| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Ford.[Websters]
2. To be pathed or gangwayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have shallowed or shoaled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have passaged, transited, approached, tracked or routed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have crossed, succeeded, passed or surpassed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have coursed, rounded, careered or journeyed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have traversed or migrated.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb ford.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (ford) | 1. Cross a river where it's shallow.[Wordnet]. 2. To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: fording, forded, fords, forder, forders, fordingly and fordedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FORDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1466. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FORDED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Passed through on foot; waded.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of ford. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: ford
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 2001 Ford World Curling Championship | The 2001 Ford World Curling Championship was held March 31-April 8, 2001 at Lausanne, Switzerland. The women's winner was Colleen Jones and her team from Canada and the men's winner was Peja Lindholm and his team from Sweden. (references) | ||
| 2002 Ford World Curling Championship | The 2002 Ford World Curling Championship was held April 6-14, 2002 at Bismarck, North Dakota. The women's winner was Jackie Lockhart and her team from Scotland and the men's winner was Randy Ferbey and his team from Canada. (references) | ||
| 2003 Ford World Curling Championship | The 2003 World Curling Championships was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from April 5 to 13. (references) | ||
| 2004 Ford World Curling Championship | The 2004 World Curling Championships was held in Gävle, Sweden from April 17 to 25. (references) | ||
| 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship | The 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship was held from April 2 - 10 at the new Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. The tournament was the first since the 1988 event that was held separately from the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship (held in Paisley, Scotland in March 2005). The winner was Randy Ferbey and his team from Canada. Ferbey won his fourth world championship, the rest of his team won their third. As a country, it was Canada's 29th World Championship. (references) | ||
| 2008 Ford World Men's Curling Championship | The 2008 Ford World Men's Curling Championship will be held in April 2008 at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, North Dakota in the USA. The 12-team tournament will take place in the prestigious 11,500 seat hockey arena on the grounds of the University of North Dakota. The 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship will take place at an as of yet unnamed Canadian facility. (references) | ||
| 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship | The 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship will be held in 2008 in an as of yet unnamed Canadian city. The 2008 Ford World Men's Curling Championship will take place in April 2008 at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in the United States city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. (references) | ||
| Alan Ford (actor) | Alan Ford is a British actor. He is perhaps best known today for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime capers Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. He also appeared in Exorcist: The Beginning and, much earlier, as 'Roosta' in the original radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. (references) | ||
| Alphonso Ford | Alphonso Gene Ford (October 31, 1971 in Greenwood, Mississippi - September 4, 2004 in Memphis, Tennessee) was a superstar basketball player in the Euroleague. (references) | ||
| Andrew Ford (Royal Household) | Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew C. Ford, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ford
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Ford crossing | Transportation | A paved crossing provided on small irrigation canals where it may be forded by traffic. Crossing used by animals is called "cattle crossing" or "cattle ghat" and that meant for carts is "cart crossing" Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Ford cup | Physics | A cup with a hole, for measuring the viscosity of liquids. It corresponds, in principle to the DIN cup, but has different dimensions and sets different times for the liquid to flow through it; these are given in the standard ASTM D 1200-58. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Ford Foundation | Economics | A US private body active in international assistance. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Grey Washer by the Ford | Literature | (The). An Irish wraith which seems to be washing clothes in a river, but when the "doomed man" approaches she holds up what she seemed to be washing, and it is the phantom of himself with his death wounds from which he is about to suffer. (Hon. Emily Lawlett; Essex in Ireland, p. 245-6.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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