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fábrica
factory (language=Español)

 

familia Miranda
noisy onlookers (language=Castellano Chileno)

 

fei yang
flying high (language=Zhongwen); name used by Coca-Cola for its brand of soft drinks in Taiwan; the brand includes indigenous teas and fruit-juice drinks designed to appeal to young people

 

felo-de-se
one who deliberately kills himself or who dies from the effects of his commission of an unlawful malicious act (language=Middle Latin: felo de se, fello de se, literally, evildoer in respect to oneself; 1607) [Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; see cue/www=Merriam-Webster OnLine]

 

fiducia
confidence; trust (language=Italiano); on Yeibichai, an authentication, acting like a password, that combines with an Em-Deh identifier to permit automated access to something; the fiducia consists of some combination of voice and words, other sounds, visual image, or smell.

 

First Nations
what Canadians call Native Americans, which is more appropriate since nobody is native to North and Sud América (language=Canadian)

 

floor-token
virtual indicator of permission to speak in a will-hear discussion group; specific algorithm, whether round-robin, priority, or moderated, is a property of the group (language=Yeibichai/technical jargon)

 

foilscreen
display screen for infraware, whether stationary or llevar, comprised of soft, flat material capable of high resolution and full color that may be manipulated easily (language=Yeibichai/tek); see also holoscreen and curvescreen

 

folkeeventyr
folktakes (language=Norske)

 

foofoo
an extremely thick porridge made from ground cassava, corn, rice, and/or yams; a staple of West African cuisines (language=Waswahili) [Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts by way of The Denver Post]

 

forum
formal discussion group in a meeting/will-be-heard; see meetings, moderated forum, pulse poll, round-robin, sense poll (language=Yeibichai/Em-Deh)

 

Four-Fiver
an age in life, very equivalent to teenage; see also telling time (language=Yeibichai/slang)

 

from-region
Yeibichai way of acknowledging a person's ancestry on , where region is the name of the region on as the people there call it; for example, from-Zhongguo means from-China and from-USA means from-United States of America because from-America would be presumptive and rude to other peoples of America; may also indicate a culture where the region is dominated by another culture, for example, from-Euskara (aka Basque) instead of from-España (language=Yeibichai)

 

full-seconds
round-the-clock, all the time (language=Yeibichai/slang)

 

futsal
also called "five-a-side" soccer, or indoor soccer, futsal is designed to be played on a five-a-side basketball court, with a non-bouncing ball (language=Português). It demonstrates such skills as stop and go, ball control, dribbling, shooting power and strategy. This game originated in South America, where Brasil alone has five million players. At the 1997 North American Indigenous Games, the Cowichan Tribes extended invitations to Australia, Fiji, Hawaii, Brasil and Mexico. See also cue/www=http://www.futsalplanet.com/
 

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