Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 50
Foreby (prep.) Near; hard by; along; past. See {Forby}. -- Spenser.
Forecast (v. t.) 預測，預報 [+（that）] [+wh-]；預示；預言 To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. -- Dan. xi. 24.
Forecast (v. t.) To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for.
It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. -- L'Estrange.
Forecast (v. i.) 作預測，進行預報 To contrive or plan beforehand.
If it happen as I did forecast. -- Milton.
Forecast (n.) 預言；預測；預報 A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop [syn: {prognosis}, {forecast}].
Forecast (v.) Predict in advance [syn: {forecast}, {calculate}].
Forecast (v.) Judge to be probable [syn: {calculate}, {estimate}, {reckon}, {count on}, {figure}, {forecast}].
Forecast (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Forecast (n.) Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.
He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. -- Addison.
Forecast (n.) A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast.
His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. -- Prescott.
Forecast (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation.
Forecast (n.) [ C ] (B1) （尤指對特定形勢或天氣的）預測，預報 A statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation, or the expected weather conditions.
// Economic forecasts.
// The weather forecast said it was going to rain later today.
Forecast (v.) [ T ] (forecast or forecasted, forecast or forecasted) 預測；預報 To say what you expect to happen in the future.
// They forecast a large drop in unemployment over the next two years.
// Snow has been forecast for tonight.
// [ + to infinitive ] Oil prices are forecast to increase by less than two percent this year.
Forecaster (n.) 預測者，推測者 One who forecast. -- Johnson.
Forecaster (n.) Someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) [syn: {forecaster}, {predictor}, {prognosticator}, {soothsayer}].
Forecastle (n.) (Naut.) 【船】艏樓；前部的水A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
Forecastle (n.) That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.
Forecastle (n.) In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live.
Forecastle (n.) Living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed [syn: forecastle, fo'c'sle].
Forechosen (a.) Chosen beforehand.
Forecited (a.) Cited or quoted before or above. -- Arbuthnot.
Foreclosed (imp. & p. p.) of Foreclose
Foreclosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreclose
Foreclose (v. t.) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. -- Carew.
To foreclose a mortgager (Law), To cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption.
To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) The obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. -- Wharton.
Foreclose (v.) Keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid].
Foreclose (v.) Subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage.
Foreclosure (n.) The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
Foreclosure (n.) The legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default.
Foreclosure, () practice. A proceeding in chancery, by which the mortgagor's right of redemption of the mortgaged premises is barred or foreclosed forever.
Foreclosure, () This takes place when the mortgagor has forfeited his estate by non-payment of the money due on the mortgage at the time appointed, but still retains the equity of redemption; in such case the mortgagee may file a bill, calling on the mortgagor, in a court of equity, to redeem his estate presently, or in default thereof, to be forever closed or barred from any right of redemption.
Foreclosure, () In some cases, however, the mortgagee obtains a decree for a sale of the land, under the direction of an officer of the court, in which case the proceeds are applied to the discharge of encumbrances, according to their priority. This practice has been adopted in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. 4 Kent, Com., 180. When it is the practice to foreclose without a sale, its severity is mitigated by enlarging the time of redemption from six months to six months, or for shorter periods, according to the equity arising from the circumstances. Id. Vide 2 John. Ch. R, 100; 6 Pick. R. 418; 1 Sumn. R. 401; 7 Conn. R. 152; 5 N; H. Rep. 30; 1 Hayw. R. 482; 5 Han. R. 554; 5 Yerg. 240; 2 Pick. R. 40; 4 Pick. R. 6; 2 Gallis. 154; 9 Cowen's R. 346; 4 Greenl. R. 495; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Foreconceive (v. t.) To preconceive; to imagine beforehand. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Foredate (v. t.) To date before the true time; to antendate.
Foredate (v.) Establish something as being earlier relative to something else [syn: predate, antedate, foredate] [ant: postdate].
Foredeck (n.) (Naut.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.
Foredeck (n.) The deck between the bridge and the forecastle.
Foredeem (v. t.) To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] -- Udall.
Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. -- J. Webster.
Foredeem (v. i.) To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.]
Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. -- Genevan Test.
Foredesign (v. t.) To plan beforehand; to intend previously. -- Cheyne.
Foredetermine (v. t.) To determine or decree beforehand. -- Bp. Hopkins.
Foredispose (v. t.) To bestow beforehand. [R.]
King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. -- Fuller.
Foredoom (v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state. -- Dryden.
Foredoom (n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." -- Southey.
Foredoom (v.) Doom beforehand.
Forefather (n.) 祖先，祖宗；前輩 [P1] One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. -- Burke.
Forefathers' Day, The anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.
Forefather (n.) The founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers" [syn: forefather, father, sire].
Forefather (n.) Person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group; "our forefathers brought forth a great nation".
Forefeel (v. t.) To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.]
As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. -- Chapman.
Forefence (n.) Defense in front. [Obs.]
Forefend (v. t.) To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history. -- Landor.
It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty. -- I. Taylor.
Forefend (v.) Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off].
Forefinger (n.) The finger next to the thumb; the index finger.
Forefinger (n.) The finger next to the thumb [syn: index, index finger, forefinger].
Foreigner (n.) The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.
Foreflow (v. t.) To flow before. [Obs.]
Forefoot (n.) One of the anterior feet of a quardruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.
Forefoot (n.) (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
Forefoot (n.) A front foot of a quadruped.
Forefront (n.) Foremost part or place.
Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. -- 2 Sam. xi. 15.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. -- J. C. Shairp.
Forefront (n.) The part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn: forefront, head].
Forefront (n.) The position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field; "the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England"; "the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy" [syn: vanguard, forefront, cutting edge].
Foregame (n.) A first game; first plan. [Obs.] -- Whitlock.
Foreganger (n.) (Naut.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer line may be attached. -- Totten.
Foregather (v. i.) Same as Forgather.
Foregather (v.) Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather].
Foregift (n.) (Law) A premium paid by a lessee when taking his lease.
Foregleam (n.) An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light.
The foregleams of wisdom. -- Whittier.
Forewent 2 (imp.) of Forego
Foregone (p. p.) of Forego
Foregoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forego
Forego (v. t.) To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. -- Herbert.
Forego (v. t.) To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.
All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego. -- Milton.
Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. -- Keble.
[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. -- R. L. Stevenson.
Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the word has been confused with Forego, to go before.
Forego (v. t.) To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.
Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone. -- Wordsworth.
For which the very mother's face forewent The mother's special patience. -- Mrs. Browning.
Foregone conclusion, A conclusion which has preceded argument or examination; a predetermined conclusion.
Forego (v.) Be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate] [ant: follow, postdate].
Forego (v.) Do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense with].
Forego (v.) Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" [syn: forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego] [ant: arrogate, claim, lay claim].
Foregoer (n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.
Foregoer (n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]
Foregoer (n.) One who forbears to enjoy.
Foreground (n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
Foreground (n.) The part of a scene that is near the viewer.
Foreground (n.) (Computer science) a window for an active application.
Foreground (v.) Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics" [syn: foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up] [ant: background, downplay, play down].
Foreground (v. t.) [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks. ?If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document.?
Technically, on a timesharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user; oppose background. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window); having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is a good way to lose.
Foreground, (Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the background.
Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/ 360.
Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window). Having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is confusing. [{Jargon File] (1994-10-24)
Foreguess (v. t.) To conjecture. [Obs.]
Foregut (n.) (Anat.) The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, or to the entrance of the bile duct.
Forehand (n.) All that part of a horse which is before the rider. -- Johnson.
Forehand (n.) The chief or most important part. -- Shak.
Forehand (n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
And, but for ceremony, such a wretch . . . Had the forehand and vantage of a king. -- Shak.
Forehand (a.) Done beforehand; anticipative.
And so extenuate the forehand sin. -- Shak.
Forehand (a.) (Of racket strokes) Made with palm facing direction of stroke [syn: forehand(a), forehanded] [ant: backhand(a), backhanded].
Forehand (n.) (Sports) A return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) [syn: forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot].
Forehanded (a.) Early; timely; seasonable. "Forehanded care." -- Jer. Taylor.
Forehanded (a.) Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded farmer. [U.S.]
Forehanded (a.) Formed in the forehand or fore parts.
A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded. -- Dryden.
Forehanded (a.) (Of racket strokes) Made with palm facing direction of stroke [syn: forehand(a), forehanded] [ant: backhand(a), backhanded].
Forehanded (a.) Having provided for the future.
Forehead (n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
Forehead (n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.
To look with forehead bold and big enough Upon the power and puissance of the king. -- Shak.
Forehead (n.) The front or fore part of anything.
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. -- Milton.
So rich advantage of a promised glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action. -- Shak.
Forehead (n.) The part of the face above the eyes [syn: brow, forehead].
Forehead (n.) The large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits [syn: frontal bone, os frontale, forehead].
Forehead, () The practice common among Oriental nations of colouring the forehead or impressing on it some distinctive mark as a sign of devotion to some deity is alluded to in Rev. 13:16, 17; 14:9; 17:5; 20:4.
The "jewel on thy forehead" mentioned in Ezek. 16:12 (R.V., "a ring upon thy nose") was in all probability the "nose-ring" (Isa. 3:21).
