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Forth
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forth forþ forð forth- forð- forþ-
English
River +
Etymology 1
Proper noun
1
en river cc/Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth.
Derived terms
en Firth of Forth
Proper noun
en village carea/South Lanarkshire cc/Scotland OS grid ref NS9453.
en village carea/Central Coast and the city:Pref/Devonport northern s/Tasmania c/Australia.
Etymology 2
+ programming language
From en fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
Proper noun
en programming language An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.
See also
Forth and Bargy
Anagrams
en fhort froth
Yola
Proper noun
yol proper noun
yol Forthe
yol 1867 VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE 2 100 SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY Go gaame abuth Forth, thou unket saalvache. Go, make game about Forth, thou uncouth sloven.
yol 1867 VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE 3 100 SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth, Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,
References
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yol Places