Forth

//fɔːθ// adj, adv, name, noun, prep

adj, adv, name, noun, prep ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Misspelling of fourth. alt-of, misspelling
Adjective
  1. 1
    Misspelling of fourth. alt-of, misspelling
Adverb
  1. 1
    Forward in time, place or degree. archaic, formal, not-comparable

    "From this time forth, I never will speak word."

  2. 2
    Out into view; from a particular place or position. archaic, formal, not-comparable

    "The plants in spring put forth leaves."

  3. 3
    Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. not-comparable, obsolete

    "I have no mind of feasting forth to-night."

Adverb
  1. 1
    out into view wordnet
  2. 2
    forward in time or order or degree wordnet
  3. 3
    from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete) wordnet
Preposition
  1. 1
    Forth from; out of. obsolete

    "Some forth their cabins peepe."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
  2. 2
    A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
  3. 3
    An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.

    "PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages."

  4. 4
    A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
  5. 5
    A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.

Synonyms

All synonyms
onwardaheadaleealongawayaway

Example

More examples

"They dance in circles to communicate a short distance, and shake their bodies and dart back and forth to indicate a longer distance."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥-to-, from *per-. Cognates include Dutch voort and German fort. See also ford.

Etymology 2

From fourth; compare forty.

Etymology 3

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

Related phrases

Firth of Forthand so forthback and forthblossom forthbody forthbring forthburst forthcall forthcome forthfind forthforth-issuinggive forth

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