forth
preposition
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L333876 on Wikidata ↗adverb
- forward, outward
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fɔːθ/ / /fəθ/ / /fɔɹθ/
adj
Etymology: From fourth; compare forty.
- Misspelling of fourth.
adv
Etymology: 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.
- Forward in time, place or degree.
“From this time forth, I never will speak word.”
“say forth”
- Out into view; from a particular place or position.
“The plants in spring put forth leaves.”
“The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.”
- Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
“I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.”
“At the clashing of the cymbals the King sprang at Goldry as the panther springeth, and with the rush bare him backward and well nigh forth of the wrastling ground.”
name
Etymology: From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: From fourth; compare forty.
- Misspelling of fourth.
prep
Etymology: 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.
- Forth from; out of.
“Some forth their cabins peepe.”