In Ezek. 3:7 the word "impudent" is rightly rendered in the Revised Version "an hard forehead." (See also ver. 8, 9.)
Forehear (v. i. & t.) To hear beforehand.
Forehearth (n.) (Metal.) The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
Forehend (v. t.) See Forhend. [Obs.]
Forehew (v. t.) To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] -- Sackville.
Forehold (n.) (Naut.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.
Foreholding (n.) Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange.
Forehook (n.) (Naut.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
Foreign (a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." -- Milton.
Foreign (a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." -- Atterbury.
Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. -- Milton.
Foreign (a.) Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. -- Swift.
Foreign (a.) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. -- Shak.
Foreign attachment (Law), A process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. -- Kent. -- Tomlins. -- Cowell.
Foreign bill, A bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. -- Kent. -- Story.
Foreign body (Med.), A substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without.
Foreign office, That department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.
Syn: Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous; extrinsic.
Foreign (a.) Of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office" [ant: domestic].
Foreign (a.) Relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city" [syn: foreign, strange] [ant: native].
Foreign (a.) Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: alien, foreign].
Foreign (a.) Not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous, foreign].
Foreign, () That which belongs to another country; that which is strange. 1 Peters, R. 343.
Foreign, () Every nation is foreign to all the rest, and the several states of the American Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their municipal laws. 2 Wash. R. 282; 4 Conn. 517; 6 Conn. 480; 2 Wend. 411 1 Dall. 458, 463 6 Binn. 321; 12 S. & R. 203; 2 Hill R. 319 1 D. Chipm. 303 7 Monroe, 585 5 Leigh, 471; 3 Pick. 293.
Foreign, () But the reciprocal relations between the national government and the several states composing the United States are not considered as foreign, but domestic. 9 Pet. 607; 5 Pet. 398; 6 Pet. 317; 4 Cranch, 384; 4 Gill & John. 1, 63. Vide Attachment, for foreign attachment; Bill of exchange, for foreign bills of exchange; Foreign Coins; Foreign Judgment; Foreign Laws; Foreigners.
Foreigner (n.) A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. -- Denham.
Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. -- Swift.
Foreigner (n.) A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander] [ant: citizen].
Foreigner (n.) Someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group [syn: foreigner, outsider].
Foreigner, () A Gentile. Such as resided among the Hebrews were required by the law to be treated with kindness (Ex. 22:21; 23:9; Lev.19:33, 34; 23:22; Deut. 14:28; 16:10, 11; 24:19). They enjoyed in many things equal rights with the native-born residents (Ex. 12:49; Lev. 24:22; Num. 15:15; 35:15), but were not allowed to do anything which was an abomination according to the Jewish law (Ex. 20:10; Lev. 17:15,16; 18:26; 20:2; 24:16, etc.).
Foreignism (n.) Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. -- Fitzed. Hall.
Foreignness (n.) The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.
Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. -- Locke.
A foreignness of complexion. -- G. Eliot.
Foreignness (n.) The quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness].
Forein (a.) Foreign. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Forejudge (v. t.) To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
Forejudge (v. t.) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. -- Burrill.
Forejudger (n.) (Eng. Law)
A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
Forejudgment (n.) Prejudgment. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Foreknew (imp.) of Foreknow
Foreknown (p. p.) of Foreknow
Foreknowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foreknow
Foreknow (v. t.) To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
Who would the miseries of man foreknow? -- Dryden.
Foreknow (v.) Realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse, foreknow, foresee].
Foreknowa-ble (a.) That may be foreknown. -- Dr. H. More.
Foreknower (n.) One who foreknows.
Foreknowingly (adv.) With foreknowledge.
He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. -- Jer. Taylor.
Foreknowledge (n.) Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. -- Milton.
Foreknowledge (n.) Knowledge of an event before it occurs [syn: precognition, foreknowledge].
Forel (n.) A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.
Forel (v. t.) To bind with a forel. [R.] -- Fuller.
Foreland (n.) A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
Foreland (n.) (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. -- Farrow.
Foreland (n.) (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. -- Knight.
Foreland (n.) A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland].
Foreland (n.) Land forming the forward margin of something.
Forelay (v. t.) To lay down beforehand.
These grounds being forelaid and understood. -- Mede.
Forelay (v. t.) To waylay. See Forlay. [Obs.]
Foreleader (n.) One who leads others by his example; a guide.
Forelend (v. t.) See Forlend.
[Obs.]
As if that life to losse they had forelent. -- Spenser.
Forelet (v. t.) See Forlet. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Forelie (v. i.) To lie in front of. [Obs.]
Which forelay Athwart her snowy breast. -- Spenser.