What's the difference between fore and spanker?

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.

Spanker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
  • (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
  • (n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.
  • (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.
  • (n.) A small coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was watching with my parents and a girlfriend in our small living room in Fife, a long way from the lifestyles of movers and shakers (and spankers) like Tynan.
  • (2) He seemed to bid farewell to the stage as a touring Prospero in The Tempest in 2003, but returned unexpectedly in 2010 as the military relic Adolphus Spanker in Nicholas Hytner's mellow National Theatre revival of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance , alongside Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale.