What's the difference between fore and foregone?

Fore


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Journey; way; method of proceeding.
  • (adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
  • (adv.) Formerly; previously; afore.
  • (adv.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
  • (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
  • (n.) The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
  • (prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
  • (2) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
  • (3) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
  • (4) This caused variations in fore-and-aft motion with position along the vertical axis of the head and variations in vertical motion with position along the fore-and-aft axis of the head.
  • (5) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
  • (6) No evidence for a differential decussation of fore-limb and hind-limb fibers was found.
  • (7) Standard 5-member series of weak electro-cutaneous stimulations of the fore-paw were applied in chronic experiments to two dogs with implanted cortical electrodes.
  • (8) Electromyographic studies revealed some abnormal insertional activity but no abnormal potentials when the fore- and hindlimb muscles were at total rest.
  • (9) Taking a break from rehearsal, police baton in hand, the 34-year-old said: "It doesn't point to anybody, but it brings to the fore the pain the tragic event cost.
  • (10) These fibers accumulated dorsomedially to the rostral pole of the substantia nigra where they formed a massive bundle that coursed through the prerubral field and ascended along the laterodorsal aspect of the medial fore-brain bundle in the lateral hypothalamus.
  • (11) The receptive fields of 48 specific cold units, located in the hairy and glaborous skin of fore- and hindlimbs of rhesus monkeys, were mapped and scale drawings made.
  • (12) The rat somatosensory (SI) cortex contains a precise map of the cutaneous periphery, yet its rostromedial edge, which includes part of the fore- and hind paw representation, has been reported to functionally overlap with the electrically excitable primary motor (MI) cortex.
  • (13) While gender violence occurs worldwide, the problem has come to the fore in several countries in Latin America through the work of prominent feminist groups, many of which argue their region is particularly plagued by social insecurity and male-dominated traditions.
  • (14) Exposure to phosphoramide mustard produced limb reduction malformations in both the fore- and hindlimbs; total limb bone area was greatly reduced, while the relative contribution of the paw to this area in forelimbs was increased.
  • (15) Periodontal disease is therefore considered a fore-runner to the clinically more important spinal osteoporosis.
  • (16) For this enzyme beside the nuclei, the commissures and fore-brain bundles are seen equipped with very intense activity.
  • (17) ACR-CH or aclarubicin aqueous solution (ACR-sol) was injected subcutaneously into the fore foot-pads of rats.
  • (18) We have examined early neuronal differentiation and axonogenesis in the fore- and midbrain of zebrafish embryos to address general issues of early vertebrate brain development.
  • (19) The impulses of fore-aft force were closely correlated with step length.
  • (20) Excessive weight-bearing on the complete fore-foot as a consequence of missing support by contracted metatarsophalangeal joints.

Foregone


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Forego

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (2) Barcelona’s tormentor-in-chief put his penalty to Cech’s right and, although Wenger insisted he will play his strongest team in the return leg, that moment makes it feel like a foregone conclusion.
  • (3) Ultimately, it is only the explicit recognition by the medical profession, government agencies, corporate insurers, and the general public of the nature and significance of this market failure and foregone benefits which can lead to remediation.
  • (4) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
  • (5) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said he did not accept that the AV result was a "foregone conclusion", despite opinion polls suggestions the yes campaign is heading for defeat.
  • (6) "And all the best to the young chap who said that England winning was a foregone conclusion.
  • (7) Built into the name of the inquiry are the foregone conclusions: first, the desired equivalence of Nazi and Soviet crimes; and second, the limitation to consider the crimes of "occupation regimes", leaving little scope for investigation of the genocide committed by local forces, in some cases before the occupation began.
  • (8) A pretty large majority of the policy elite thinks this will get approved although it’s not a foregone conclusion,” Moran said.
  • (9) But the climate change levy raises less than is foregone by the national insurance cut.
  • (10) 1.17am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, bottom of 1st Lance Lynn pus a 1-0 fastball right in the wheelhouse but Carl Crawford can only lift it to center field - John Jay is waiting, and has it, which, by the way is no longer a foregone conclusion following his dismal performance last night.
  • (11) Experts say the outcome of the election is a foregone conclusion and only voter turnout will be a gauge of popularity for Sisi, who has enjoyed cult-like status since he ousted his predecessor Mohamed Morsi in 2013 .
  • (12) Boris Johnson It is almost a foregone conclusion that the London mayor will return to parliament as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip following the resignation of former deputy chief whip Sir John Randall, meaning he will spend a year combining the jobs of mayor and MP.
  • (13) And given the constrained nature of the UK private medical sector, the effect of tax relief would most likely be not a saving to the NHS but a considerable cost to the Treasury in income foregone to fund the tax relief, and an increase in the fees that doctors and private hospitals could charge.
  • (14) This translates into about $900bn of foregone goods and services this year alone – a tremendous waste reflected in an unemployment rate of 7.9% and a poverty rate of 15%, significantly higher than the average of the past 30 years.
  • (15) That, of course, was basically a foregone conclusion roughly seconds after Derrick Rose went down for the Chicago Bulls and it became obvious they were the only true championship-caliber teams in the whole Eastern Conference.
  • (16) They wanted to present the revocation of our contract and the reduction in our pay to the citizens of Philadelphia (and, more importantly, the rest of Pennsylvania, where Corbett stands a remote chance at the polls) as though it were a foregone conclusion that our city’s educators are irrevocably opposed to the needs of our kids – that we wouldn’t have stepped up or sacrificed enough.
  • (17) A foregone conclusion is that central neural and endocrine control of gastrointestinal functions is based on a complex array of interconnecting brain structures, neurochemical systems, and hormonal modulators.
  • (18) Thompson said today's decision showed that the BBC Trust's PVT was not a foregone conclusion, as some critics had claimed.
  • (19) But the broadcaster, SABC, decided to make only nine programmes, because the winner was a foregone conclusion.
  • (20) Adolf Eichmann's trial on charges of war crimes might, in the eyes of some people, present a foregone conclusion.