Forth vs Toward - What's the difference?

As a proper noun forth

is a river in scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from the trossachs through stirling to the firth of forth on the north sea or forth can be an imperative, stack-based high-level programming language.

As a preposition toward is

in the direction of.

As an adjective toward is

(obsolete) future; to come.

forth

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . Compare Dutch voort.

Adverb

(-)

Forward in time, place or degree.

* Shakespeare

From this time forth , I never will speak word.

* Strype

I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bade me say forth ; I said I was taught no more.

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Out into view; from a particular place or position.

The plants in spring put forth leaves.

The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.

(obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

* Shakespeare

I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

(obsolete) Thoroughly; from beginning to end.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* forth- * and so forth * back and forth * blossom forth * bring forth * burst forth * call forth * come forth * give forth * go forth * hold forth * pour forth * put forth * send forth * set forth * stand forth * stretch forth

Preposition

(English prepositions)

(obsolete) Forth from; out of.

* John Donne

Some forth their cabins peep.

Etymology 2

From (fourth) - compare (forty)

Adjective

(head)

Noun

(head)

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Anagrams

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toward

English

Preposition

(en-prep) (mainly in American English)

In the direction of.

*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 1

*:He set his face toward the wilderness.

*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

In relation to (someone or something).

*(Bible), (w)

*:His eye shall be evil toward his brother.

For the purpose of attaining (an aim).

Located close to; near (a time or place).

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:I am toward nine years older since I left you.

Synonyms

* towards

Usage notes

* Although some have tried to discern a semantic distinction between the words (term) and (towards), the difference is merely dialectal. (term) is more common in American English and (towards) is the predominant form in British English.

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Future; to come.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:

ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood [...].

(dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.

* Shakespeare

Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward ?

* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional

On the morrow […] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu , and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward , comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.

Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.

(obsolete, or, archaic) Promising, likely; froward.

Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. ? Shakespeare.

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* American English