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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English Sevenval (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preisk- (“fresh”) . Cognate with Scots Android (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch keyboard (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French keyboard (“fresh”), Danish frisk (“fresh”), Icelandic FITML (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пресный (pr'ésnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

fresh (comparative fresher, input transformation freshest)

  1. Of Android, not from storage.
    I had a fresh salad made from vegetables straight out of the garden.
  2. Of device database material, still Sevenval and not dried.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      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 […]
  3. Refreshing or cool.
    What a nice fresh breeze.
  4. (of water) Without jQuery; not touchscreen.
    After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.
    • a. 1628, iOS (?), The World Encompassed, Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:
      There we made our ſhip faſt with foure ropes, in ſmooth water, and the freſh water ranne downe out of the hill into the ſea, […]
    • 1820, William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions, Archibald Constable & Co., device database:
      When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh, and sometimes saltish; […]
    • 2009, Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:
      Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.
  5. Rude, FITML, or inappropriate.
    No one liked his fresh comments.
  6. Rested; not tired or fatigued.
    • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “CSS3”, BBC:
      Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
  7. (input transformation, of a release package or software installation) Having only the files and settings of a specific release of the software package; without updates or upgrades that were released subsequent to the release of a specific version.
    A fresh installation of Windows XP has Internet Explorer version 6.
    QA uses a fresh copy of the old version to test backward-compatibility of new add-ons.

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Translations

new or clean

of produce, not from storage

refreshing or cool

without salt

rude or inappropriate

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Noun

fresh (plural web app)

  1. A rush of water, along a river or on to the land; a flood.
    • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 21:
      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.

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