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# forth

«forth» in Mova's school dictionary: **forward or onward, away from a starting place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (forth)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Forth means forward or onward, away from a starting place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#m1)

2) Back and forth means going one way and then back again, many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#m2)

3) From that time forth means from then on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#m3)

4) «And so forth» means and other things like these. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a word of motion; «back and forth» means a trip there and back, so a distance is counted twice or two trips are counted. In science: a pendulum swings back and forth. In stories: the knight rode forth; old words «go forth». Phrases: back and forth, and so forth, set forth, from that day forth, bring forth.

### examples

- He walks back and forth to school, 2 miles each way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x1)
- The swing goes back and forth 10 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x2)
- She swam back and forth across the pool 4 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x3)
- From that day forth he saved a dollar a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x4)
- The knight rode forth to find the dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x5)
- The dog ran back and forth along the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x6)
- We packed pencils, rulers, rubbers and so forth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x7)
- The pendulum of the clock swings back and forth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x8)
- Then he and Stan set forth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/#x9)

### note

Homophone: «fourth» (4th) sounds the same; do not mix them up. A rather old or formal word except in «back and forth» and «and so forth». «Back and forth» often doubles a distance or counts two trips. Trap: check whether a «back and forth» counts as one lap or two.

### In the corpora

- [A swing is a pendulum: a weight hanging from a point, going back and forth with its own steady rhythm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/0/)
- [A heavy child and a light child on the same swing take the same time to go back and forth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/9/)
- [People disagree whether moderators should cut microphones when time is up, check facts live, or let the back and forth run.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/21/)
- [Every sound is made by something vibrating — moving quickly back and forth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/0/)
- [Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.79/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.