different between forehead vs fore

English

Etymology

From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English f?reh?afod, foranh?afod (“forehead”), corresponding to fore- +? head. Cognate withScots foreheid (“forehead”),Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).

Alternative forms

• for'ead, forrad, forread, forred, forrid (variable or uncertain spellings representing dialect or variant pronunciation)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??h?d/, /?f????d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???h?d/

Noun

forehead (countable and uncountable, plural foreheads)

1. (countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan

     'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
2. (uncountable) confidence; audacity
3. The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

Synonyms

• brow

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: four, for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology

A development of the prefix fore-.

Adjective

fore (comparative former, superlative foremost)

1. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. [15th-18th c.]

2. Forward; situated towards the front (of something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 23:

     Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […]

Antonyms

• (order): latter
• (location): aft

Translations

Interjection

fore

1. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

Translations

Noun

fore (uncountable)

1. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
   • 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas:

     People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.

Related terms

• fore-and-aft
• foremost
• forehead

Translations

Adverb

fore (not comparable)

1. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
2. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
3. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.

Anagrams

• Freo, OFer, froe, o-fer, ofer, orfe

Cornish

Noun

fore

1. Mixed mutation of bore.

Esperanto

Etymology

for +? -e

Adverb

fore

1. far away

French

Verb

fore

1. first-person singular present indicative of forer
2. third-person singular present indicative of forer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of forer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of forer
5. second-person singular imperative of forer

Ido

Etymology

for +? -e

Adverb

fore

1. (far) away, afar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.re/, [?f???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.re/, [?f????]

Etymology 1

See foris.

Noun

fore

1. ablative singular of foris

Etymology 2

Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fu? (“I have been”), irregular perfect indicative of sum (“I am”). From Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to become, be”), cognate with Old English b?o (“I become, I will be, I am”). In classical Latin, the fu- forms of sum are mostly limited to the perfect tenses, but old Latin has alternate present and imperfect subjunctive forms fuam and forem (for classical sim and essem) suggesting the root could once be fully conjugated. After being incorporated in the conjugation of sum, the meaning of fore shifted from the original "to become" to the classical "to be going to be".

Alternative forms

• fut?rus esse

Verb

fore

1. future active infinitive of sum

Usage notes

• Also used in the construction fore ut in place of a future passive infinitive in indirect discourse:

References

• fore in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fore in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fore in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fore in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

fore

1. fore

Descendants

• Scots: fore
• English: fore

Numeral

fore

1. four

Conjunction

fore

1. therefore

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• fóre

Noun

fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)

1. behaviour
2. footprints, tracks
3. (economics) ability, standing

Etymology 2

Derived from for (“travel”), from Old Norse f?r, but made a weak noun. From earlier Proto-Germanic *far?.

Alternative forms

• fòre

Noun

fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)

1. alternative form of for

Etymology 3

From fòr (“furrow”).

Alternative forms

• fora, fòra, fòre

Verb

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative for)

1. to furrow

Etymology 4

Inherited from Old Norse fóðra.

Alternative forms

• fora, fôra, fôre

Verb

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative for)

1. to fodder animals
   1. to breed, raise
2. to gather food, fodder
3. to feed

Related terms

• fôr n (“fodder”)

Etymology 5

Made from fôr (“lining of clothes”)

Alternative forms

• fora, fôra, fôre

Verb

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative for)

1. (transitive) to line (clothes)
2. (transitive) to clad with covering layers

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

fore

1. inflection of for:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “fore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

fore

1. past subjunctive of fara

Anagrams

• efor

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?v?r?/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?v?ra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?vo?r?/, /?v?r?/

Noun

fore

1. Soft mutation of bore (“morning”).

Mutation