frank

adjective · noun · verbA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

franker

Superlative

frankest

1.
Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
May I be frank with you?
Đồng nghĩa: unreserved, undisguised
2.
(medicine) Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident.
The research probes whether treating pre-diabetes with metformin can prevent progression to frank diabetes.
3.
(obsolete)Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
4.
(obsolete)Liberal; generous; profuse.
5.
(derogatory, obsolete)Unrestrained; loose; licentious.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

franks

1.
Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
October 5, 1780, William Cowper, letter to Rev. William Unwin I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again.
2.
The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
3.
A hot dog or sausage.
Buy a package of franks for the barbecue.
Đồng nghĩa: frankfurt, frankfurter
4.
(UK)The grey heron.
5.
A pigsty.
6.
(alt of, historical, obsolete)Obsolete form of franc, former French coins, moneys of account, and currency.
Frank, or Franc, an ancient coin, either of gold or ſilver, ſtruck and current in France. The value of the gold frank was ſomewhat more than that of the gold crown; the ſilver frank was a third of the gold one; this coin is long out of uſe, though the term is ſtill retained as the name of a money of account; in which ſenſe it is equivalent to the livre, or twenty ſols.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

franks

V_ing/Gerund

franking

V_ed/pp

franked

1.
(transitive)To place a frank on an envelope.
2.
(transitive)To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
3.
(transitive)To send by public conveyance free of expense.
1850-1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words This required extensive correspondence; so, in the next place, the privilege of franking letters in reference to the emigrants' registration office, was obtained—much to the indignation of red tapists.
4.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

unreserved undisguisedfrankfurtfrankfurterfree-spoken

Cùng gốc / liên quan

prepay

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English frank, from Old French franc (free), in turn from the name of an early Germanic - confederation, the Franks, from *frankō (javelin, spear). Frank franc farang.