Meaning of Fox | Babel Free

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1. A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:
   countable, uncountable
2. A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F.
3. Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
   countable, uncountable
4. A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.
   countable, uncountable
5. Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
6. Acronym of forkhead box protein.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
7. A male given name.
   countable, uncountable
8. The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
   countable, uncountable
9. Ellipsis of Fox Indian (“a member of the Outagamie or Meskwaki, a Native American people”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, dated, ellipsis
10. Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network in the United States.
    US, uncountable
11. Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
    countable, uncountable
12. A placename:
    countable, uncountable
13. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
14. A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.
    countable, uncountable
15. The fur of a fox.
    uncountable
16. A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, a tributary to the Illinois River.
    countable, uncountable
17. A fox terrier.
    countable, uncountable
18. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stone County, Arkansas.
    countable, uncountable
19. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
    countable, uncountable
20. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
21. A cunning person.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
22. An unincorporated community in Estill County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
23. A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
    countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
24. A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
    countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
25. An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
26. A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
    countable, uncountable
27. An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
    countable, uncountable
28. A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
    countable, uncountable
29. An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.
    countable, uncountable
30. A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
    countable, uncountable
31. An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma.
    countable, uncountable
32. The fourteenth Lenormand card.
    countable, uncountable
33. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
    countable, uncountable
34. A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
35. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Fox Township.
    countable, uncountable
36. Air-to-air weapon launched.
    countable, uncountable
37. A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, Australia.
    countable, uncountable
38. Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
    countable, uncountable
39. Ellipsis of Fox Tribe.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
40. Ellipsis of Fox language.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A group of foxes is called a skulk.”

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

“The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.”

“They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.”

“It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.”

“As for thee, false friend, subtle fox, unfaithful servant, this long time am I grown weary of thee slinking up and down my palace devising darkly things I know not: thou, that art nought akin to Witchland, but an outlander, a Goblin exile, a serpent warmed in my bosom to my hurt.”

“And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.”

“It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together.”

“Locating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years.”

“Thou diest on point of fox.”

“Got a lock! Fox, Fox!”

“Austin was patiently and painstakingly concerned with truth within limitations. He was a hedgehog, not a fox.”

“Dewey was a hedgehog rather than a fox; he spent his life trying to articulate and restate a single vision, and in the writings of his third decade he already exhibits the tension I have claimed to find in the later writings.”

“I watched a great show on Fox last night.”

“In some ways, it’s a pragmatic practice: Fox anchors such as Sean Hannity and, at one point, Tucker Carlson routinely attack Milley – and during the Trump years, there was also a reasonable expectation that the president would be talking to the hosts of those shows.”

“The Foxes played with plenty of initiative in the original tie at the Walkers Stadium and they started this tie in impressively positive fashion, producing the game's first two chances: Andy King's goal-bound half-volley from Steve Howard's header down was tipped over by Joe Hart and Sol Bamba headed the resultant corner wide.”

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