(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.
Fork
Definition:
(v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
(n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
(n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
(n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
(n.) The gibbet.
(v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
(v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
(5) Although later studies have suggested that fork encounter during termination is an active process involving specific termination sites and the tus protein, the coupling mechanism between termination and cell division remains to be elucidated.
(6) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
(7) The position of replication origins and replication forks relative to the nuclear matrix was analysed by autoradiography.
(8) Electron microscopy of the replicating molecules, after digestion with restriction endonucleases, showed that the replication fork proceeds exclusively counter-clockwise towards the unc operon.
(9) The retarded fork progression and shorter initiation intervals may result either from the continued operation of a subset of replication units resistant to the inhibition of protein synthesis, or be manifestations of the inhibition of protein synthesis on all active sites.
(10) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(11) However, the mean length of the single-stranded gaps in Drosophila forks is less than 200 nucleotide residues, much shorter than the gaps in phage forks.
(12) The vibrations generated by tapping a simplified mandible model were similar to those of the transverse type of a bar and tuning fork.
(13) Using this system, we have studied the cycle of Okazaki fragment synthesis at the replication fork.
(14) It speaks with forked tongues Leave aside the now acknowledged mistake of featuring Lampitt in the party political broadcast.
(15) "It's important to remember that at every point when there has been a fork in the road about whether Britain should retreat or lead, when we have led we have always surprised ourselves and others about how successfully we can lead," he says.
(16) Relaxation protein could replace the combined action of an endonuclease and a ligase ahead of the replication fork.
(17) They’re not excited but, dammit, they’ll make the best of what’s there, who’s got a fork?
(18) In the slower second stage of breakdown, the aberrant DNA replication intermediates remained nicked and strongly associated with protein as they underwent DNA replication fork breakage and recombinational changes to produce high molecular weight forms.
(19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
(20) The government is at a fork in the road on prisons policy.