(prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
(prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
(prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
(prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
(prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
(prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
(prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
(prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
(prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
(prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
(conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
(conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
(n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
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Ford
Definition:
(v. i.) A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.
(v. i.) A stream; a current.
(v. t.) To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them.
(3) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
(4) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
(5) If that's what's happening here, we might soon be in a position to learn if Henry Ford was right.
(6) Car manufacturers such as Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen have plants here.
(7) Eamonn Forde of the music business website Music Ally says: "I think the change would just be chipping at the edges at first, but then you see things like a new generation of artists who are just huge on YouTube, who don't make the charts because they don't see themselves as having to put out singles, they make their money online.
(8) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(9) Ford takes from time out from studying to go rollerskating in Pyongyang.
(10) While promoting 1983's Return of the Jedi, Ford told an interviewer: "Three is enough for me.
(11) Peter Ford Ambassador to Syria 2003-06 • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
(12) • David Hinds (Barbados), Mark Bob Forde (Barbados), Richard Groden (Trinidad & Tobago), Yves Jean-Bart (Haiti) and Horace Reid (Jamaica) all received a warning.
(13) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
(14) Abrams currently has the production on a two-week hiatus to allow Ford to recover from a broken leg sustained on set.
(15) In a 38-year review (1950 to 1988) of surgically treated thymic tumors at Henry Ford Hospital, only 7 cases of thymic carcinoids were identified.
(16) Of approximately 6000 admissions to the Henry Ford Hospital medical ICU between October 1969 and September 1984, 61 (1%) had active tuberculosis (TB).
(17) Nevertheless, Manafort’s role with Trump has expanded quickly since he was tapped in late March to manage Trump’s convention operation and round up delegates, a speciality of Manafort’s going back to the 1976 GOP convention, when he worked for Gerald Ford’s campaign.
(18) Cameron referred to Forde, who runs a business supplying kitchen worktops, while speaking about immigration during the ITV debate on Thursday.
(19) That was the verdict of Anna Ford on Buerk's advance publicity for a Channel Five programme in which he bemoaned the fact that men have become mere "sperm donors" in a female-dominated society.
(20) Also free, there's 2012 best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd in her new show with Louise Ford, Alternative Comedy Memorial Society supremo John-Luke Roberts, controversialist Josh Howie, Sunday Assembly co-founder Pippa Evans – and indeed Omielan.