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[aft, ahft]

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adverb

at, close to, or toward the stern or tail: Stow the luggage aft.

adjective

situated toward or at the stern or tail: The aft sail was luffing.

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Origin:
before 950; Middle English afte, Old English æftan from behind, equivalent to æf- opposite + -t- suffix of uncertain value + -an suffix marking motion from; cognate with Old Frisian efta, Old Saxon, Old High German aftan, Gothic aftana, Old Norse aptan, Greek opís(s)ō behind; not akin to Greek apó off

Example Sentences

He opened the aft emergency door, lowered the stairs and walked down to the tarmac to see if the cargo doors were shut.

When the electrical harnesses came to be fitted in the forward and aft fuselage sections, many didn't connect with each other.

T7 to rate their knowledge of key concept vocabulary before and aft er they read the story.

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He opened the aft emergency door, lowered the stairs and walked down to the tarmac to see if the cargo doors were shut.

When the electrical harnesses came to be fitted in the forward and aft fuselage sections, many didn't connect with each other.

T7 to rate their knowledge of key concept vocabulary before and aft er they read the story.

Piasecki went on to create the workhorses of the cargo helicopter fleet, innovating the fore and aft rotor.

Having spent a few years up forward and now being condemned down aft again, it is an interesting comparison.

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Airbus said that to avoid any interference, the lightning conductor would be moved further aft.

Its reflection created a path of light on the calm waters that led to the aft working deck.

Crew members fore and aft managed to maneuver their still-lighter-than-air sections to the ground, and survived.

Fire broke out at the aft end of the flight deck as the ship was preparing to launch the second strike of the day.

Water cannons bristle off the bow and the aft helicopter deck.

It's as if the designers ran out of ideas once they got aft of the doors.

Hammerschmidt said that a fire began in the aft section of the plane's fuselage and spread slowly forward.

As the sub backed away, a trigger cord detonated the torpedo, blowing off the entire aft quarter of the ship.

The bulge at the aft end of the fuselage can be seen in the pictures.

The instrument cluster slides fore and aft to accommodate a range of driver-seat positions.

One by one, the crew drops through hatches fore and aft.

And when the three-chimed whistle on the aft end of the third stack blew, he put his hands over his ears.

The chop in the water causes the boat to pitch fore and aft.

And the watchman, another sailor, had been sent aft to help prepare the tanker to take a harbor pilot on board.

It was war in which one hand rarely knew what the other was doing and carefully planned offensives ganged aft agley.

The images being studied by investigators so far have not revealed the aft section of the plane.

She has parted clean in two from the funnel forward, while aft the funnel there is another.

It has four large aft engines and a series of smaller thrusters for maneuvering and fine control.

The minuscule galley was really the aft part of the saloon, separated only by a counter.

Its cargo was stacked high on its aft deck and under tarps.

On the floor of the aft cabin is a thin foam sleeping pad.

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aft (ɑːft)

—*adv, —adj*
	chiefly nautical towards or at the stern or rear: the aft deck; aft of the engines

[C17: perhaps a shortened form of earlier abaft]

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Word Origin & History

aft

O.E. æftan "behind, farthest back," from superl. of O.E. æf, af, of "off," from P.Gmc. *af-, from PIE root *apo- "off, away" (cf. Goth. aftana "from behind;" see apo-). Now purely nautical.

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"He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach."

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