinners. \u2014 Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Stay grounded, don\u2019t squirm, fidget or look at your phone. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
"His hands, police said, started to fidget and shake. \u2014 Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star , 8 June 2021",
"Objects people fidget with include paper clips, USB thumb drives, earbuds and sticky tape. \u2014 Katherine Isbister, The Conversation , 7 May 2021",
"Splatter has more than 30 arms, perfect for the person who loves to twist and fidget . \u2014 Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune , 15 May 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At DreamMore, the staff scrambled to distract the adults with no backup plans and the fidgety children whose parents had packed swim trunks but not snowsuits. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The man was very fidgety and could not stop moving around. \u2014 cleveland , 1 May 2022",
"But kids with Down syndrome also have sensory issues or feel fidgety , and many are unable to wear the mask for those or other reasons. \u2014 Theresa Gaffney, STAT , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The temptation is to toss one's fidgety hands in the air and mutter that these debts belong not to us individual Americans but to a faceless federal government. \u2014 Chicago Tribune Editorial Board July 20, Star Tribune , 20 July 2021",
"Certainly not young folks, which explains why a paltry 7 percent of fidgety youth bother tuning in at all, putting it in line with rodeo viewership. \u2014 Ari David Blaff, National Review , 11 July 2021",
"With his shoulder over a barrier, Leung stood on a stool and held an umbrella with one hand as his fidgety pianist fingers tapped on the barrier. \u2014 CNN , 17 June 2021",
"The Puma cruises happily at rapid highway speeds, but the combination of road noise and a fidgety ride makes longer journeys wearing. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 12 May 2021",
"On one recent day, at a Ju\u00e1rez migrant shelter, two Honduran women fed their fidgety toddlers. \u2014 Dallas News , 16 Apr. 2021"
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"Whether the scope of the investigation will finally seek answers to longstanding trustee questions regarding potential conflicts of interest, fiduciary breaches and violations of law regarding its investments, the pension won\u2019t say. \u2014 Edward Siedle, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"But Costco now faces a lawsuit from two shareholders claiming that the company and its top executives violated animal welfare laws and, in the process, broke their fiduciary duties. \u2014 Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Twitter\u2019s board may have once viewed selling the company to Musk for $54.20 a share as a sensible fulfillment of its fiduciary duty to investors\u2013particularly since the stock market has plunged since the deal was approved. \u2014 Abram Brown, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Consistent with its fiduciary duties, the board will carefully review any proposal submitted by Trian Partners. \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 26 May 2022",
"The lawsuit seeks to delay the merger's closing until at least 2025, declare that Twitter directors breached their fiduciary duties, and recoup legal fees and costs. \u2014 Reuters, CNN , 6 May 2022",
"Senator Rubio announced a bill that would allow shareholders to sue corporations if their business strategies diverge from their fiduciary duty to maximize returns for investors. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"If your financial advisor is not a fiduciary , they are not legally obligated to put your best interest first. \u2014 David Rae, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"This advisor should be a fiduciary , meaning the advisor is required to put your best interests first. \u2014 Liz Weston, oregonlive , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The Petitioner is qualified under the old probate code and a fiduciary under the present code and therefore an interested person. \u2014 Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online , 20 May 2022",
"The duty of confidentiality requires a fiduciary to keep confidential any information which the disclosure of may be harmful or embarrassing to a beneficiary, even if that information has been disclosed by the beneficiary elsewhere. \u2014 Matthew Erskine, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Nussbaum suggests that the government could designate a suitable animal-welfare agency to act as a fiduciary for specific animals, which would allow them to be represented in court. \u2014 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
"But now, Native leaders say that their younger shareholders place higher value on their culture and see the corporations as a potential source of Indigenous identity and belonging, with responsibilities that extend beyond the fiduciary . \u2014 Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Curtis also can no longer serve as a trustee or act as a fiduciary . \u2014 Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The filing requests that Jason Rubin, a licensed professional fiduciary , be appointed as the new conservator of Britney Spears' estate. \u2014 Victoria Albert, CBS News , 27 July 2021",
"The goal of a fiduciary is to act in the best interest of their client. \u2014 Andrew Rosen, Forbes , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Most recently, before he was removed on Sept. 29, Spears served only in the second role, while Jodi Montgomery, a licensed personal fiduciary and care professional, is Britney Spears\u2019 conservator of the person. \u2014 Naomi Cahn, The Conversation , 30 Sep. 2021"
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"But Facebook is claiming that its system will work more smoothly and consistently than other AR platforms, and that will be simple for people to turn their posters or images into fiducial markers. \u2014 Adi Robertson, The Verge , 5 Apr. 2018",
"A small camera on the headset was reading the fiducial markers on the (real) wall and using that spatial information to track his position among the (virtual) cubes. \u2014 Peter Rubin, WIRED , 20 May 2014"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Smaller groups will eat well with a lofty breakfast sandwich with house sausage, egg and cheese or elegant egg dishes paired with fiddlehead ferns and other seasonal delights, as well as excellent pour-over coffees made to order. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2022",
"The yard is carpeted with wild strawberries and fiddlehead ferns, its perimeter ringed with elderberry bushes. \u2014 Ashlea Halpern, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 Sep. 2021",
"Simeon ran his fingers along tall reedy stalks, feeling for the familiar curled tendrils of pohole ( fiddlehead ferns). \u2014 Elyse Inamine, Bon App\u00e9tit , 19 July 2021",
"New asparagus, potatoes, baby artichokes and oddities like fiddlehead ferns or garlic scapes beg to be gently cooked, then drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with salt, doing the bare minimum to highlight their flavor. \u2014 Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2021",
