forth
see also: Forth
Pronunciation
Forth
Proper noun
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see also: Forth
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /fɔːθ/
- (America) IPA: /fɔɹθ/
- (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /fo(ː)ɹθ/
- (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /foəθ/
From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European , from *per-.
Adverbforth (not comparable)
- Forward in time, place or degree.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene ii], page 159 ↗:
- From this time forth, I never will speak word.
- 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England
- say forth
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- “ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene v]:
- I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
- Russian: вперёд
- (obsolete) Forth from; out of.
- a. 1631, John Donne, The Storme:
- Some forth their cabins peepe.
- Misspelling of fourth
- Misspelling of fourth
Forth
Proper noun
- 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.
- A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
- A village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
Proper noun- 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.
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