fair

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɛə/|[ˈfɛə̯]|[ˈfɛː]|/ˈfɛː/|[ˈfɛː]    美 /ˈfeː/|[ˈfeː]|/ˈfɛɚ/|[ˈfɛɚ] ~ [ˈfɛɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
  2. Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
    — When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
  3. 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 one.
  4. A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women. obsolete
    — Love and Hymen, hand in hand, Come, restore the nuptial band! And sincere delights prepare To crown the hero and the fair.
  5. An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
  6. Fairness, beauty. obsolete
    — My decayed fair
  7. A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
  8. A fair woman; a sweetheart.
    — I have found out a gift for my fair.
  9. Good fortune; good luck. obsolete
    — Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
动词 v.
  1. To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface). transitive
  2. To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members). transitive
  3. To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness. transitive
    — 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. To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance. transitive
    — 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. To make fair or beautiful. obsolete,transitive
    — Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face
  6. To become fair (favorable, not stormy). intransitive
    — [The] weather faired, and toward midday we were again facing the fringe of breakers from the cliffs.
形容词 adj.
  1. Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality. archaic,literary
    — Monday's child is fair of face.
    He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
  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. Favorable, pleasant.; Not overcast; cloudless; clear.
    — a fair sky
  9. Favorable, pleasant.; 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.
副词 adv.
  1. Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.
  2. Almost; to a great extent but not literally. Ireland
    — "I'm fair moidered to know what to do wid him," she confessed to the rosy-cheeked Bridget one day.

词形变化

fairer comparative fairest superlative fair plural fairs present,singular,third-person fairing participle,present faired participle,past faired past more fair comparative fairer comparative most fair superlative fairest superlative fairs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English fayr, feir, fager, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (“suitable, fitting, nice”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).
Cognate with Scots fayr, fare (“fair”), Danish feir, faver, fager (“fair, pretty”), Norwegian fager (“fair, pretty”), Swedish fager (“fair, pretty”), Icelandic fagur (“beautiful, fair”), Umbrian pacer (“gracious, merciful, kind”), Slovak pekný (“good-looking, handsome, nice”). See also peace.
词源 2
From Middle English feyre, from Old French foire, from Latin fēriae.
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