fore
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- adverb
- /fɔr/
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hacia proa
- The crew worked diligently on the deck fore of the ship, preparing for the journey ahead.
- fore and aft
- move fore
- slide fore
Examples
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I'm glad that Lenin, in the book published by Sheryl Sandberg, did bring to the fore the reality that women were not progressing at the same rate as men.
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As the ship sailed into the storm, the captain ordered everyone to move fore to secure the cargo.
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But it brings, I think, to the fore, you know, what politics and, and what everything that we're trying to do is about.
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I think it's just as these things have become far more obviously to the fore, there are more attempts.
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And actually as new technologies and and new ideas come to the fore, we'll debate those as well.
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It brought ideas to the fore that it just never had enough play or much play, although the ideas were ancient.
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So the second-half of his professional career brings another quality of mind to the fore, and that is behavior under fire.
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And he rose in power, of course, as the emancipation issue rose to the fore, as did Stevens.
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There's this tension that has come to the fore between personal choice and bodily autonomy and public health.
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Here's another set of very important concerns that we've mentioned a little bit earlier, but now are brought to the fore in these two tweets.
Synonyms
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In front or moving forward to make progress
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At a place ahead of someone or something
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In the direction someone faces or moves
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In front of people or things
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Directly in front of you
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From the side that faces another person or thing
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Towards the front or a place ahead
Toward the front of something
To move toward the front
Facing forward so the front part points ahead
Toward the front
Toward the head or front of something
Antonyms
Compounds
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The outer edge of a book's pages opposite the spine when the book is closed
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A long hand tool with a blade used to flatten rough boards before final smoothing
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A triangular sail set just in front of the foremast on a large sailing ship
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One of the front pair of thin parts an insect uses to fly when it has four wings
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A triangular sail fixed to a horizontal pole near the top of a mast to catch wind
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A small triangular sail set just ahead of the front mast on a large sailing ship
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fore comes from an old English word meaning 'before' or 'front', and it appears in words like foremost and forefront. As an adverb, fore means 'toward the front', so to go fore on a ship is to move toward the bow.