Definition of ford in English:

ford

noun fɔːdfɔrd

A shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across.
浅滩，可涉水而过的地方
Example sentencesExamples
- Competitors covering the ten-mile laps of course have to tackle hills, winding narrow tracks, fast forest roads and stream fords from 8pm on Saturday, September 20 until 8am the following day.
- This has been the main road east out of London since Roman times, heading out to an ancient ford over the River Lea and onwards to Colchester.
- In early times this was one of the important fords over the River Griese, and was at that time called Athbiothlinn meaning The Ford of the House of Sustenance.
- The history of Maastricht goes back to approximately 50 B.C., when the Romans built a settlement by the main road near a ford in the river.
- You used to be able to drive across the ford at Watersplash Lane, but it had to be blocked off because cars kept getting stuck halfway across, and we had to get tractors out to pull them clear.
- The road from here was good for riding and we made some good time the only problem being a couple of fords of the main river which we took very carefully.
- Access is either by a footbridge over a river or an uninviting ford.
- A few minutes later, the river ford hove into sight, and desultory fire from the enemy began to interrupt the quiet of the dawn like toy cap guns.
- Vaporous evening light dapples with shadows the descent to the ford as the path runs through tree-roots and, among the tree-roots, reeds and dangling ivy-trails edged in silver light.
- A Coptic Christian offered to show them a ford across the river.
- A mist began to settle in the treetops and drift slowly down into the lush valley where a stream cut a ford in the road.
- For example, if bridges in a road network are destroyed, maneuver forces will find other means - such as alternate routes, temporary bridges, or river fords - to accomplish their mission.
- If you carry on, follow the path across another bridge 2 where there is also a shallow ford, much loved by children.
- There had been a ford in the Manhan River at this exact spot, so perhaps the miners had brought their waste material across the river in ox-drawn carts.
- Our way, the way, was another small valley, a last ford, a last track, and time left for a wander round Whitby.
- If you attain this spirit, it applies to everyday life. You must always think of crossing at a ford.
- In this example, passage was used to describe a ford of the Jordan River.
- Conesford was probably located east of the crossroads along Holmstrete, within the river-bend, giving proximity to the two likely fords indicated by those roads.
- In 1559 extensive rebuilding took place around the pele tower, which obviously guarded a ford over the river.
- The name refers to the Cowholm - the riverside meadow used as pasturage - through which the road ran to reach a ford across the river (later the site of Bishop's Bridge).
Synonyms
crossing place, crossing, causeway
shallow place
South African drift

verb fɔːdfɔrd

[with object]

(of a person or vehicle) cross (a river or stream) at a shallow place.
（人，车辆）涉水过（河，小溪）
Example sentencesExamples
- Nothing in the vehicle is power-operated, so you could ford a river, have water sloshing through the cabin, and there's no electrics to fail.
- The Sligo river was forded somewhere close to the present bridge on Bridge Street.
- Fawning staffers strew petals in their path; highways are made straight for them; rivers are forded lest they get their feet wet.
- That way, you'll know it wasn't fording the raging river, or facing down the grizzly, or surviving the thunderstorm that left you a little changed.
- It was a sunny day and, whether the boys were taking it easy or my stairwell training had paid off, I trekked up the rocky hillside and forded the icy river with relative ease.
- We passed the occasional kamikaze truck driver hurtling down the narrow mountain roads; and forded green rivers that were spanned by metal bridges.
- For two days we hiked along the bottoms of immense canyons, in the shadows, jumping boulders, fording side streams, imagining Marco Polo doing the same thing.
- The boar lunged from his hole and into the river just as the lord was fording it, and the two met in frothing white water.
- The travelers forded the river and climbed the winding creekbed.
- They had been trekking for three days so far, stepping through knee-high grasses, fording crystalline streams, slipping on patches of pebbles.
- The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping.
- The elephant passes through the wilderness, treading shrubs, bending and uprooting trees, fording rivers and lakes easily; the rat can gain access to the bolted granary.
- Today I skied from base camp up to Heart Lake and back, traversing a couple of small passes, navigating by compass through two snow squalls, and fording a river.
- I had a happy childhood in the classic English bourgeois fashion: I read voraciously, I explored expansive gardens, I dare say I even forded a stream or two.
- After fording a babbling stream, leaping over a few obtrusive rocks, and crawling through a suspiciously low tunnel, the five kids reached what could only be described as a holy wonder.
- However, we had quite a scare when fording a river.
- It was rather like fording a river in flood today, crossing the main road in Williton.
- This route also involves crossing a high pass and fording a turbulent river, the Allt Cam in An Lairig.
- I saw him lose it once, fording a stream, and he stayed behind and dived and dived until he found it.
- Visitors are invited to climb aboard and enjoy a trek through the woodlands surrounding the village, fording a stream and passing through banana and pineapple plantations.
Synonyms
cross, traverse
wade across, walk across, drive across, travel across, make it across, make one's way across

