field game
- n an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions
field-emission microscope
- n electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
fiddle
- n bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
- v avoid (one's assigned duties)
- v commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- v play the violin or fiddle
- v play on a violin
Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely - v manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
Don't fiddle with the screws - v play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
The reporter fiddle with the facts - v try to fix or mend
She always fiddles with her van on the weekend
field-effect transistor
- n a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
fiddlehead
- n tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- n New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
fiddlehead fern
- n New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
fiddleneck
- n hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers
fiddler
- n a musician who plays the violin
- n someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
- n an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend