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"FOES" is a plural of: foe. |
Date "FOES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Solar | The maximum ORDINARY MODE radiowave frequency capable of reflec- tion from the SPORADIC E REGION of the IONOSPHERE. (references) |
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| 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 |
FOES | English | First-order equipment selector | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FOES |
| English words defined with "FOES": Combatable ♦ enemy ♦ foe ♦ To play snow one's cards. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FOES": Back and Edge, Banner ♦ Camillus, Cockade, Cockle Shells, Comet, Copperheads ♦ Dum Spiro, Spero ♦ Inogene ♦ Knife ♦ Lord's Prayer ♦ Musits ♦ These, Those. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Water scorches like acid, and fledglings are devastated by sunlight's touch I would have to modify my tactics to suit my foes. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce) | |
Lyrics | Beaches, houses, hoes, foes, friends (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fee Fie Foes (1961) Friends and Foes (1915) Neighbors or Foes (1996) Foes (1977) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Elbert Hubbard | The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do. |
John Dryden | Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. |
| The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. | |
Siddha Nagarjuna | Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. |
Thomas Jefferson | The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes. |
Virgil | Our foes will provide us with arms. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | We're not the ones saying that people of African decent can't be racist, or trying to defeat foes by throwing around the term at anyone whose ideas we fear. |
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| "FOES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "FOES" is used about 96 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) | 93.75% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.17% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FOES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Feinde (enemies, fiends). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oesfay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | hamerethanãm. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 2, Verse 35 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EwV an qw touV ecqrouV sou upopodion twn podwn sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Donec ponam inimicos tuos scabillum pedum tuorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Oð ic do þæt þine feondbeon þinum fotum fotstol."’ c |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Sitte thou on my riyt half, til Y putte thin enemyes a stool of thi feet. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Vntill I make thy fooes thy fote stole. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Until I make thy foes thy footstool. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Until I make thy foes thy footstool. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Till I put all those who are against you under your feet. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 2, Verse 35 |
| Albanian | derisa unë t'i vë armiqtë e tu si stol të këmbëve të tua!". |
| Cebuano | hangtud nga ang imong mga kaaway pagahimoon ko nang tumbanan sa imong mga tiil.` |
| Croatian | dok ne položim neprijatelje tvoje za podnožje nogama tvojim! |
| Danish | indtil jeg får lagt dine Fjender som en Skammel for dine Fødder." |
| Dutch | Totdat Ik Uw vijanden zal gezet hebben tot een voetbank Uwer voeten. |
| Finnish | kunnes minä panen sinun vihollisesi sinun jalkojesi astinlaudaksi.` |
| French | Jusqu`Ã ce que je fasse de tes ennemis ton marchepied. |
| German | bis daß ich deine Feinde lege zum Schemel deiner Füße." |
| Haitian Creole | jouk tan mwen fè lènmi ou yo tounen yon ti ban pou lonje pye ou. |
| Hungarian | MÃglen vetem a te ellenségeidet lábaid alá zsámolyul. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Duduklah di sebelah kanan-Ku, sampai Aku membuat musuh-musuh-Mu takluk kepada-Mu!' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sehingga Aku menaklukkan segala musuh-Mu menjadi alas kaki-Mu. |
| Italian | finché io ponga i tuoi nemici come sgabello ai tuoi piedi. |
| Maori | Kia meinga ra ano e ahau ou hoariri hei turanga waewae mou. |
| Norwegian | til jeg får lagt dine fiender til skammel for dine føtter! |
| Portuguese | até que eu ponha os teus inimigos por escabelo de teus pés. |
| Rumanian | pknqce voi pune pe vrqjmawii Tqi supt picioarele Tale.` |
| Russian | Ð"ПЛПМЕ РПМПЦХ ЧТБЗПЧ фЧПЙИ Ч РПÐ"ОПЦЙЕ ОПЗ фЧПЙИ. |
| Shuar | Ame nemasrumin nupetkattajai. Nu Túruntsain jui Pujustá' TÃmiayi." Nunà aarmaiti Jesusnan, TÃmiayi. |
| Spanish | hasta que ponga a tus enemigos por estrado de tus pies." |
| Swahili | hadi nitakapowafanya adui zako kibao cha kukanyagia miguu yako.` |
| Swedish | till dess jag har lagt dina fiender dig till en fotapall. |
| Uma | duu' -na kupopengkoru hawe'ea bali' -nu hi Iko.' |
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Misspellings | |
"FOES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: efos, faesc, feo, feods, fes, fesw, ffees, fies, foase, foea, foeb, foed, foee, foeg, foen, foer, foest, foet, foey, foez, Fogels, foins, fois, foix, fokes, foks, fones, foos, fos, fose, fosel, foser, Fosh, fosk, Fous, foves, fowe, fows, foxs, foys, fozes, fres, fses, ftes, fuis, fuose, fus, fwes, ofays, ofee, Ofek, of'em, Ofos, ofs, voes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FOES" (pronounced fō"z) |
| 2 | -ō" z | arose, bestows, blows, Brose, chose, close, compose, crows, decompose, depose, disclose, dispose, doze, Eaux, enclose, expose, flows, foreclose, forgoes, froze, glows, goes, grows, hoes, hose, impose, interpose, Joes, juxtapose, knows, Lowes, lows, noes, nose, ohs, oppose, ose, overexpose, owes, plainclothes, pose, pows, predispose, presuppose, propose, pros, prose, reimpose, repose, roes, rose, rows, shows, slows, snows, sows, superimpose, suppose, tarots, those, throes, throws, toes, tows, transpose, woes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-o-s" | |
-1 letter: efs, foe, oes, ose. | |
-2 letters: ef, es, oe, of, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-o-s" | |
+1 letter: feods, floes, fores, fosse, foxes, froes. | |
+2 letters: befogs, defogs, felons, feoffs, fetors, ficoes, filose, foehns, foetus, fogeys, fogies, folles, forces, forest, forges, formes, fortes, fossae, fosses, foster, foveas, foyers, fresco, fucose, gofers, gonefs, offers, offset, oftest, setoff, soften, softer, softie. | |
+3 letters: befools, befouls, bouffes, coffees, coffers, coffles, coiffes, confers, confess, confuse, defoams, defocus, deforms, defrost, doffers, efforts, eftsoon, enfolds, fatsoes, fedoras, feijoas, felloes, fellows, ferrous, fervors, festoon, flexors, floosie, florets, flossed, flosses, flossie, flowers, foamers, focused, focuser, focuses, fodders, foetors, foggers, fogless, foibles, foisted, folates, folders, foliose, folkies, follies, foments, fomites, fondest, fondles, fondues, foodies, footers, footies, footles, footsie, foozles, forages, forceps, forcers, fordoes, foresaw, foresee, forests, forgers, forgets, forgoes, forkers, formers, forsake, forties, fossate, fosters, foulest, fowlers, foxiest, foziest, frescos, frontes, frosted, fucoses, fulsome, fungoes, furores, goffers, golfers, hoofers, loafers, lofters, nonself, offends, offense, offices, offsets, offside, olefins, oneself, ourself, pouffes, profess, profuse, reflows, refocus, refolds, reforms, reroofs, rolfers, roofers, safrole, scoffed, scoffer, seafood, seafowl, selfdom, sendoff, serfdom, setoffs, softens, softest, softies, solfege, souffle, spoofed, spoofer, sulfone, toffees, toffies, twofers, wolfers, woofers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Bible Trace 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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