Faye vs Far - What's the difference?
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A female given name, a spelling variant of Fay.
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Remote in space.
Remote in time.
Long.
More remote or longer of two.
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Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
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(computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
Distant in space, time or degree.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
To or from a great distance, time, or degree.
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(lb) Very much.
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As a proper noun faye
is a female given name, a spelling variant of fay.As a noun far is
accident, anger, calamity or far can be sheep.faye
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Ten years ago, shortly before her sister married her husband, Bobby Gow, she announced to the family that she did not want to be known as Faith any longer; henceforward her name was to be Faye .
far
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(wikipedia far)Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther.
Antonyms
* (remote in space) close, nearDerived terms
* afar * as far as * by far * faraway * far from * far off * how far * so far * thus farAdverb
(en-adv)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.}}