Foe

  • 31foe — /foh/, n. 1. a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe. 2. a military enemy; hostile army. 3. a person belonging to a hostile army or nation. 4. an opponent in a game or contest; adversary: a political foe.… …

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  • 32Foe — El Foe es una unidad de energía igual a 1044 julios. Para medir las inmensas cantidades de energía que produce una supernova, los científicos usaban ocasionalmente una unidad de energía llamada foe que era un acrónimo de Fifty One Ergs o 1051… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 33Foé — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Marc Vivien Foé, un footballeur camerounais. Daniel Foe, nom de naissance de l écrivain anglais Daniel Defoe. Voir aussi Foë, vocabulaire du bouddhisme.… …

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  • 34foe — [[t]foʊ[/t]] n. 1) a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe[/ex] 2) a military enemy 3) an opponent in a game or contest; adversary: a political foe[/ex] 4) a person who is opposed in feeling, principle,… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 35foe —    an informal unit of energy used by astrophysicists to express the energy released by supernovas. One foe equals 1051 ergs or 1044 joules. This is comparable to the amount of energy released by a normal star over its entire lifetime, but in a… …

    Dictionary of units of measurement

  • 36foe — UK [fəʊ] / US [foʊ] noun [countable] Word forms foe : singular foe plural foes literary an enemy …

    English dictionary

  • 37foe — /foʊ / (say foh) noun 1. someone who entertains enmity, hatred, or malice against another; an enemy. 2. an enemy in war; hostile army. 3. someone belonging to a hostile army or nation. 4. an opponent in a game, or contest. 5. a person who is… …

  • 38foe — noun Etymology: Middle English fo, from Old English fāh, from fāh, adjective, hostile; akin to Old High German gifēh hostile Date: before 12th century 1. one who has personal enmity for another 2. a. an enemy in war b. adversary, opponent 3. one… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 39FOE — • Friends Of Earth (GB, http://www.foe.co.uk/) • Flight Operations Engineer NASA • Topeka Forbes AFB, KS, USA internationale Flughafen Kennung …

    Acronyms

  • 40foe — [OE] Foe is the modern descendant of the Old English noun gefā ‘enemy’, a derivative of Germanic *faikh . This also produced the Old English adjective fāh ‘hostile’, and was the ultimate source of modern English feud. => FEUD …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins