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Definition: Eff |
EffVerb1. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Slang | Verb. Source: In order to avoid censorship, NYC deejay's will commonly use "eff" in replace of the vulgar word. Definition: Expression of disgust. Context: Used when angry or upset. Social Source: Westchester Heights, Bronx, NY 10461. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EFF | English | Electronic Frontier Foundation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EffSynonyms: bang (v), be intimate (v), bed (v), bonk (v), do it (v), fuck (v), get it on (v), get laid (v), have a go at it (v), have intercourse (v), have it away (v), have it off (v), have sex (v), hump (v), jazz (v), know (v), lie with (v), love (v), make love (v), make out (v), screw (v), sleep with (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eff |
| Specialty definitions using "eff": Defense Trade Regulations ♦ Electronic Frontier Foundation ♦ multiddiscipline task force, multidiscipline task force ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Production. Tungsten. Transcontinental railroad traffic passes close to the tungsten recovery plant near Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war eff. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | As of mid 2001, the IMF and the Government of Ukraine were still involved in negotiations which may lead to a reinstatement of disbursements under the EFF program. (references) |
Ukraine | Ukraine rescheduled its debt with the Paris Club of sovereign borrowers in July 2001. Resumption of the IMF's EFF funding is a precondition for this debt agreement to take effect. (references) | |
Indonesia | President Abdurrahman Wahid took office in October 1999, and Indonesia and the IMF signed another EFF in January 2000. The new program also has a range of economic, structural reform, and governance targets. (references) | |
Political Economy | UKRAINE | The EFF was restarted in September 2001 after Ukraine made substantial progress in meeting the IMF's macro-economic objectives and in ensuring greater budget/fiscal transparency, privatization, and overall economic reform. (references) |
UKRAINE | Ukraines's three-year, $2.6 billion IMF EFF program began in 1998 and stipulates that the government must take steps towards tax reform, a lower budget deficit, deregulation, and other measures to encourage private investment. (references) | |
PERU | In March 1993 it cleared its $1.8 billion in arrears to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, and negotiated an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the IMF for 1993-95. The government negotiated a follow-on EFF for 1996-1998 and an unprecedented third EFF for 1999-2001. The Paris Club rescheduled almost $6 billion of Peru's official bilateral debt in 1991. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eff" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 25.00% of the time. "Eff" is used about 8 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eff | 45 |
eff eks no | 5 |
eff eff | 4 |
eff martin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 可扩展文件系列. (various references) | |
Dutch | HET-CAM TEST (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test). (various references) | |
German | HET-CAM Prüfung (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test), Hühnerei-Chorionallantois-Membran-Prüfung (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | |
Hungarian | totojázik (to eff about, to eff around, to horse around), toszogat (to eff about with sg, to eff around with sg), semmi sem (eff all, not one jot or title, nothing at all), piszkál (to badger, to chivvy, to chivy, to eff about with sg, to eff around with sg, to pick, to poke, to prod, to twit), gatyázik (to eff about, to eff around, to ponce about, to ponce around), babrál (meddle, monkey with, niggle, putter, to eff about with sg, to eff around with sg, to fiddle, to muck about, to twiddle). (various references) | |
Italian | test su sacco corioallantoideo da uova di gallina (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test), saggio sulla membrana corioallantoidea dell'embrione di pollo (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test), prova HET-CAM (Hen's Eff Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, Hen's Egg Chorion allantoic Membrane Test, HET-CAM Test, HET-CAM-test). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | effay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eff": effable, efface, effaceable, effaced, effacement, effacements, effacer, effacers, effaces, effacing, effect, effected, effecter, effecters, effecting, effective, effectively, effectiveness, effectivenesses, effectives, effectivities, effectivity, effector, effectors, effects, effectual, effectualities, effectuality, effectually, effectualness, effectualnesses, effectuate, effectuated, effectuates, effectuating, effectuation, effectuations, effeminacies, effeminacy, effeminate, effeminately, effeminates, effendi, effendis, efferent, efferently, efferents, effervesce, effervesced, effervescence, effervescences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eff": teff. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eff": aftereffect, aftereffects, cheffed, cheffing, coeffect, coeffects, coefficient, coefficients, countereffort, counterefforts, dieffenbachia, dieffenbachias, hasenpfeffer, hasenpfeffers, hyperefficient, ineffabilities, ineffability, ineffable, ineffableness, ineffablenesses, ineffably, ineffaceabilities, ineffaceability, ineffaceable, ineffaceably, ineffective, ineffectively, ineffectiveness, ineffectivenesses, ineffectual, ineffectualities, ineffectuality, ineffectually, ineffectualness, ineffectualnesses, inefficacies, inefficacious, inefficaciously, inefficaciousness, inefficaciousnesses, inefficacy, inefficiencies, inefficiency, inefficient, inefficiently, inefficients, keffiyeh, keffiyehs, noneffective, noneffectives, reffed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f" | |
-1 letter: ef. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f" | |
+1 letter: effs, fief, fife, teff. | |
+2 letters: feoff, fiefs, fifed, fifer, fifes, gaffe, offed, offer, ruffe, teffs. | |
+3 letters: affect, affine, baffed, baffle, biffed, boffed, bouffe, buffed, buffer, buffet, coffee, coffer, coffle, coiffe, cuffed, daffed, differ, doffed, doffer, duffel, duffer, duffle, efface, effect, effete, effigy, efflux, effort, effuse, farfel, feoffs, fifers, gaffed, gaffer, gaffes, goffer, griffe, haffet, huffed, iffier, luffed, miffed, muffed, muffle, niffer, offend, offers, office, offkey, offset, piaffe, piffle, pouffe, puffed, puffer, raffle, rebuff, reffed, riffed, riffle, ruffed, ruffes, ruffle, setoff, suffer, tiffed, toffee, truffe, tuffet, waffed, waffie, waffle, yaffed, zaffer, zaffre. | |
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