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Definition: FEU |
FEUNoun1. A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money. |
Date "FEU" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | Forty foot equivalent units of shipping containers. (Two 20 ft containers = 1 FEU). (references) |
Shipping | Abbreviation for "Forty-Foot Equivalent Units." Refers to container size standard of forty feet. Two twenty-foot containers or TEU's equal one FEU. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder. |
Attack | Fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer. |
Celebration | Triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FEU |
| English words defined with "FEU": Feu de joie, Feuar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FEU": Curfew Bell ♦ Olia Podrida, O'lio ♦ Pot of Hospitality, Pot-luck ♦ underwriters' laboratories. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FEU": Boutefeu ♦ Feuar. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FEU" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (blaze, bonfire, fire, flame, glow, heat, light, traffic light), French Canadian (light), Manx (fee), Papiamen (nasty, ugly). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Feu aux lèvres (1973) Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1972) Les Portes de feu (1972) Le Feu sacré (1971) Coup de feu (1970) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Feu d'artifice / Gaston Hoffmann.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Le bon feu 1914-1915-1916. N'oubliez pas ceux qui ont froid.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Le Hohwald. Champ du Feu, Alsace / Roger Broders ; printed by the Chemins de fer D'Alsace et de Lorraine (Railways of Alsace and Lorraine).Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / F.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Le bon feu 1914-1915-1916. N'oubliez pas ceux qui ont froid.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Premiers au feu means in French first to fight, in English U.S. Marines / F.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Congo | Feu d'or Bosange Ifonge, a music reporter who was arrested in 1999, fled to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where he died of unknown causes in September. (references) |
Human Rights | Cameroon | One example occurred in May, when a traditional chief in the Maroua area, Dairou Yaya, sold to a local politician a parcel of land belonging to the family of Feu Bouba Toumba, who reportedly had lived there for 30 years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FEU" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.00% of the time. "FEU" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 28% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "FEU": feu de joie ♦ feu d'enfer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FEU": Pot-au-feu. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "FEU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lehen (feoff, fief, vassalage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thalloo er beayn-vaayl, bargane-soiagh beayn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eufay салют в честь знаменательного события (feu de joie). (various references) sabit kiralı süresiz kontrat. (various references) loạt súng mừng (feu de joie), loạt súng ch o (feu de joie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FEU": feuar, feuars, feud, feudal, feudalism, feudalisms, feudalist, feudalistic, feudalists, feudalities, feudality, feudalization, feudalizations, feudalize, feudalized, feudalizes, feudalizing, feudally, feudaries, feudary, feudatories, feudatory, feuded, feuding, feudist, feudists, feuds, feued, feuilleton, feuilletonism, feuilletonisms, feuilletonist, feuilletonists, feuilletons, feuing, feus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FEU": chauffeur, chauffeured, chauffeuring, chauffeurs, coiffeur, coiffeurs, coiffeuse, coiffeuses, prefeudal, semifeudal, subinfeudate, subinfeudated, subinfeudates, subinfeudating, subinfeudation, subinfeudations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "eu": Eu. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-u" | |
-1 letter: ef. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-u" | |
+1 letter: feud, feus, flue, fuel, fume, fuse, fuze. | |
+2 letters: fauve, femur, fetus, feuar, feuds, feued, fique, flued, flues, fluke, flume, flute, fudge, fuels, fugle, fugue, fumed, fumer, fumes, fumet, furze, fused, fusee, fusel, fuses, fuzed, fuzee, fuzes, ruffe, unfed. | |
+3 letters: befoul, begulf, bouffe, buffed, buffer, buffet, cuffed, curfew, defund, defuse, defuze, duffel, duffer, duffle, earful, efflux, effuse, engulf, eyeful, faceup, fauces, faucet, faunae, fauves, fecula, fecund, femurs, ferrum, ferula, ferule, fescue, feuars, feudal, feuded, feuing, figure, fiques, fixure, fleury, fluent, fluked, flukes, flukey, flumed, flumes, fluted, fluter, flutes, flutey, fluxed, fluxes, foetus, fondue, fouled, fouler, frenum, fubbed, fucked, fucker, fucose, fuddle, fudged, fudges, fueled, fueler, fugged, fugled, fugles, fugued, fugues, fuhrer, fulled, fuller, fumble, fumers, fumets, fumier, funded, funest, funked, funker, funned, funnel, funner, furane, furies, furled, furler, furore, furred, furzes, fusees, fusels, fusile, fussed, fusser, fusses, futile, future, futzed, futzes, fuzees, fuzzed, fuzzes, gulfed, huffed, infuse, ireful, luffed, muffed, muffle, poufed, pouffe, puffed, puffer, purfle, rebuff, reflux, refuel, refuge, refund, refuse, refute, rueful, ruffed, ruffes, ruffle, suffer, surfed, surfer, truffe, tuffet, tufted, tufter, tumefy, turfed, unfelt, unfree, unsafe, useful, waeful, woeful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 55 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E U |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0055 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403955 |
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