Forth
English
Proper noun
the Forth
- A river in 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
Etymology 2
From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
Proper noun
Forth
- 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.
Anagrams
Yola
Proper noun
Forth
- Alternative form of Forthe
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:
- Go gaame abuth Forth, thou unket saalvache.
- Go, make game about Forth, thou uncouth sloven.
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:
- Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,
- Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 100
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