First vs Fore - What's the difference?
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Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
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, title= Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
* 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. ,
Before anything else; firstly.
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, title= (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
* 1699 , ,
(uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
(countable, baseball) first base
(countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
(countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
A fraction of an integer ending in one.
(obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
(golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
* 2002 , Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas :
In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
(obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
(fare)
Fore is a synonym of first.
In obsolete terms the difference between first and fore
is that first is time; time granted; respite while fore is formerly; previously; afore.As adjectives the difference between first and fore
is that first is preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest while fore is former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.As adverbs the difference between first and fore
is that first is before anything else; firstly while fore is in the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.As nouns the difference between first and fore
is that first is the person or thing in the first position while fore is the front; the forward part of something; the foreground.As an interjection fore is
an exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.As a verb fore is
simple past of fare.As a proper noun Fore is
a people of Papua New Guinea.first
English
(wikipedia first)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* firste (archaic) * fyrst (obsolete) * fyrste (obsolete)Adjective
(-)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
Alternative forms
* ; (in names of monarchs and popes) IAdverb
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}
Noun
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
Derived terms
* feet first * firstborn * first-class * first gear * first imperative (Latin grammar) * first of all * first place * first things first * first upSee also
* primaryEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l).Statistics
*fore
English
Etymology 1
A development of the prefix .Adjective
- the fore part of the day
- the fore end of a wagon
- 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) aftInterjection
(en interjection)Noun
(-)- The fore was painted white.
- 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.
Adverb
(-)- The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
