different between ford vs chevy

English

Alternative forms

• foorth (obsolete, [14th century])

Etymology

From Middle English ford, from Old English ford, from Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

Cognate with firth and fjord (via Old Norse), Low German Föörd, Dutch voord, German Furt, Norwegian and Danish fjord, and more distantly with English port (via Latin). See also forth and Persian ???.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

ford (plural fords)

1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
2. A stream; a current.
   • Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ford (third-person singular simple present fords, present participle fording, simple past and past participle forded)

1. To cross a stream using a ford.
   • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 31-2, [1]

     Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.

   • 1982, Nadine Gordimer, "A Hunting Accident" in A Soldier's Embrace, Penguin, p. 59,

     Ratau drove with reckless authority through the quiet morning fires of his father's and forefathers' town and forded a river of goats on the road leading out of it.

   • 2016, Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd, "EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2016" in earthsky.org, [2]

     Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dorf

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *furdu, from Proto-Germanic *furduz (“ford”). Cognate with Old Frisian ford, Old Saxon ford, Old Dutch ford, Old High German furt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ford/, [for?d]

Noun

ford m

1. ford

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ford, furd, foord
  • English: ford
  • Scots: furde, furd, fuird

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rd/

Noun

ford

1. Soft mutation of bord.

Mutation

English

Etymology

The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?t??vi/
• Rhymes: -?vi
• Hyphenation: che?vy

Noun

chevy (countable and uncountable, plural chevies)

1. (countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
2. (countable) A cry used in hunting.
3. (uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.

Alternative forms

• chivy
• chivey

Translations

Verb

chevy (third-person singular simple present chevies, present participle chevying, simple past and past participle chevied)

1. (transitive) To chase or hunt.
2. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
3. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
4. (transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy
5. (intransitive) To scurry.

   Synonym: scamper

Alternative forms

• chivy

Translations

See also

• Chevrolet

References