noun
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The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
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The fore was painted white.
adjective
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Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
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the fore part of the day
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Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
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the fore end of a wagon
adverb
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In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
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Formerly; previously; afore.
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In or towards the bows of a ship.
interjection
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An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
Examples of fore in a Sentence
The hair in front is combed down over the fore.
Fore feet with five sub-equal toes, with compressed, slightly curved pointed claws.
In North America Mylodon was accompanied by another gigantic species typifying the genus Megalonyx, in which the fore part of the skull was usually wide, and the third and fourth front toes carried claws.
The feet are small, each with five claws, those of the fore feet strongest, and fitted for scratching and digging.
In the township there are several villages, including Weymouth, North Weymouth, East Weymouth and South Weymouth, and the smaller villages of Weymouth Centre, Weymouth Heights, Lovell's Corner, Nash's Corner and Old Spain, and there are also four islands, Round, Grape, Slate and Sheep. The mainland itself is largely a peninsula lying between the Weymouth Fore river and the Weymouth Back river, to the west and east respectively.
Rapid progression is, however, performed only by the powerful hind-limbs, the animals covering the ground by a series of immense bounds, during which the fore part of the body is inclined forwards, and balanced by the long, strong and tapering tail, which is carried horizontally backwards.
These models flew in a haphazard sort of a way, it being found exceedingly difficult to confer on them the necessary degree of stability fore and aft and laterally.
The piano concerto was played with similar virtues to the fore.
I have heard you say that the French courtiers Wear their hats on ' fore that king.
At a trial carried out in 1894 at Bexley, Kent, only the main aeroplane, the fore and aft rudders, and the top and bottom side planes were in position.
In size it resembles the striped hyena, but differs in appearance, owing to the fringe of long hair covering the neck and fore part of the back.
He took a leading part in ventilating the Bulgarian and Armenian "atrocities," and his combative personality was constantly to the fore in support of the campaigns of Gladstonian Liberalism.
Now if this state be supposed established in a frictionless fluid, the con sideration of internal friction would simply extend the char acteristics found at any spot to the neighbourhood, and there fore if the boundary were a sphere and so for a frictionless fluid an exception, it would cease to be an exception when we allow for viscosity.
The hopper is carried on two knife - edges, one on each side, and is prevented from tipping over fore and aft by a pair of parallel motion bars on each side.
Engines, and iron and steel ships are built at a shipyard 2 on the Fore river, and tubular rivets and studs, gearing, foundry products, and translucent fabrics are among the city's other products.
Hismistresses were not the only cause of this; for ever since Fleurys advent political parties had come to the fore.
The metapodals and phalanges resemble very closely those of the fore limb, but the principal metatarsal is more laterally compressed at its upper end than is the corresponding metacarpal.
The bones and joints of the foot have the same names as in the fore limb.
Below the carpal and tarsal joints, the fore and hind limbs correspond almost exactly in structure as well as function.
In some vessels both fore and aft holds and 'tween decks are insulated.
There are, however, several forms which it is reasonable to include in the Araucarieae; that this family was to the fore in the vegetation of the Jurassic period is unquestionable.
Other newts, and many salamanders, whether terrestrial or aquatic, pair, the male embracing the female about the fore limbs or in the pelvic region, and the males of such forms are invariably devoid of ornamental secondary sexual characters; but in spite of this amplexation the same mode of fecundation by means of a spermatophore is resorted to, although it may happen that the contents of the spermatophore are absorbed direct from the cloaca of the male.
He claimed to have re - pelled the outflanking movement of the French in the battle of the Marne, but he was nevertheless compelled, in consequence of the faulty disposition of the German forces in the line of battle and the success of the Allied offensive, to withdraw his army be - fore what he described as overwhelming odds to the Aisne posi - tions.
The orbit is surrounded by a bony ring; the ulna and radius in the fore, and the tibia and fibula in the hind-limb are united, and the feet are of the types described above.
Food miles have been under the spotlight recently as environmental concerns come to the fore.
This case had fore and hind limb ataxia but normal cranial nerve function.
A program from the Fore meeting is signed by Joey Dunlop in blue biro.
This derrick is also used for putting out the fore bunt sections of the bobbins.
She was converted to hold 68 beds, although in non-epidemic times, her fore cabin was used by staff and visitors.
Public movements are always cyclical, reacting to threats, dangers and opportunities as they come to the fore.
And whenever things threaten to disappear up their own fundament, director Michael Cabot skilfully nudges humor into the fore.
But while Henry dominated the early part of our innings, the skipper came to the fore in the latter half.
All hands took their turn at the pumps, alternately bailing at the fore hatchway.
Left hind, left fore, followed by right hind then right fore.
They each stand on a strange creature, which partly resembles a serpent and partly a crocodile, but has only fore legs.
Their fore limbs are short but strong with nimble fingers.
Here Halsey's own perspective, of what I take to be a postmodern relativism, comes to the fore.
This became the fore runner of the hack used in the modern game.
Anne of Cleves, the tearoom on Fore Street, makes a fine cream tea with homemade scones a specialty.
Day two Clyde-built ships plied the seaways between Britain and North America, moving people and goods back and fore.
Fore cabin has a super ser catalytic cabin heater, a dinette with table top dropping down to make a double bed.
This is when the strength of multi-disciplinary teamwork comes to the fore as well.
High Street and Fore Street formed a wide spinal thoroughfare where the markets were held.
In some cases the ship should be helped round by slacking away on the after warp whilst heaving on the fore warp.
Among day-flying Lepidoptera, the more gaudy colors are usually on the fore wings.
As is generally the case with low budget zombie films plot detail is not at the fore.
Hagenbeck's estimate of its age was based on the presence of well-developed tusks, and the relative proportion of the fore and hind limbs, which are stated to show considerable differences in the case of the African elephant according to age.
The flying species are also distinguished from ordinary flyingsquirrels by the circumstance that the additional bone serving for the support of the fore part of the flying-membrane rises Pigmy African Flying-Squirrel (Idiurus zenkeri).
The stock of the anchor rests on the cat-head when hung outside the ship. The name is also used of a type of a vessel, now obsolete, and formerly used in the coal and timber trade on the north-east coast of England; it had a deep waist and narrow stem; it is still applied to a small rig of sailing boats, with a single mast stepped far forward, with a fore and aft sail.
Nearly allied is the Australian family Dasyuridae, characterized by the presence of only four pairs of upper incisors, the generally small and rudimentary condition of the first hind toe, which can but seldom be opposed to the rest, and the absence of prehensile power in the tail; the pouch being either present or absent, and the fore feet always five-toed.