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firth
  • n  English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
  • n  a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
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firth of clyde
  • n  a firth on the southwestern coast of Scotland emptying into the North Channel
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firth of forth
  • n  a large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh
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fisa
  • n  an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance
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fisc
  • n  a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse
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fiscal policy
  • n  a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing)
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fischer
  • n  German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)
  • n  German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919)
  • n  United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
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