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[fawr, fohr]

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adjective

situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.

first in place, time, order, rank, etc.; forward; earlier.

Nautical.

of or pertaining to a foremast.

noting a sail, yard, boom, etc., or any rigging belonging to a fore lower mast or to some upper mast of a foremast.

noting any stay running aft and upward to the head of a fore lower mast or to some specified upper mast of a foremast: fore topmast stay.

situated at or toward the bow of a vessel; forward.

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adverb

Nautical. at or toward the bow.

forward.

Obsolete. before.

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noun

the forepart of anything; front.

the fore, Nautical. the foremast.

preposition, conjunction

Also, 'fore. Informal. before.

Idioms

10.

fore and aft, Nautical. in, at, or to both ends of a ship.

11.

to the fore,

into a conspicuous place or position; to or at the front.

at hand; ready; available.

still alive.

Origin:
by construal of fore- as an adj., hence nominalized; fore and aft perhaps as translation of Dutch or Low German; sense “before” (defs. 6, 9) perhaps continuation of Middle English, Old English fore in this sense, or as aphetic form of afore

Example Sentences

The existence of the football team comes to the fore at two junctures in the history of a college.

But nascent nationalism has now returned to the fore.

And one other interesting bit of anatomy about this new animal is its limbs, its fore and hind limbs.

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The existence of the football team comes to the fore at two junctures in the history of a college.

But nascent nationalism has now returned to the fore.

And one other interesting bit of anatomy about this new animal is its limbs, its fore and hind limbs.

Fore more information, contact the event organizers.

Now that the communist government is loosening its policies, ancient village rituals and alliances are returning to the fore.

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

The growing clout of the old helps explain the way some issues have come to the fore recently.

Plus it`s potency does not degrade over time, there fore it provides lasting protection from reinfection.

One tips the crab side to side with the center legs while the other two control the fore and aft legs.

Several factors have brought the question of overseas aid to the fore.

These questions cry out for research, but unfortunately politics has come to the fore.

The crisis will bring this problem more urgently to the fore.

America's health-care system is once again pushing itself to the fore of politics.

Most probably it was a mixture of the fore mentioned arguments.

Making hard choices is all but impossible when political gamesmanship is at the fore.

Not long ago the animal injured one of its fore feet by becoming entangled.

The bitter issues at the heart of a decade of violence and political strife once again came to the fore.

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

The horse pinned him against the side of the stall and struck at him with his fore feet.

Grad students feel they must keep themselves at the fore of their professors' minds.

But no sooner had its leaders signed up than new ones came to the fore who rejected the amnesty.

We see sharks on every dive, shallow or deep, on the fore reef or in the lagoon.

But the finding brings to the fore another question: the so-called cosmological coincidence.

The peace prize has pushed the issue back to the fore.

Instead, it is their vulnerability that often comes to the fore.

The anaesthetic drugs specified are going out of fashion and there fore becoming in short supply.

Only then do the less technical matters come to the fore.

But, in the aftermath of her death, they came to the fore.

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

It is still possible that a candidate with a less chequered record on all these issues will come to the fore.

He'll get up on the post and crow as the marvelous sunrise technologies come blindingly to the fore during his administration.

Paradoxically, then, youth is coming to the fore in the workplace at the same time as the workforce is greying.

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

In short, the crisis has brought to the fore the complex connections among markets, government and social and economic policies.

He has trained cat, and leaves it to a friend, with instructions as to fitting a pen to its right fore paw by means of a harness.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

interjection Golf.

(used as a cry of warning to persons on a course who are in danger of being struck by the ball.)

Origin:
1875–80; probably aphetic variant of before

a prefix meaning “before” (in space, time, condition, etc.), “front,” “superior,” etc.: forehead; forecastle; forecast; foretell; foreman.

Origin:
combining form representing Middle English, Old English for(e)

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World English Dictionary

fore¹ (fɔː)

—*adj*
1.	(usually in combination) located at, in, or towards the front: the forelegs of a horse

—n
2.	the front part
3.	something located at, in, or towards the front
4.	short for foremast
5.	fore and aft located at or directed towards both ends of a vessel: a fore-and-aft rig
6.	to the fore
	a. to or into the front or conspicuous position
	b. (Scot), (Irish) alive or active: is your grandfather still to the fore?

—*adv*
7.	at or towards a ship's bow
8.	obsolete before

—*prep, —conj*
9.	a less common word for before

[Old English; related to Old Saxon, Old High German fora, Gothic faura, Greek para, Sanskrit pura]

fore² (fɔː)

—*interj*
	(in golf) a warning shout made by a player about to make a shot

[C19: probably short for before]

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Word Origin & History

fore

O.E. fore (prep.) "before, in front of;" (adv.) "before, previously," common Gmc. (cf. O.H.G. fora, O.Fris. fara, Ger. vor, Goth. faiura, O.N. fyrr "for"); from PIE *per-/*pr- (cf. Skt. pura "before, formerly;" Avestan paro "before;" Hittite para- "on, forth;" Gk. paros "before," para "from beside, beyond,"

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peri "around, about, toward," pro "before;" L. pro "before, for, on behalf of, instead of," prae "before," per "through, for;" O.C.S. pra-dedu "great-grandfather"). The warning cry in golf is first recorded 1878, probably a contraction of before.

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Idioms & Phrases

fore

In addition to the idioms beginning with fore, also see to the fore.

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