Fore

Definition: Fore

Fore

Adjective

1. (nautical) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel.

2. Located anteriorly.

Adverb

1. Near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments".

Noun

1. Front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Fore

Completeness

Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.

Front

Verb: be in front, stand in front; Adjective: front, face, confront; bend forwards; come to the front, come to the fore.

Noun: front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk, disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece; anteriority; obverse.

Fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first line; scout.

Adjective: fore, anterior, front, frontal.

Length

From end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.

The Past

Noun: the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne; eld.

Warning

Interjection: beware! ware! take care! look out! fore!, mind what you are about!, take care what you are about! mind!

Crosswords: Fore

Italian (foreigner).

Fore we see it you take it (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler); performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Mr. Fore by Fore (1944)

Fore (1930)

Shamrock to the Fore (1901)

Fazoni i Fore 2 (2002)

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Books

• Fore All Golfers! (reference)

• Golf Fore Beginners: The Fundamentals (reference)

• Maze Golf: The Maze Game That Scores Like Golf!: Fun Fore the Whole Family (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Grainger: To the Fore! (reference)

• Fore! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Boat rigged for pole and line fishing. Note live bait tanks on deck fore and aft of pilot house. Poles of varying size are secured in vertical position ready for fishing. The largest poles are rigged to the pulley system that can be seen approximately 5 meters above the deck. Credit: Fisheries.

Beached on the eastern side of Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, soon after the storm. View looks to the northward. Note her damaged bow, crew's laundry drying in the rigging, and lowered fore and main topmasts. Credit: NAVY.

Ships fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, 19 March 1918. The six destroyers are Little (DD-79), Kimberly (DD-80), Sigourney (DD-81), Gregory (DD-82), Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's hull numbers 274-277 and 280-281 respectively. The freighter at right is Katrina Luckenbach, yard hull # 267, which served as USS Katrina Luckenbach in 1918-19. Most of the equipment on the pier is for her. Note the large submarine being built in the background, under the revolving crane. Credit: NAVY.

At the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company's Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1918. Fedora Bianchi is 3rd from left in back row, with a check mark over her head. Note that several of these women are wearing an overcoat instead of the standard uniform coat-cape, as authorized by Captain W.R. Rush, Commandant, First Naval District. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed by her builder, Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on 6 October 1942. Note sailors with rifles on guard fore and aft. Credit: NAVY.

At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, circa April 1898. Note battery of four 5"/40 guns located on her sides, fore and aft of the superstructure. This was by far the heaviest battery fitted to any yacht converted for Spanish-American War service. Credit: NAVY.

Maneuvering in line abreast formation during exercises off Block Island, Rhode Island, in April 1947. Nearest submarine is USS Sarda (SS-488). USS Torsk (SS-423) is next. Both are fitted with 5"/25 deck guns fore and aft. Credit: NAVY.

At anchor in the Hamoaze River, off Plymouth, England, in 1865. The original print is mounted on a carte de visite. Note the lowered bulwarks abreast her two turrets, hammocks stowed around the turret tops to form rifle pits, and her tripod fore and main masts. She was reportedly the first ship fitted with tripod masts, which eliminated standing rigging, thus increasing the arc of her turrets' gunfire. Credit: NAVY.

Mate of the Mildred Louise, bootlegger: a dead calm, sir and I regret to report that the fore part of the ship ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Union meeting of Fore River shipyard workers (IUMSWA-Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America). One of the topics discussed was defense housing. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Et de Caligula, quod palam denunciarit se neque civem neque principem senatui amplius fore, inque animo habuerit interempto utriusque ordinis electissimo quoque Alexandriam commigrare, ac ut populum uno ictu interimeret, unam ei cervicem optavit. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Kuru is a rare, degenerative, and fatal brain disorder that occurs primarily among the Fore natives in the highlands of New Guinea. (references)

Economic History

France

Intelligent airbags, speed control radar, anti-collision and stationary object detection devices are just a few of the technological advances coming to the fore to reshape the industry. (references)

Bahrain

Nevertheless, new possibilities for oil exploration have recently come to the fore with the long-awaited settlement of the Hawar island dispute by the International Court of Justice in February 2000. The newly available territory is deemed to have commercially viable prospects for oil and gas. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

New possibilities for oil and gas exploration have recently come to the fore with the long-awaited settlement of the Hawar island dispute with Qatar by the International Court of Justice in February 2000. (references)

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Expressions using "fore": at the fore ♦ bring to the fore ♦ come to the fore ♦ fore and aft ♦ fore and aft bridge,connecting bridge ♦ fore and after ♦ Fore bay ♦ fore beam ♦ Fore body ♦ fore boom ♦ Fore boot ♦ Fore bow ♦ Fore cabin ♦ Fore carriage ♦ Fore course ♦ fore deep ♦ Fore door ♦ Fore eccentric ♦ Fore edge ♦ Fore elder ♦ Fore end ♦ fore finger ♦ fore foot ♦ Fore girth ♦ Fore hammer ♦ Fore leg ♦ Fore part ♦ Fore peak ♦ Fore piece ♦ fore plane ♦ Fore reading ♦ Fore rent ♦ Fore ribs ♦ Fore sheets ♦ Fore shore ♦ Fore sight ♦ Fore tackle ♦ Fore teeth ♦ Fore tooth ♦ Fore topmast ♦ Fore wind ♦ Fore world ♦ Lake Of The Fore ♦ step to the fore ♦ the fore part of a train ♦ to the fore. Additional references.

Beginning with "fore": fore-aft, fore-and-aft, fore-and-aft rig, Fore-and-aft rigged, fore-and-aft sail, fore-and-aft sails, fore-and-aft topsail, fore-and-after, fore-and-aft-sail, fore-arc, fore-arm, fore-arms, fore-bear, fore-cabin, fore-casting, fore-edge, fore-edges, Fore-fathers, fore-finger, fore-front, fore-gill, fore-ground, fore-grounded, fore-hall, fore-heads, fore-hooves, fore-intending, fore-knowledge, fore-knuckle, fore-leg, fore-legs, fore-limb, fore-limbs, fore-mentioned, Fore-night, fore-ordained, fore-part, fore-paw, fore-paws, fore-quarter, fore-reach, fore-runner, fore-shore, fore-shortened, fore-stomach, Fore-tex, fore-thought, fore-tooth, Fore-topgallant, fore-topmast, fore-topsail, fore-wings, fore-words.

Ending with "fore": off-fore.

Afrikaans

voorgrond (close-up, foreground). (various references)

Albanian

pjesë e përparme (forefront, forehead, forepart, toe), përpara (afore, ahead, along, before, ere, erst, erstwhile, foremost, forth, forward, frontward, frontwards, in advance, in front, in front of, of old, onward, or, past, preliminary, previous to, prior to), në krye (forward, headmost), i kreut (head, leading, uppermost), ballë i anijes, ballë (brow, façade, forefront, forehead, front). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقدمة (advance guard, foreword, headlong, introduction, preamble, preface, prelude, premise, proem, vanguard), ‏قبل (accede, accept, admit, agree to, approve of, assent, be accepted, before, concede, consent, in front of, kiss, ok, okay, okey, previous, previously, prior, sanction, settle for, subscribe, take, until), ‏سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, ex-, foregoing, former, harbinger, last, once, past, preamble, preceding, preliminary, previous, prior, quondam, race), ‏إلى الأمام (come on, forward), ‏أمامي (advance, anterior, forward, front, frontal, leading), ‏أول (chief, foremost, former, initial, premier). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внимание топка, отпред (ahead, at the front, before, from the front, in front), предна част (forepart, front, head), преден (advance, advanced, anterior, forward, front, frontal, head, leading, preceding, previous). (various references)

Chinese 

在前部, 前面 (front). (various references)

Czech

přední èást (forepart), přední (anterior, eminent, forward, front, major, obverse, premier, prominent). (various references)

Danish

for (by, for, from, of, on, since, to, too, too much, toward, towards). (various references)

Dutch

voren (naar), voorgrond (close-up, foreground), voorbeschikking. (various references)

Esperanto

antaŭo. (various references)

Faeroese

frum- (fore-, greatgrand-), forn- (fore-, greatgrand-). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشین (Antecedent, Former, Olden, Previous, Primeval, Primitive, Prior, Pristine), پیشوندبمعنی پیش وجلوقبلاوپیشروها, پیش (Ahead, Along, Before, Beforehand, Foreside, Forth, Forward, Front, Past, Presence, To), قبلی (Predecessor, Previous, Prior), جلوی (Former, Forward, Prior), درجلو (Former). (various references)

Finnish

x-akseli-tärinä (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, shunt, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration), viime aikoina päivätykseen tulleet asiat (matters which have recently come to the fore), pitkittäissuuntainen tärinä (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, shunt, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration), lehmäsilta (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, monkey bridge), keskitason tärinä (fore-and-aft vibration, longitudinal vibration, shunt, surge, transverse vibration, x-axis vibration), kaljusilta (cat walk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, fore and aft bridge, monkey bridge), etusyvänne (fore deep, foredeep, foretrough), etusääri (fore leg), etummaiset kylkiluut (chuck rib, fore rib), etujalka (fore leg, forehand, foreleg), alkukaari (fore-arc). (various references)

French

à l'AVANT. (various references)

German

vorn (ahead, at the front, before, in front). (various references)

Greek 

πρότεροσ (former, previous, prior, quondam), πρότερο, εμπρόσ (ahead, along, come along, forth, forward, forwards, front, on, onwards). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפני (ahead, before, in front of), חלק קדמי (forequarter), חזית (faחade, foreground, front, frontage), ראש (beginning, chief, crest, head, principal, start, summit). (various references)

Hungarian

hajó orra (bow, head). (various references)

Indonesian

takdir (destiny, fate, fore-ordination, predestination), mengangkasa (be airbone, come to the fore, soar), lengan depan (fore arm). (various references)

Italian

prua (bow, nose, prow), parte anteriore (forefront, forepart, front), di prua, davanti (ahead, by, formerly, front, in front, opposite, previously), anteriore (anterior, foregoing, former, forward, front, preceding, prior). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW), 前部 (front, front part). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜんぶ (a meal, all, altogether, cooking, entire, food, front, front part, table, whole), フォア . (various references)

Korean 

앞 (foregoing). (various references)

Manx

toshiaght (beginning, bow, bow of ship, captain, captain of team, commencement, curtain-raiser, dawn, dawning, forefront, forepart, forestalling, genesis, getaway, inception, initiation, lead, opening, origin, outset, preliminary, start, stem, threshold, threshold of pain etc, vanguard), toshee (chief, commencing, forward, front, of the beginning, precursory, pre-eminent, prefatory, preliminary, primary, senior, terminal), cor (alternate, bastard, bastard of size, circumstance, condition, condition terms, depression, edge, event, odd, turn, turn act, twirl). (various references)

Norwegian

forrest (foremost, forward), foran (before, in front of), for-. (various references)

Pig Latin

orefay.(various references)

Portuguese

situado adiante, primeiro (early, first, forehand, foremost, former, initial, leading, origin, preparative, primal, primary, prime), prévio (precursory, prefatory, prep, preparatory, previous, prior), dianteiro (foremost, forward, front, headmost, up-to-date), anteriormente (above, ago, anteriorly, back, back of, before, behind, first, foremost, formerly, previously, theretofore), anterior (aforegoing, antecedent, erstwhile, first, former, front, last, preceding, previous, prior, whilom), adiante (ahead, foreward, forth, forward, in front, on, upward), à proa (afore), a proa, a parte da frente, a parte anterior. (various references)

Romanian

prorã (head, nose, prow, rostrum), partea anterioarã, dinainte (beforehand, forward), din faţã (forward, foul, front, full face), de dinainte, atenţie! la o parte, anterior (above, anterior, foregoing, former, formerly, prevenient, previous, prior, prior to), înainte (afore, ahead, along, before, beforehand, formerly, forth, forward, forwards, in advance, on, onward), în prezenţã (in the face of), în faţã (afront, ahead, before, forward, in the eye of, onward, over against). (various references)

Russian 

впереди (afore, ahead, ahead of, in front of, onward), вперед (ahead, along, forrader, forward, frontward, frontwards, frontways, frontwise, onward), в носовой части, носовая часть, передний (anterior, forward, front, head, headmost). (various references)

Scottish

soc (fore end of anything; ploughshare, forepart of anything, snout), gadair (tie the fore feet of a horse), gàirdean (arm, fore-arm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spreda (afore, ahead, front: in front), prednji deo (forepart, front), prednji (anterior, foreground, forward, front, nose). (various references)

Spanish

frente (brow, face, forehead, front, frontage, line), delantero (foremost, forward, front, head, leading), delante (ahead, before, by, formerly, previously), de proa (forward), atención (acuity, advertence, advertency, alertness, attention, attentiveness, beware, care, chariness, heed, kindness, look out, notice, regard, solicitude, thoughtfulness), anterior (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, before, earlier, former, formerly, front, past, preceding, previous, prior). (various references)

Swedish

fram- (forward, overhanging), främre (anterior, forward, front). (various references)

