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单词 fair
释义

fair

See also: Fair, fáir, and fair-

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɛə/, /fɛː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /fɛəɹ/
  • (file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /feː(ə)/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /fɪə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: fare

Etymology 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.

Adjective

fair (comparative fairer, superlative fairest)

  1. (archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
    Synonyms: beautiful, pretty, lovely
    Monday's child is fair of face.
    There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.
    • 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
      He is so fair, without lease, he seems full well to sit on this.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 6:2, column 1:
      That the ſonnes of God ſaw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they took them wiues, of all which they choſe.
    • 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886; republished as “Champion and Chief”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917, OCLC 419578288, page 96:
      "It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.
    • 2010, Stephan Grundy, Beowulf (Fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:
      And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.
  2. Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
    Synonyms: pure, clean, neat
    one's fair name
    After scratching out and replacing various words in the manuscript, he scribed a fair copy to send to the publisher.
    • 1605, The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, London: Robert Barker, “The order for the administration of the Lords Supper, or holy Communion,”
      The Table hauing at the Communion time a faire white linnen cloth vpon it, shall stand in the body of the Church, or in the Chancell, where Morning prayer and Euening prayer be appointed to be said.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, London, Observation 21, “Of Moss, and several other small vegetative Substances,” p. 135,
      [] I have observ’d, that putting fair Water (whether Rain-water or Pump-water, or May-dew, or Snow-water, it was almost all one) I have often observ’d, I say, that this Water would, with a little standing, tarnish and cover all about the sides of the Glass that lay under water, with a lovely green []
  3. Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
    Synonym: pale
    She had fair hair and blue eyes.
    • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, page 200
      the northern people large and fair-complexioned
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
      This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
  4. Just, equitable.
    Synonyms: honest, just, equitable
    He must be given a fair trial.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
      “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  5. Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
    Synonyms: OK, okay
    Their performance has been only fair.
    The patient was in a fair condition after some treatment.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
      The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.
  6. (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.
    • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 563”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [], volume (please specify the volume), Shammar edition, [London]: [] Burton Club [], OCLC 939632161:
      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. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
    a fair sky;  a fair day
    • 1909, Frank R. Stockton, The adventures of Captain Horn Chapter 42
      They had good weather and tolerably fair winds, and before they entered the Straits of Magellan the captain had formulated a plan for the disposition of Garta.
  8. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
    a fair mark;  in fair sight;  a fair view
    • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War:
      The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.
  9. (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
  10. (baseball) Between the baselines.
  11. (rugby, of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
  12. (cricket, of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no ball.
  13. (statistics) Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
Derived terms
  • a fair bit
  • all's fair in love and war
  • by fair means or foul
  • culture-fair
  • faint heart never won fair lady
  • fair and square
  • fair ball
  • fair bet
  • fair-built
  • fair cake-cutting
  • fair catch
  • fair cop
  • fair copy
  • fair crack of the whip
  • fair dealing
  • fair dinks
  • fair dinkum
  • fair division
  • fair doos
  • fair do's
  • fair dos
  • fair enough
  • fair exchange is no robbery
  • fair game
  • fair go
  • fair-haired
  • fairhanded
  • Fairhaven
  • fairhood
  • fair is fair
  • fair leather
  • fair linen
  • fair list
  • fair-mannered
  • fair market value
  • fair-minded
  • fairness
  • fair play
  • fair sex
  • fair's fair
  • fair shake
  • fair shake of the sauce bottle
  • fair-sized
  • fair-skinned
  • fair suck of the sauce bottle
  • fair suck of the sav
  • fair to meddling
  • fair-to-middlin'
  • fair to middlin'
  • fair to middling
  • fair-to-middling
  • fair trade
  • fair trial
  • fair use
  • fair value
  • fair warning
  • fair-weather
  • fair weather fan
  • fair-weather friend
  • fair weather friend
  • fair-weather friendship
  • fair wind
  • fair-world
  • fancy fair
  • make fair weather
  • no fair
  • play fair
  • set fair
  • set-fair
  • snout-fair
  • to be fair
  • turnabout is fair play
  • turn about is fair play
  • you can't say fairer than that
Translations

Noun

fair (plural fair)

  1. Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
    When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
  2. (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
    • 1744, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hercules, act 2, scene 8
      Love and Hymen, hand in hand,
      Come, restore the nuptial band!
      And sincere delights prepare
      To crown the hero and the fair.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, [], OCLC 928184292:
      Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”
    • 1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: [] Thomas Davison, [], OCLC 489750426, canto III, stanza 24:
      If single, probably his plighted Fair
      Has in his absence wedded some rich miser  [].
  3. (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
    • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
      My decayed fair
  4. A fair woman; a sweetheart.
    • 1743, William Shenstone, A Pastoral Ballad
      I have found out a gift for my fair.
  5. (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
    • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
      Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!

Verb

fair (third-person singular simple present fairs, present participle fairing, simple past and past participle faired)

  1. (transitive) To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
  2. (transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
  3. (transitive, art) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
    • 1996, Computer Animation '96: June 3-4, 1996, Geneva, Switzerland (page 136)
      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. (transitive) To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
    • 1920, Technical Report of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page 206)
      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. (transitive, obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 123”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. [], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
      Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face
Synonyms
  • (to reduce air drag or water resistance): to streamline
Derived terms
  • fair off
  • fair up
  • fairing
Translations

Adverb

fair (comparative more fair or fairer, superlative most fair or fairest)

  1. clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably
Derived terms
  • bid fair
  • fair and square

Etymology 2

From Middle English feyre, from Old French foire, from Latin fēriae.

Noun

fair (plural fairs)

  1. A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
  2. An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      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.
  3. An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
  4. A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
Derived terms
  • a day after the fair
  • book fair
  • boot fair
  • career fair, careers fair
  • county fair
  • fairgoer
  • fairground
  • frost fair
  • funfair
  • geography fair
  • horse fair
  • job fair
  • Ren fair, Renaissance fair
  • science fair
Translations
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References

  • fair at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • fair in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • fair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

  • RIFA, fiar, rifa-

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛːr/
  • Hyphenation: fair

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fair, from Middle English fayr, from Old English fæġer, from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz.

Adjective

fair (comparative fairer, superlative fairst)

  1. (colloquial, affected) fair (just, honest, equitable, adequate).
Inflection
Inflection of fair
uninflectedfair
inflectedfaire
comparativefairder
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialfairfairderhet fairst
het fairste
indefinitem./f. sing.fairefairderefairste
n. sing.fairfairderfairste
pluralfairefairderefairste
definitefairefairderefairste
partitivefairsfairders

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English fair, from Middle English feyre, from Old French foire, from Latin fēriae.

Noun

fair m (plural fairs)

  1. A fair (social event, type of market).
    Synonyms: braderie, jaarmarkt
  2. (rare) A funfair, carnival.
    Synonyms: foor, kermis
  • foor

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English fair, from Old English fæġer, from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, whence also Middle High German vager (splendid, wonderful).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛːr/, [fɛːɐ̯], [feːɐ̯], [fɛɐ̯]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: fair

Adjective

fair (strong nominative masculine singular fairer, comparative fairer, superlative am fairsten)

  1. (especially sports) fair (just, honest, equitable, adequate)
    Synonyms: anständig, ehrlich, gerecht, gleich, ausgeglichen, angemessen, sauber
    Antonym: unfair
    ein faires Spielan honest game, a fairly played game
    Unsere einzige Möglichkeit, fair zu sein, besteht darin, alle gleich schlecht zu behandeln.
    The only way we can be fair is by treating everybody equally badly.

Declension

Derived terms

  • Fairness (rarely Fairheit)
  • Fairplay
  • Fair-Use-Doktrin

Further reading

  • fair” in Duden online
  • fair” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French to do.

Verb

fair

  1. (Saint-Domingue) to do
    Ly doi fair nion l'autre quichoy avant cila là.He should do another thing before that one.

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole:

References

  • S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

Hungarian

Etymology

From English fair.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛr], [ˈfɛːr]
  • Hyphenation: fair
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Adjective

fair (comparative fairebb, superlative legfairebb)

  1. fair (just, equitable)
    Synonyms: méltányos, tisztességes, becsületes, igazságos, korrekt, sportszerű

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singularplural
nominativefairfairek
accusativefairtfaireket
dativefairnekfaireknek
instrumentalfairrelfairekkel
causal-finalfairértfairekért
translativefairréfairekké
terminativefairigfairekig
essive-formalfairkéntfairekként
essive-modalfairül
inessivefairbenfairekben
superessivefairenfaireken
adessivefairnélfaireknél
illativefairbefairekbe
sublativefairrefairekre
allativefairhezfairekhez
elativefairbőlfairekből
delativefairrőlfairekről
ablativefairtőlfairektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
fairéfaireké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
fairéifairekéi

Derived terms

  • fair play
  • fairül

Further reading

  • fair in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish

Etymology

See aire (watching, attention)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fˠaɾʲ]

Verb

fair (present analytic faireann, future analytic fairfidh, verbal noun faire, past participle fairthe)

  1. to watch

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
fairfhairbhfair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • foir

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [farʲ]

Pronoun

fair

  1. third-person singular masculine/neuter accusative of for

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fair.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛr/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛr
  • Syllabification: fair

Adjective

fair (not comparable)

  1. fair (just, equitable)
    Synonym: uczciwy

Declension

Indeclinable.

Adverb

fair (not comparable)

  1. fairly (in a fair manner)
    Synonym: uczciwie
noun
  • fair play

Further reading

  • fair in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fair in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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