fresh

1. fresh (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Newly produced or obtained; recent.

Example: He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

Concept: Свежесть

Polarities of the concept

2. fresh (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.

Example: After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

3. fresh (adj) — sense 3

Definition: (of plant material) Still green and not dried.

Example: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

4. fresh (adv) — sense 4

Definition: Recently; just recently; most recently.

Example: We are fresh out of milk.

5. fresh (noun) — sense 5

Definition: A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

Example: They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.

6. fresh (noun) — sense 6

Definition: A stream or spring of fresh water.

Example: […]And take his bottle from him. / When that's gone, / He shall drink naught but brine, for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.

7. fresh (noun) — sense 7

Definition: The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Example: When they cross any great Water, or violent Fresh, or Torrent, they throw Tobacco, Puccoon, Peak, or some other valuable thing, that they happen to have about there, to intreat the Spirit presiding there, to grant them a safe passage. It is call'd a Fresh, when after very great Rains, or (as we suppose) after a great Thaw of the Snow and Ice lying upon the Mountains Page 43 to the North West, the Water descends, in such abundance into the Rivers, that they overflow the Banks which bound their Streams at other times.

8. fresh (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To pack (fish) loosely on ice.

Example: With the exception of about 1800 crans which were "rough packed," all the herrings landed during the winter months were freshed and kippered.

9. fresh (verb) — sense 9

Definition: To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.

Example: Our first assumption was that freshed sea water areas were favourable for these organisms.

10. fresh (verb) — sense 10

Definition: To become stronger.

Example: Horrible was now my condition, as the wind freshed up more and more.