far

comparative farther · comparative further · superlative farthest · superlative furthest · superlative farthermost · superlative furthermost

1. Distant; remote in space.

   He went to a far land.

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   And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 9:6

   Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.

   2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 1

   Synonyms: distant

2. Remote in time.

   the far far future

3. Long.

   I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already

   2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42

4. More remote of two.

   See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.

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   At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.

5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

   They are on the far right on this issue.

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   He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.

   2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118

6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.

   Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?

   1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3, page 1737

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   As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.

   1657, Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick., page 26

   The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is a far remove from adaptations that follow.

   2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, page 78

   This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.

   2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124

7. not comparablecomputingOutside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

   far heap; far memory; far pointer

comparative farther · comparative further · superlative farthest · superlative furthest

1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

   You have all come far and you will go further.

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   He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.

   Over time, his views moved far away from mine.

   You've gone far enough. Actually, a bit too far.

   Synonyms: long

2. Very much; by a great amount.

   I saw a tiny figure far below me.

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   He was far richer than we'd thought.

   The expense far exceeds what I expected.

   The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.

   2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport

present singular third person fars · participle present farring · participle past farred · past farred

1. raretransitiveTo send far away.

   […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.

   1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love

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   But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.

   1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis

1. uncountableEmmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.

   A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...

   1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108

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   Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'

   1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia

   Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.

   1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, “Wedding-Cake”, in Brides and Bridals. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, pages 200–201

   The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […]

   1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32

plural fars

1. UKdialectalA litter of piglets; a farrow.

plural FARs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of floor area ratio.

1. abbreviationinitialismproscribedaeronauticsInitialism of Federal Aviation Regulations.
2. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.