| Fact |
n. |
A doing, making, or preparing. |
| Fact |
n. |
An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. |
| Fact |
n. |
Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten. |
| Fact |
n. |
The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts. |
| Facta |
pl. |
of Factum |
| Faction |
n. |
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. |
| Faction |
n. |
A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state;
usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good. |
| Faction |
n. |
Tumult; discord; dissension. |
| Factionary |
a. |
Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. |
| Factioner |
n. |
One of a faction. |
| Factionist |
n. |
One who promotes faction. |
| Factious |
a. |
Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men;
said of persons. |
| Factious |
a. |
Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction;
said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels. |
| Factitious |
a. |
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. |
| Factitive |
a. |
Causing; causative. |
| Factitive |
a. |
Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. |
| Factive |
a. |
Making; having power to make. |
| Facto |
adv. |
In fact; by the act or fact. |
| Factor |
n. |
One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. |
| Factor |
n. |
A steward or bailiff of an estate. |
| Factor |
n. |
One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product. |
| Factor |
n. |
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent. |
| Factor |
v. t. |
To resolve (a quantity) into its factors. |
| Factorage |
n. |
The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services;
called also a commission. |
| Factored |
imp. & p. p. |
of Factor |
| Factoress |
n. |
A factor who is a woman. |
| Factorial |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a factory. |
| Factorial |
a. |
Related to factorials. |
| Factorial |
n. |
A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. |
| Factorial |
n. |
The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number. |
| Factories |
pl. |
of Factory |
| Factoring |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Factor |
| Factoring |
n. |
The act of resolving into factors. |
| Factorize |
v. t. |
To give warning to;
said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff. |
| Factorize |
v. t. |
To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish. |
| Factorized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Factorize |
| Factorizing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Factorize |
| Factorship |
n. |
The business of a factor. |
| Factory |
n. |
A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. |
| Factory |
n. |
The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. |
| Factory |
n. |
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. |
| Factotum |
n. |
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. |
| Factotums |
pl. |
of Factotum |
| Factual |
a. |
Relating to, or containing, facts. |
| Factum |
n. |
A man's own act and deed |
| Factum |
n. |
Anything stated and made certain. |
| Factum |
n. |
The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity. |
| Factum |
n. |
The product. See Facient, 2. |
| Facture |
n. |
The act or manner of making or doing anything;
now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. |
| Facture |
n. |
An invoice or bill of parcels. |
