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Date "FF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | FF form feed. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Ff A corrupt way of making a capital ~~~f F in Old English, and used as low down as 1750; as ffrance for France, ffarrington for Farrington, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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 |
FF | English | Flip-Flop | N/A |
FF | German | Französischer Franken | Finance |
FF | Italian | Fratelli | Language |
| Ff. | German | Folgend(e) | Language |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FF |
| Specialty definitions using "FF": die horribly ♦ P., P.P., P.P.P ♦ zigamorph. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FF" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (French franc). |
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Movie/TV Titles | FF (1996) | |
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| "FF 05" by Lucien Aréstegüi Commentary: "FF 05." | "FF 3" by A. Carlos Herrera Commentary: "Foggy mexican forest." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The average French person visiting the U.S. is between 25 and 45 years old, and has an average income of FF 15,000 per month. (references) | |
In four years their production increased some 70 %. Its turnover is currently some 100 million FF. Today the company has 4000 aircraft in operation in Europe. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | France | In July 2000, a Nanterre court decided against the French Association of Jehovah's Witnesses, ruling that Jehovah's Witnesses would have to pay over $42 million (300 million FF) in back taxes to the fiscal authorities. (references) |
Economic History | Senegal | The African Financial Community franc (CFA) franc, used by Senegal and 13 other African countries, was devalued by 50 percent in January 1994, but remains pegged to the French Franc (and the Euro) at the rate of 100 CFA equals one FF and 0.152 Euros. (references) |
France | France currently has 4,400 temporary help agencies, and 605,000 temporary employees were registered in 2000, which represents an increase of 15 percent over 1999. The French temporary employment market turnover (VAT excluded) increased by over 20 percent since 1999 (from FF 98.8 billion in 1999 to FF 118.6 billion in 2000 ). (references) | |
Women | France | The penalties for domestic violence vary according to the type of crime and range from 3 years' imprisonment and a fine of approximately $42,450 (300,000 FF) to 20 years in prison. (references) |
Worker Rights | France | The charges carry a sentence of 8 years' imprisonment, fines of approximately $360 (2,500 FF) and banishment from France. (references) |
France | In September a court sentenced a couple to 6 months in prison (suspended) and a $14,285 (100,000 FF) fine for enslaving a young girl from Madagascar. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FF" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 70.53% of the time. "FF" is used about 95 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 (plural) | 70.53% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Adverb (general) | 28.42% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (common) | 1.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ff | 547 | ff lockheart tifa tifa | 13 |
ff hentai | 102 | extreme ff | 13 |
2 ff x | 65 | ff it | 13 |
ff x | 62 | ff through walk x | 12 |
ff stocking | 61 | ff nylon stocking | 11 |
ff nylons | 44 | ff mm | 10 |
ff xi | 42 | boob ff | 10 |
ff tactic | 40 | ff otk | 10 |
ff vii | 38 | ff cup | 10 |
ff viii | 33 | ff picture | 10 |
ff ix | 30 | ff thompson | 9 |
ff squad | 29 | ff through viii walk | 9 |
ff x2 | 28 | ff rom | 9 |
ff malmö | 24 | ff xii | 9 |
ff pic | 22 | ff spanking | 9 |
11 ff | 22 | ff world | 8 |
ff origin | 21 | ff kalmar | 8 |
ff music | 20 | ff midi | 8 |
ff hospital thompson | 20 | ff tit | 8 |
ff insider | 17 | ff map world | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | FF-roet (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black). (various references) | |
French | Noir FF (FF carbon black). (various references) | |
German | feiner Furnaceruss (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black). (various references) | |
Italian | carbon black fino tipo fornace (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black), carbon black FF (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ffay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | negro de fumo fino de fornalha (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black), negro de fumo FF (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black). (various references) | |
Spanish | negro FF (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black), negro carbón "furnace" fino (FF carbon black, fine furnace carbon black). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FF": aff, antidandruff, baff, bailiff, biff, blastoff, blowoff, bluff, boff, boiloff, breadstuff, brushoff, buff, bullmastiff, caff, caitiff, calctuff, castoff, chaff, checkoff, chiffchaff, chuff, cliff, coff, cookoff, cowlstaff, creampuff, crossruff, cuff, cutoff, daff, dandriff, dandruff, distaff, doff, draff, duff, dustoff, dyestuff, earmuff, eff, enfeoff, falloff, feedstuff, feoff, flagstaff, fluff, flyoff, foodstuff, gaff, gliff. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FF": affabilities, affability, affable, affably, affair, affaire, affaires, affairs, affect, affectabilities, affectability, affectable, affectation, affectations, affected, affectedly, affectedness, affectednesses, affecter, affecters, affecting, affectingly, affection, affectional, affectionally, affectionate, affectionately, affectioned, affectionless, affections, affective, affectively, affectivities, affectivity, affectless, affectlessness, affectlessnesses, affects, affenpinscher, affenpinschers, afferent, afferently, afferents, affiance, affianced, affiances, affiancing, affiant, affiants, affiche, affiches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f" | |
+1 letter: aff, eff, iff, off. | |
+2 letters: baff, biff, boff, buff, caff, coff, cuff, daff, doff, duff, effs, fief, fife, gaff, guff, huff, iffy, jiff, luff, miff, muff, offs, pfft, puff, raff, riff, ruff, teff, tiff, toff, tuff, waff, yaff. | |
+3 letters: affix, baffs, baffy, biffs, biffy, bluff, boffo, boffs, buffi, buffo, buffs, buffy, caffs, chaff, chuff, cliff, coffs, cuffs, daffs, daffy, doffs, draff, duffs, feoff, fiefs, fifed, fifer, fifes, fifth, fifty, fluff, gaffe, gaffs, gliff, griff, gruff, guffs, howff, huffs, huffy, jiffs, jiffy, luffa, luffs, miffs, miffy, muffs, offal, offed, offer, pouff, puffs, puffy, quaff, quiff, raffs, riffs, ruffe, ruffs, scoff, scuff, skiff, sluff, sniff, snuff, spiff, staff, stiff, stuff, taffy, teffs, tiffs, toffs, toffy, tuffs, waffs, whiff, yaffs. | |
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