| 单词 | ford |
| 释义 | ford (once / 1250 pages) vn When you’re out hiking in the wilderness, you may have to ford a river if there’s no bridge. Roll up your pant legs because you'll have to wade through the water at a shallow point. The verb ford describes crossing a body of water on foot at a shallow point or driving across it in a vehicle. The idea is that you’re not using a bridge or a boat to cross the water. Ford also has a noun form, meaning a shallow point in a river or stream. So if you ever have to ford a river, make sure you cross at the ford — the shallow point — or you could get very wet. WORD FAMILYford: fordable, forded, fording, fords+/fording: fordings USAGE EXAMPLESThose from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala ride atop trains, dodge bandits and ford rivers just to reach Sonora. The Guardian(Nov 13, 2016) Residents can saddle up borrowed horses for catered ride-and-dine evenings, ford rivers on rugged trail rides—and even ride to hounds in simulated fox hunts. Wall Street Journal(Oct 27, 2016) Stories circulate of people being swept away as they forded fast-moving rivers. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) 1v cross a river where it's shallow Hyper cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse travel across or pass over 2n a shallow area in a stream that can be forded Syn|Hyper crossing body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) 3n the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse Syn|Hypo|Hyper fording shallow fording fording at a shallow place deep fordingfording at a deep place in the stream crossing traveling across Ford (once / 423 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n 6n WORD FAMILY Ford: Fords USAGE EXAMPLESIchthyosaurs were disappearing from the seas when the Eagle Ford formed, some 88 million to 96 million years ago. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Big companies like Ford and International Business Machines Corp., as well as government agencies and especially the Department of Defense, all employ futurists. Wall Street Journal(Jan 01, 2017) She won the popular vote by 2.1 percentage points, about the same as Jimmy Carter's 1976 margin over Gerald Ford. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 n United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947) 2Syn|Exp Henry Ford industrialist someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise n son of Henry Ford (1893-1943) 3Syn|Exp Edsel Bryant Ford industrialist someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise n grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987) 4Syn|Exp Henry Ford II industrialist someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise n United States film maker (1896-1973) 5Syn|Exp John Ford film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker a producer of motion pictures n English writer and editor (1873-1939) 6Syn|Exp Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Ford author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) n 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-) Syn|Exp Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald Rudolph Ford, President Ford Chief Executive, President, President of the United States, United States President the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government |
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