Definitions for "FIRST"
the first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to be the first"
serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 in order to develop ways to inspire students in engineering and technology fields. The first program developed was the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which is designed to inspire high school students to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers to develop a robot. The inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition was held in 1992.
prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost"
Keywords:  snake, garter, felix, saw, anything
Keywords:  gear, beer, dropzone, truely, skydiver
Adj., a landmark event in a skydiver's career, requiring him to purchase a case of beer for his fellow jumpers. Besides truely significant events (first malfunction, first jump on new gear), orally acknowledging a first for less significant events also requires a case of beer. Therefore, jumpers must constantly watch their use of the F-word.
the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first gear on steep hills"
Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles.
Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope (renamed to Herschel Space Observatory). An ESA cornerstone mission, currently in the planning stages. Spectroscopy in the 85-900 µm range. Launch anticipated in 2007, on the same carrier as Planck.
Far-Infrared Space Telescope
Forum of Incidence Response and Security Teams
A nonprofit volunteer group whose goal is to foster cooperation and coordination in incident prevention across diverse sectors, and prompt rapid reaction to incidents. Through an annual conference and its Web site at, the group promotes information sharing among its members and the incident response community at large.
the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base
Keywords:  lohan, lindsay, jake, mtv, nava
"First" is the third and last single from Lindsay Lohan's debut album Speak. The third single was originally going to be the song "Speak", with director Francis Lawrence according to MTV, but was changed so "First" ,with director Jake Nava shooting the clip, so it could be used for her film "".
the First Priestess of the Order of the Stars, the order of nine priestesses on Temple Mount. The First, like all priestesses of the Order, gave up her name on taking her vows. Niah of Nor once held this office.
earliest in time or in some other ordering first order logic predicate logic involving quantification only over individuals, not over sets properties or functions (the ordering involved here is the ordering of types of entities in terms of the logical complexity of the entities). formal of notations - defined with mathematical precision, machine processable formal analytic an analytic truth or falsehood expressed in a formal notation formalism a philosophy of mathematics mainly associated with the mathematician Hilbert.
Keywords:  berhad, mimos, oss, forensic, malaysia
Forensic Investigation & Recovery System is a project initiated by the Cyberspace Security Lab of MIMOS Berhad , MALAYSIA, to develope OSS computer, network, digital forensic solution for public usage.
The upper part of a duet, trio, etc., either vocal or instrumental; -- so called because it generally expresses the air, and has a preëminence in the combined effect.
Keywords:  canto, knew, begin, verse, poem
Returns a specified number of characters from the beginning of a text string.
the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
indicating the beginning unit in a series
ASYLUM: The country where refugees first arrive after escaping countries where they were persecuted. They may then be resettled in other countries or in that country.
the first element in a countable series; "the first of the month"
preceding all others in time or space or degree; "the first house on the right"; "the first day of spring"; "his first political race"; "her first baby"; "the first time"; "the first meetings of the new party"; "the first phase of his training"
the first element in a set. This is usually used with an index or a pointer (e.g., pchFirst), referring to the first element of an array to be dealt with. The index may be an implied index (as with a rw type in a spreadsheet).
a failure to distinguish between misunderstandings and disagreements
Keywords:  robin, naked, novel, discarded, you're
a good idea, just so you're comfortable touching patients, seeing them naked, etc
a good script, even if discarded from the Robin Cook novel
Keywords:  pdf, introduction, session
(pdf) Introduction and first session
Keywords:  specialist
a specialist in
Keywords:  tier, pupils, school, primary, aged
School A primary school for pupils aged 5 - 8 or 5 - 9 years in an area with a three-tier organisation.
Keywords:  folder, message
First message in a folder.
Keywords:  priority, over, mortgages
MORTGAGE mortgage that has priority over other mortgages.
a facility for our customers to discuss insurance related issues with others
The first person or thing comes before the others. First is abbreviated 1st.
Keywords:  commandment, cause, see
See First cause and First commandment
Keywords:  trade, day, market
The first On Market trade of the day.
_first First item in the container, or operations which will change this first item.
Keywords:  network
a network of