far

aggettivo

1. 1

   Distant; remote in space.

   He went to a far land.

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   Remote in time.

   the far far future

3. 3

   Long.

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

4. 4

   More remote of two.

   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.

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

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

5. 5

   Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

   They are on the far right on this issue.

   He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.

6. 6

   Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.

   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.

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

   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.

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

7. 7

   Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

   far heap; far memory; far pointer

avverbio

1. 1

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

   You have all come far and you will go further.

   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.

2. 2

   Very much; by a great amount.

   He was far richer than we'd thought.

   The expense far exceeds what I expected.

   I saw a tiny figure far below me.

   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.

verbo

1. 1

   raroTo send far away.

   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.

   […] 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.

sostantivo

1. 1

   Emmer (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, ...

   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.'

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

sostantivo

1. 1

   A litter of piglets; a farrow.

Forme

plurale

fars

comparativo

farther, further

superlativo

farthest, furthest, farthermost, furthermost

passato

farred

participio passato

farred

participio presente

farring

3ª persona singolare

fars