(superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
(superl.) Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.
(superl.) Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.
(superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.
(superl.) Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.
(superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
(superl.) Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.
(superl.) Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
(v. t.) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.
(n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.
(n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.
(n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(3) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
(4) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(5) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(6) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
(7) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
(8) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(9) Caries also developed in rats inoculated with reference S. mutans strains BHTR and FAIR (type b) that had been maintained in the laboratories for many years.
(10) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
(11) "We knew people would be interested in the announcement, but it's fair to say that the scale of the excitement, right across the world, took us all by surprise.
(12) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(13) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(14) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(15) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(16) He always had a logical approach to his arguments and I would have described him as fair at the time.
(17) Progressive politics must also take into account fairness between, as well as within, generations.
(18) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(20) It was found by this HPLC that the amino groups of PZP3 hardly reacted with FITC, whereas those of PZP1 and 2 fairly reacted, reflecting the organization of these families in the zona structure.
Fare
Definition:
(n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
(n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
(n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
(n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
(n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
(v.) A journey; a passage.
(v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
(v.) Ado; bustle; business.
(v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
(v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
(v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
(v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The female survival figures were better than the male, and older patients fared far worse then younger ones.
(3) One problem is that it seems fares are going up several times a year.
(4) Yet it appears that younger patients fared better than older ones.
(5) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
(6) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
(7) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(8) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
(9) Those patients who were treated seemed to fare better than those not treated.
(10) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(11) Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, said: "These fare increases were being sought by a company that was in a very different financial position.
(12) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
(13) A survey of radiologic technologists in North Carolina shows that, in general, technologists fare better economically when working in hospitals than in radiologists' offices.
(14) The patients on active drug fared no better than those on placebo.
(15) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
(16) For those making an early getaway, air fares were up by 7% and boat journeys went up 5.2%.
(17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
(18) In Spain the government is taking the drastic step of cutting speed limits on motorways and cutting train fares , as the unrest in Libya threatens the country's oil supplies.
(19) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(20) He says he missed the appointment because he did not have enough money for the bus fare.