"And now, mid-pandemic, a dinner plate of snails garnished with fiddlehead ferns \u2014 a dish Pyles\u2019 team once served at an exclusive tasting room named Fauna \u2014 seems like a joke. \u2014 Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News , 22 July 2020",
"Watch and listen for wildlife as the garden\u2019s weeping Higan cherry trees sway in the wind along the pond, and follow the path of camellias, artfully pruned pine trees and fiddlehead ferns. \u2014 Maya Salam, New York Times , 13 Apr. 2020",
"Black / Brown Chocolate cosmos, pincushion plant, amaranth, fiddleheads , and agonis are all incredible together\u2014a bit moody, yes, but not too somber. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Its chef, Shiruhisa-san, is known for his ornate kushikatsu twists, like prawns twined around fiddleheads , butterbur wrapped delicately in tofu, and shiso leaves with flaky whitefish. \u2014 Adam H. Graham, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 16 Nov. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1882, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-002841"
},
"fidibus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a paper spill for lighting pipes":[]
},
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"\u02c8fid\u0259b\u0259s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"German (originally student slang), from Latin dative plural of fides lyre (a jocular allusion to a line of Horace); akin to Greek sphides sausage":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-011240"
},
"Fiddler's Green":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a heaven reserved for sailors or soldiers, especially cavalrymen":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-033615"
},
"fiddley hatch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a hatch around the smokestack and uptake on the weather deck of a ship for ventilation of the boiler room":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-060843"
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"fiddler":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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": violin":[],
": a device (such as a slat, rack, or light railing) to keep objects from sliding off a table aboard ship":[],
": fiddlesticks":[
"\u2014 used as an interjection"
],
": swindle":[],
": to play on a fiddle":[],
": to move the hands or fingers restlessly":[],
": to spend time in aimless or fruitless activity : putter , tinker":[
"fiddled around with the engine for hours"
],
": meddle , tamper":[],
": to make minor manual movements especially to adjust something":[
"fiddled with the radio knobs"
],
": to play (something) on a fiddle":[
"fiddle a tune"
],
": cheat , swindle":[],
": to alter or manipulate deceptively for fraudulent gain":[
"accountants fiddling the books",
"\u2014 Stanley Cohen"
]
},
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"\u02c8fi-d\u1d4al"
],
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"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
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"fidget",
"jerk",
"jig",
"jiggle",
"squiggle",
"squirm",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"toss",
"twist",
"twitch",
"wiggle",
"wriggle",
"writhe"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"Noun",
"an expert with the fiddle",
"arrested for a tax fiddle",
"Verb",
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned.",
"the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The recluse spiders, commonly known as fiddle -back or violin spiders, belong to a variety of spiders in the genus Loxosceles. \u2014 al , 28 June 2022",
"The sound, fiddle -driven, is positively jaunty, considering the circumstances, a blues tradition. \u2014 Barry Mazor, WSJ , 29 Mar. 2022",
"In a 1952 contest in West Texas, Jim won the fiddle division while his father triumphed in the guitar category. \u2014 News Services And Staff Reports, Washington Post , 8 June 2022",
"Commenced with a fiddle introduction that evoked the long, slow moan of a steam-train whistle, the Zeppelin staple shook with Malian-leaning rhythms. \u2014 Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Born in Sidney, Texas to oilman and musician Wayland Seals, the rocker was a fiddle champion in his youth, and later took up the saxophone. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
"In a 1952 contest in west Texas, Jim won the fiddle division while his father triumphed in the guitar category. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 7 June 2022",
"There are elegies and aubades, fiddle tunes and field recordings. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Classical piano virtuoso by Lisa Weiss, klezmer and jazz woodwind by Seth Kibel, mandolin by Joel-Michael-Schwartz, and hammered dulcimer player and old-time fiddle by Ken Kolodner. \u2014 John Coffren, Baltimore Sun , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"His hands fiddle with the bottom of his shirt, exposing a soft belly. \u2014 Leah Asmelash, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, the Internet burns while partisans fiddle . \u2014 Jill Goldenziel, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"After work, Hern\u00e1n \u2014 who saw three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan during his 15 years of service \u2014 and his Marine buddies would deconstruct and fiddle with machines in his garage. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"The other three here, from Rolex, Tag Heuer and Omega, also stress utility with their prominent crowns and dials that would benefit a wearer too focused on the task at hand to fiddle with their watch. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Researchers need to fiddle with the amounts or efficiency of the various enzymes engineered into the microbes to optimize the production of carminic acid and reduce the amounts of undesired byproducts. \u2014 Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"To get his ship moving, Toe will have to fiddle with all sorts of machinery in and out of water, as well as make upgrades and repairs to the ship. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022",
"His hands fiddle with the cap of a large Acqua Panna water bottle, ripping out the lid\u2019s plastic innards. \u2014 Lauren Larson, Men's Health , 21 Mar. 2022",
"This means there'll be no need to fiddle with cards or apps to unlock the charger. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English fithele, fethill, fydel, going back to Old English *fithele (assumed from the derivative fithelere \"fiddler\"), going back to Germanic *fi\u00fel\u014d- (whence Middle Dutch vedele \"stringed instrument,\" Old High German fidula, fidala, Old Norse fi\u00f0la ), perhaps of onomatopoeic origin":"Noun",
"Middle English fithelyn, fydelin, derivative of fithele, fydel fiddle entry 1":"Verb"
},
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-003650"
},
"fida\u02bdi":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of an Ismaili order of assassins known for their willingness to offer up their lives in order to carry out delegated assignments of murdering appointed victims":[]
