Fore
[fɔː] or [fɔr]
Definition
(adj.) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel .
(adv.) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; 'the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments'.
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Definition
(v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
(adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
(adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
(adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
(adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
(n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
(prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Anterior, preceding, prior.[2]. Front, not back, not behind.
Edited by Leopold
Definition
adj. in front of: advanced in position: coming first.—adv. at the front: in the first part: previously: (golf) a warning cry to any person in the way of the ball to be played.—Fore and aft lengthwise of a ship.—At the fore displayed on the foremast (of a flag); To the fore forthcoming: (Scot.) in being alive.
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Examples
- The board on the fore part is lower than the others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- My Inglese frend tell to me afterwards dat Inglant is most célébere fore her agriculture! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It'll be long enough 'fore you get more. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They were so placed that when a rat passed over them the fore feet on the one plate and the hind feet on the other completed the circuit and the rat departed this life, electrocuted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In his new engine, the Samson, he adopted the plan of coupling the fore and rear wheels of the engine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin fore-finger, as a professor might who was lecturing on a bone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I go, an dey make me pay fore von book, vish I read. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On the back or fore side of it? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He had been placed in a sleeping posture, head on the right fore-arm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'll make ye give out, though, 'fore I've done! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You see that it is no less than fifteen inches from fore-foot to hind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She convoyed Donne past his dread enemy Tartar, who, with his nose on his fore paws, lay snoring under the meridian sun. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fore part of his head was bald; but the hair grew thin and long behind, and every separate lock was a conduit for water. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If _he_'--he pointed with his skinny fore-finger up the stairs--'is so hard with you (he's a brute, Nance, a brute-beast), why don't you--' 'Well? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The latter was seated in front, and guided the carriage by means of a handle, which turned the fore wheels. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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