Forebode vs Forebody - What's the difference?
forebode | forebody |
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
* Tennyson
* Middleton
* H. James
(obsolete) prognostication; presage
The forepart of a vehicle.
*{{quote-book
, year=1984
, author=John C. Hilliard and George S. Springer
, title= Fuel economy in road vehicles powered by spark ignition engines
, chapter=10
, isbn=0306414384
, page=350
, passage=Beyond that, there are indications that some gains may be made on road vehicles by shaping the forebody in such a way that the external flow is channeled sideways around the vehicle, rather than over the top, as will be discussed in a later section.}}
(nautical) The part of the vessel forward of amidships.
*{{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=D. S. Sodhi
, title=Northern Sea Route Reconnaissance Study: A Summary of Icebreaking Technology
, isbn=1428914501
, page=22
, passage=The wear-off is intensified in heavily loaded areas, such as the ice belt in the ship's forebody , and during operations in heavy ice and especially in presence of soil or sand mixed in ice.}}
(physiology) thorax
As nouns the difference between forebode and forebody
is that forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage while forebody is the forepart of a vehicle.As a verb forebode
is to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).forebode
English
Alternative forms
* forbode (much less commonly used)Verb
(forebod)- There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
- His heart forebodes a mystery.
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
- I have a sort of foreboding about him.