Thai

ที่ขนานไปกับลำเรือ (fore-and-arf). (various references)

Turkish

pruva (bow, foretop, prow, stem), dikkat (application, attention, attentiveness, beware, care, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, cave, look out, note, notice, regard, remark, shun, ware, watch out, watchfulness), baş taraf, öndeki (anterior, forward, front), ön (ante-, anterior, face, forward, front, frontal, initiative, pre-, precursory, preliminary, presence, pro-). (various references)

Turkmen 

alyndaky. (various references)

Ukrainian

раніше (above, afore, aforetime, already, antecedently, anteriorly, before, before now, earlier on, erst, erstwhile, formerly, in the past, previous to, previously, prior to, sooner, supra), гей, попереду, ніс (beak, beezer, boco, boko, conk, nose, nozzle, snitch), носовий (nasal), попереду (afore, ahead, before, prior to), передній (forward, front, headmost). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ở tại chỗ, ở phía trước, ở đằng mũi tàu. (various references)

Welsh

blaen (anterior, apex, edge, end, first, foremost, front, point, precedence, priority, tip, top, van). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "fore": forearm, forearmed, forearming, forearms, forebay, forebays, forebear, forebears, forebode, foreboded, foreboder, foreboders, forebodes, forebodies, foreboding, forebodingly, forebodingness, forebodingnesses, forebodings, forebody, foreboom, forebooms, forebrain, forebrains, foreby, forebye, forecaddie, forecaddies, forecast, forecastable, forecasted, forecaster, forecasters, forecasting, forecastle, forecastles, forecasts, forecheck, forechecked, forechecker, forecheckers, forechecking, forechecks, foreclose, foreclosed, forecloses, foreclosing, foreclosure, foreclosures, forecourt, forecourts. (additional references)

Words ending with "fore": afore, before, hereinbefore, heretofore, pinafore, therefore, theretofore, wherefore. (additional references)

Words containing "fore": afforest, afforestation, afforestations, afforested, afforesting, afforests, aforementioned, aforesaid, aforethought, agroforester, agroforesters, agroforestries, agroforestry, antiforeclosure, antiforeign, antiforeigner, beforehand, beforetime, deforest, deforestation, deforestations, deforested, deforesting, deforests, headforemost, pinafored, pinafores, rainforest, rainforests, reafforest, reafforestation, reafforestations, reafforested, reafforesting, reafforests, reforest, reforestation, reforestations, reforested, reforesting, reforests, sternforemost, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unforested, wherefores. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afori, bfore, farbe, farew, farje, Farre, feore, Fere, feroe, Fiora, fiore, flore, foar, fobe, foce, fode, foeb, foee, foeg, foer, Fofe, foie, foire, foke, fome, foor, fooze, fope, forb, forbe, forc, forde, Fordel, forea, fored, foree, forei, forek, forel, forem, foren, foreo, forep, Forer, foret, forex, forey, Forez, forf, forg, fori, foril, Forio, forit, forje, formee, Forn, Fornebu, forper, forq, forr, forre, forren, Forret, forrey, forro, forse, foru, forve, forw, forx, forye, Forz, Fote, foure, fourme, fove, fowe, foxe, foxee, foye, foyee, fre, freo, frex, frobe, Frode, froi, frole, frone, frope, froren, frou, frove, Frowe, Fuer, Fuhri, fuori, fura, fure, furet, furi, furre, furrel, Fwoar, fworr, fyre, ofire, Ofpra, Ofra, ofre, ofro, Uforb, vore. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: froe.

-1 letter: fer, foe, for, fro, ore, ref, roe.

-2 letters: ef, er, oe, of, or, re.

+1 letter: afore, fetor, force, fores, forge, forme, forte, foyer, froes, frore, froze, gofer, offer, ofter.

+2 letters: before, coffer, confer, deform, doffer, effort, fedora, femora, fervor, fetors, flexor, florae, floret, flower, foamer, fodder, foetor, fogger, folder, fonder, footer, forage, forbye, forced, forcer, forces, forded, foreby, foredo, forego, forest, forged, forger, forges, forget, forked, forker, formed, formee, former, formes, fortes, foster, fouler, fowler, foxier, foyers, fozier, fresco, frozen, furore, gofers, goffer, golfer, hereof, hoofer, loafer, lofter, offers, reflow, refold, reform, reroof, rolfed, rolfer, roofed, roofer, softer, twofer, wolfer, woofer.