forthforth /fɔːθ $ fɔːrθ/ ●○○ adverb 
She started telling me about her bad back, her migraines, and so forth.2[only after verb] formal going out from a place or point, and moving forwards or outwards: The house was still burning, pouring forth thick black smoke. → back and forth at back1(11), → hold forth at hold1, → put forth at put, → sally forth at sally2, → set forth at set1
WORD ORIGINforth
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- They marched forth into battle.
- After a sleepless night Stavrogin sets forth.
- He is champion of the sceptics, and he sallies forth with his banners flying.
- Men passed back and forth from the rank and file.
- More bullets spattered the front of the cottage, drilling lines back and forth in the stonework.
- She hovered back and forth just barely above the ground, often returning to the same area again and again.
- They created an egg from which came forth the sun, who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world.
- To switch back and forth between the two documents, press Shift-F3.
- What horrors will it bring forth?
Longman Language Activatorto talk too much about a particular thing
also keep on British especially spoken to keep talking or complaining about something, in a way that is annoying or boring: go on about: · I wish you'd stop going on about how expensive everything is.· Lucy keeps on about little things that happened in the past until I want to scream.go on and on (=keep talking for a long time): · He went on and on until we were all practically asleep.
to keep mentioning something in a way that other people find annoying: · Stop harping on the weather - we can't change it.harp on about: · If you harp on about their bad habits too long, the kids will just stop listening.
British /belabor the point American to express the same idea again and again with the intention of making it clear, but with the result that people get bored: · Everyone agrees with what you said - there's no need to belabor the point.· If the students aren't listening it may be because the teacher is labouring the point too much.
to talk to a group of people you are with, giving your opinions or telling a story in a way that does not let other people have a chance to talk - use this when you think the situation is slightly humorous: · Grandma was holding forth as usual, retelling all the old family stories.hold forth about/on: · Tom was in the corner, holding forth about the economic situation.· After a few drinks, he would hold forth for hours on government conspiracy theories.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He was swinging his bag back and forth.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
He was swinging his bag back and forth.· For without the women and their connection to the Earth, who would bring forth the prophecies?· Any kind of injury brings forth the repairing response, happily for us.· He gave us a new set of principles, goals, and expectations which brought forth the best from each of us.· Why does Elsbeth not bring forth a child?· What horrors will it bring forth?· Alex fidgeted impatiently as Miles was brought forth on a stretcher, ignoring the welfare of the Base Coordinator completely.· Mrs Nishimae goes to a cupboard and brings forth an envelope for Christine.
· Will tomorrow's flashes of scientific insight burst forth beneath the strobe lights of studio 54?· Athena burst forth, armed as a warrior.· It is time to leave off, his daughter tells him, it s time to burst forth like a butterfly.· But it is hard to resist a plant once you see it burst forth in flawless bloom from the frozen ground.· Within that frigate were seeds of destruction that would soon burst forth.· Sown in March, they will be full and leafy by the time the roses burst forth in early June.· Thwarted in the East it then burst forth in the West.· Resurrection, therefore, means that moment when one bursts forth from the sepulchre of the old man.
· But how was the demand to call forth the supply?· It was dominated by Franklin Roosevelt, the cunning, determined, good-natured president called forth by the crisis of the Depression.· The Eddie was not called forth by an act of human will.· What was it that had called forth the mental association?· Her story ... evokes the imagination, calling forth a reader's response ....· Who knows what such a happenstance might have called forth from my unpredictable nature?· The kind of response which it calls forth is not a factual wonder why but a wonder at.· He called forth again the language of the elect, but turned it from the Puritan community to the whole nation.
· They created an egg from which came forth the sun, who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world.· A sweet spirit of holy song came forth in notes like that of a nightingale and it filled the whole building.· Come forth from slumbers of thy cold abstraction.· Then would come forth a slow laugh.-You win, Brice, you win, he would say.· Lono, who came forth from the waves, did not write.· His voice had moved down the register until it came forth as a kind of feral growl.· At the miracle of my birth, I came forth when my father summoned me.· And while his memory searched wildly for a scripture, nothing came forth.
· It had been repainted since the war, but, as far as she knew, it had never given forth music.· The Earth gives forth plants in the way women give forth babies, out of a hidden darkness.· She was still giving forth when he came in to investigate.· The Earth gives forth plants in the way women give forth babies, out of a hidden darkness.· While the oven and the dough are warming up, the yeast may revive and give forth one final push.
· I rose, went forth, and followed thee.· The King went forth with two great dogs following him, his sole retinue and bodyguard.· Some say that like Judas he went forth and hanged himself.· No wonder people came, and no wonder they went forth to proclaim the message to the world.· In fact, he had told her in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply.· Obediently as always Psyche went forth to look for the road to Hades.· This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war, unchanged as yet from the armies of the past.· Back and forth went the untouched pages; the unbearable heat of the locomotive filled the air.
