How to pronounce “fair”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (original sense, archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
• Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
• Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.
• Just.
• Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
• (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.
• Favorable, pleasant.
• (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
• (baseball) Between the baselines.
• (rugby, of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
• (cricket, of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no ball.
• (statistics) Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
• [Noun]
• Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
• (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
• (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
• A fair woman; a sweetheart.
• (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
• (transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
• (transitive, art) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
• (transitive) To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
• (transitive, obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
• (intransitive, of weather) To become fair (favorable, not stormy).

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