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Ford Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Ford?
[n] the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse
[n] a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [n] American manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947) [n] 38th President of the United States; appointed Vice President and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-) [n] English writer and editor (1873-1939) [n] son of Henry Ford (1893-1943) [n] grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987) [n] United States film maker (1896-1973) [v] cross a river where it's shallow Synonyms | Synonyms for Ford: crossing | Edsel Bryant Ford | Ford Hermann Hueffer | Ford Madox Ford | fording | Gerald Ford | Gerald R. Ford | Gerald Rudolph Ford | Henry Ford | Henry Ford II | John Ford | President Ford Related Terms | Find terms related to Ford: access | aisle | alley | ambulatory | aperture | arcade | artery | avenue | bank | bar | bestride | bypass | channel | cloister | colonnade | communication | conduit | connection | coral reef | corridor | covered way | cross | defile | exit | ferry | flat | gallery | get ahead of | go across | go by | inlet | interchange | intersection | junction | lane | opening | outlet | overpass | overstride | pass | pass by | pass over | passage | passageway | portico | railroad tunnel | reef | sandbank | sandbar | shallow | shallows | shelf | shoal | shoal water | shoot ahead of | step over | straddle | tidal flats | traject | trajet | tunnel | underpass | wetlands See Also | author | body of water | Chief Executive | cover | cross | crossing | cut across | cut through | deep fording | film maker | film producer | filmmaker | get across | get over | industrialist | movie maker | pass over | President | President of the United States | shallow fording | stream | track | traverse | water | watercourse | writer Ford In Webster's Dictionary \Ford\ (f[=o]rd), n. [AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel.
fj["o]r[eth]r bay, and to E. fare. [root] 78. See {Fare}, v.
i., and cf. {Frith} arm of the sea.]
1. A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed
by man or beast on foot, by wading.
He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
--Sir W.
Scott.
2. A stream; a current.
With water of the ford Or of the clouds. --Spenser.
Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford. --Dryden.
\Ford\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fording}.] To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through. His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted. --Milton. |
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