(a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
(a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
(a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
(a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
(a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
(adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
(adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
(adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
(adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(3) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(6) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(7) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(10) Little is so far known of the origin of this syndrome.
(11) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(12) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(13) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(14) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(15) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(16) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(17) We demonstrated that while the protein was incorporated into the cell layer at 6, 24, 48, and 72 hr, a far greater amount was secreted into the media.
(18) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(19) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.
Overfly
Definition:
(v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Airlines were asked not to overfly Crimea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov due to the potential for conflicting air traffic control instructions between Ukrainian and Russian authorities.
(2) British Airways said it was not overflying Ukraine.
(3) Decides that all States shall deny permission to any aircraft to take off from, land in or overfly their territory, if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the aircraft contains items the supply, sale, transfer, or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, except in the case of an emergency landing; Asset freeze 19.
(4) Probable source areas of insects overflying the radar were identified by calculations of the insects' back-trajectories.
(5) A notice posted by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on 14 June urged carriers to avoid overflying Crimea and parts of southern Ukraine a month ago due to safety concerns, but they were not ordered to avoid the rest of the country.
(6) It also emerged that as recently as a month ago British airlines were given the all-clear to overfly the area where flight MH17 was downed, after being told that operations were "normal" in the region.
(7) Nato announced on Monday night it will deploy AWACS reconnaissance aircraft to overfly Poland and Romania as part of alliance efforts to monitor the crisis.
(8) Britain, it had been judged, was safe for overflying at more than 20,000 feet, above the cloud of volcanic ash, but not for takeoffs and landings.
(9) Equipped with surveillance systems that eavesdrop on the lowly world it overflies, allegedly able to fire missiles and to withstand a nuclear blast, Air Force One is evidence of dominance.
(10) Decides that all States shall deny permission to any aircraft registered in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or owned or operated by Libyan nationals or companies to take off from, land in or overfly their territory unless the particular flight has been approved in advance by the Committee, or in the case of an emergency landing; 18.
(11) Britain's biggest airport would still, indeed, like a third runway – and for good measure it now has identified several different neighbourhoods it could flatten or overfly .
(12) This could involve allowing US war planes to launch missions from Britain or allowing US aircraft to overfly the UK.