| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
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| for- | A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe. | |
| ford | verb i. | A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading., A stream; a current., To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through. |
| fore | verb i. | Journey; way; method of proceeding., In the part that precedes or goes first; — opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc., Formerly; previously; afore., In or towards the bows of a ship., 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., The front; hence, that which is in front; the future., Before; — sometimes written ‘fore as if a contraction of afore or before. |
| fork | noun | An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; — used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything., Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork., One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow., The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road., The gibbet., To shoot into blades, as corn., To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks., To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. |
| form | noun | A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform., The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance., Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government., Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer., Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form., Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty., A shape; an image; a phantom., That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model., A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society., The seat or bed of a hare., The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase., The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body., The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms., The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid., That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; — called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law., Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind’s own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of., The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant., To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion., To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train., To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; — said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part., To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9., To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes., To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column., To run to a form, as a hare. |
| fort | noun | A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. |
| fora | plural | of Forum |