ford
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Ford
n 1: United States film maker (1896-1973) [syn: {Ford}, {John
Ford}]
2: grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987) [syn: {Ford}, {Henry Ford
II}]
3: son of Henry Ford (1893-1943) [syn: {Ford}, {Edsel Bryant
Ford}]
4: English writer and editor (1873-1939) [syn: {Ford}, {Ford
Madox Ford}, {Ford Hermann Hueffer}]
5: 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president
and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-) [syn: {Ford},
{Gerald Ford}, {Gerald R. Ford}, {Gerald Rudolph Ford},
{President Ford}]
6: United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass
production (1863-1947) [syn: {Ford}, {Henry Ford}]
7: a shallow area in a stream that can be forded [syn: {ford},
{crossing}]
8: the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car
or on a horse [syn: {ford}, {fording}]
v 1: cross a river where it's shallow
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ford \Ford\ (f[=o]rd), n. [AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel.
fj["o]r[eth]r bay, and to E. fare. [root]78. See {Fare}, v.
i., and cf. {Frith} arm of the sea.]
1. A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed
by man or beast on foot, by wading.
[1913 Webster]
He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]
2. A stream; a current.
[1913 Webster]
With water of the ford
Or of the clouds. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
Permit my ghost to pass the Styg?an ford. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Ford
Mention is frequently made of the fords of the Jordan (Josh.
2:7; Judg. 3:28; 12:5, 6), which must have been very numerous;
about fifty perhaps. The most notable was that of Bethabara.
Mention is also made of the ford of the Jabbok (Gen. 32:22), and
of the fords of Arnon (Isa. 16:2) and of the Euphrates (Jer.
51:32).
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Ford, KS (city, FIPS 23725)
Location: 37.63699 N, 99.75400 W
Population (1990): 247 (122 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67842
Ford, WA
Zip code(s): 99013
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Ford, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 314
Housing Units (2000): 121
Land area (2000): 0.419623 sq. miles (1.086819 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.419623 sq. miles (1.086819 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23725
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.635977 N, 99.753013 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67842
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ford, KS
Ford
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Ford -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 14241
Housing Units (2000): 6060
Land area (2000): 485.899192 sq. miles (1258.473076 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.517324 sq. miles (1.339862 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 486.416516 sq. miles (1259.812938 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.552455 N, 88.223413 W
Headwords:
Ford
Ford, IL
Ford County
Ford County, IL
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Ford -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 32458
Housing Units (2000): 11650
Land area (2000): 1098.498110 sq. miles (2845.096923 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.788199 sq. miles (2.041426 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1099.286309 sq. miles (2847.138349 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.720186 N, 99.912921 W
Headwords:
Ford
Ford, KS
Ford County
Ford County, KS
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "ford":
access, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue,
bank, bar, bestride, bypass, channel, cloister, colonnade,
communication, conduit, connection, coral reef, corridor,
covered way, cross, defile, exit, ferry, flat, gallery,
get ahead of, go across, go by, inlet, interchange, intersection,
junction, lane, opening, outlet, overpass, overstride, pass,
pass by, pass over, passage, passageway, portico, railroad tunnel,
reef, sandbank, sandbar, shallow, shallows, shelf, shoal,
shoal water, shoot ahead of, step over, straddle, tidal flats,
traject, trajet, tunnel, underpass, wetlands
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