F
a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,504 of 81,628 words measured. It occurs 25,776 times across 191,625 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature also: degree Fahrenheit
- a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite also: fluorine, atomic number 9
- the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates also: farad
- the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet
F in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Miss Constance F. Woolson had not yet begun to write.
Literary Boston as I Knew It · William Dean Howells · Chapter 1
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E was an Esquire, with pride on his brow, F was a Farmer, and followed the plough.
The Nursery Rhyme Book · Andrew [Editor] Lang · Chapter 1
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First consider any of the elliptic sections (C, E, or F) which you see on either side of the circle.
Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them · C. V. (Charles Vernon) Boys · Chapter 1
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I boasted of that firm, unyielding, controversial Calvinist, George F. Magoun, who ruled the college in his own stern way.
Introducing the American Spirit · Edward Alfred Steiner · Chapter 3
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She showed him a letter signed F, in which the history of her grandson’s secret espionage was recounted step by step.
Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants · Honoré de Balzac · Chapter 3