· And how will it feel after he has held forth on television for five years?· They like being the centre of attention, are more narcissistic, and more likely to hold forth about their achievements.· Perhaps six feet around and coated with mirrors, it twinkles above the Empire Bar while a swing band holds forth below.· What right did anybody have to hold forth about his marriage?· In every report he has written so far, action holds forth over interpretation.· Lily was holding forth, her pinched face sallow with indignation.· Excessively bizarre, loving to hold forth, but speaking with spirit.
· Cheap electricity would soon be issuing forth from reactors fed by an inexhaustible resource - seawater.· Conjectures issued forth from every field and occupation.
· No hardship: the wit pours forth on every page, along with the lamentations.· Will it make research funding pour forth increasingly?· Scholarly ink, mixed with scholarly gall, was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery.
· Texts put forth a gospel of real manhood and real womanhood.· Newsletters are designed to put forth the vision of the school and systems.· Then the plants will bush out, putting forth fresh shoots at frequent intervals.· Driving the process was the ongoing debate over what might be the very best face Lisa could put forth.· The plant grows rapidly and puts forth floating leaves.· Put forth some ideas as to what might be helpful.· Slowly, the teacher enables the student to become more adept at putting forth effort for longer periods of time.
· Then the plants will bush out, putting forth fresh shoots at frequent intervals.· Slowly, the teacher enables the student to become more adept at putting forth effort for longer periods of time.· Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.· But we have to be concerned about the policies Republicans are putting forth, anti-choice, anti-environment, anti-women.
· Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.· But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.· We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.
· It sends forth long, trailing stems with leaves up to the water surface, where they float.· Imagine what a message that would send forth, both inside the city and out.
· The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.· These rudiments of space and close personal relationships grow out of the tasks set forth in the classroom.· Joe set forth the Chennault case once more in a twenty-one-page memorandum sent to Hopkins in early March.· No formal, authoritative documents set forth these rules, and they find no embodiment in statute law.· Rousseau introduced a new moral system, which was in essence a reiteration of ideas already set forth by Shaftesbury and Pope.· Individual Unit Histories - all are meticulously set forth.· Here Whitman sets forth his basic tenets and suggests the central movement that is to follow.
· The plates realigned and subduction resumed, sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras.· The magic porridge pot that has spewed forth riches in the past may work for us for a few decades more.· As I sat there, the china spewed forth from the open door and cascaded down the ready-made ramp into my lap.
· It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.· As they venture forth from parents to explore their own worlds, children must make their own discoveries.· After breakfast I ventured forth, and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings.· All field-workers took weapons with them, and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties.· Even pony trap revivalists feel safe to venture forth here.· Twice on Sundays he would thus venture forth, as well as to Evensong on Wednesdays and Fridays.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► set something ↔ forth
1and so forth used to refer to other things of the type you have already mentioned, without actually naming them SYN et cetera: - The study included women of different ages, races and so forth.
- And she thought, oh, maybe she was just overtired, and so forth.
- By uh by listing factors and so forth.
- He must choose a diet, exercise, relaxation, and so forth.
- Motion precedes quiescence, which in turn precedes motion, which in turn precedes quiescence, and so forth.
- Please would we list our safety equipment, the radio, the distress beacon, and so forth?
- Satan has sovereignties and powers and so forth working for him as well.
- Try Yahoo listings of organizations and so forth, and Google for mentions on Web pages.
- You browse the Web daily for ideas and download interesting articles from newspapers, magazines and so forth.
- Brach flies back and forth weekly, between New York and L.A.
- The chair squeaks when you rock back and forth.
- A few of the mounts shifted their feet; here and there a rider slid his sword back and forth in its scabbard.
- It goes back and forth though.
- My feet hurt, and the side window waggled back and forth each time I kicked it, but nothing else happened.
- Petey heard him trying to brave it out, rocking back and forth to make the pain subside.
- The road twisted, two lanes of blacktop angling back and forth up the side of the mountain.
- They passed it back and forth.
- This gives you the freedom to move back and forth and swing your arm - you must feel free!
- To switch back and forth between the two documents, press Shift-F3.
- Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
- A central zone leads to other areas where you can test yourself, gain information, do puzzles and so on.
- And so on and so on, the critiques having merit but missing the point.
- Asteroids contain a variety of rare radioactive isotopes of potassium, uranium, thorium, rubidium, and so on.
- I also become more mentally sensitive to social problems, the ills of the world and so on.
- It would have to be done very quietly and so forth and so on.
- Symbols are things that bear some resemblance to what they represent: drawings, silhouettes, and so forth.
She started telling me about her bad back, her migraines, and so forth.2[only after verb] formal going out from a place or point, and moving forwards or outwards: The house was still burning, pouring forth thick black smoke. → back and forth at back1(11), → hold forth at hold1, → put forth at put, → sally forth at sally2, → set forth at set1