Derivatives

fordable

adjective ˈfɔːdəb(ə)lˈfɔrdəb(ə)l

The rivers, though generally fordable in places, afforded the Russian defenses a great advantage by channeling the German advances into more predictable routes.
Example sentencesExamples
- He did not bother to see that the river was fordable in many places.
- As a defensive structure it would have been continuous, as the river is easily fordable.
- In favourable seasons it is fordable during the rains; but as a rule bamboo rafts, supported on earthen vessels, are used for crossing.
- Before establishing control in Britain, the Romans probably forded the Thames in the area of modern-day Westminster, as this was the lowest fordable point in the river.

fordless

adjective

A bridgeless and fordless river would be crossable on the strat map by building rafts.
Example sentencesExamples
- Be thou as a duck, - religion the stream; fear not the fordless sea's abyss; the duckling swims in the midst of the sea, whence the ignorant boatman turns back.
- It is rough and fordless; and it has only this morsel of kindness about it, that it does not sweep away your dwelling when the torrents and winter storms make it mad.

Origin

Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch voorde, also to fare.

This is a Germanic word, closely related to ferry (Middle English) which comes from Old Norse, and to fare (Old English). This originally meant both to journey, travel—as in farewell (Late Middle English) ‘go well, safe journey’—and the journey itself. From this developed the sense payment for a journey in late Middle English.

Rhymes

aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward

Definition of ford in US English:

ford

nounfôrdfɔrd

A shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across.
浅滩，可涉水而过的地方
Example sentencesExamples
- Competitors covering the ten-mile laps of course have to tackle hills, winding narrow tracks, fast forest roads and stream fords from 8pm on Saturday, September 20 until 8am the following day.
- Conesford was probably located east of the crossroads along Holmstrete, within the river-bend, giving proximity to the two likely fords indicated by those roads.
- This has been the main road east out of London since Roman times, heading out to an ancient ford over the River Lea and onwards to Colchester.
- A Coptic Christian offered to show them a ford across the river.
- There had been a ford in the Manhan River at this exact spot, so perhaps the miners had brought their waste material across the river in ox-drawn carts.
- Our way, the way, was another small valley, a last ford, a last track, and time left for a wander round Whitby.
- If you carry on, follow the path across another bridge 2 where there is also a shallow ford, much loved by children.
- If you attain this spirit, it applies to everyday life. You must always think of crossing at a ford.
- The road from here was good for riding and we made some good time the only problem being a couple of fords of the main river which we took very carefully.
- In this example, passage was used to describe a ford of the Jordan River.
- Vaporous evening light dapples with shadows the descent to the ford as the path runs through tree-roots and, among the tree-roots, reeds and dangling ivy-trails edged in silver light.
- In early times this was one of the important fords over the River Griese, and was at that time called Athbiothlinn meaning The Ford of the House of Sustenance.
- The history of Maastricht goes back to approximately 50 B.C., when the Romans built a settlement by the main road near a ford in the river.
- A few minutes later, the river ford hove into sight, and desultory fire from the enemy began to interrupt the quiet of the dawn like toy cap guns.
- Access is either by a footbridge over a river or an uninviting ford.
- For example, if bridges in a road network are destroyed, maneuver forces will find other means - such as alternate routes, temporary bridges, or river fords - to accomplish their mission.
- The name refers to the Cowholm - the riverside meadow used as pasturage - through which the road ran to reach a ford across the river (later the site of Bishop's Bridge).
- You used to be able to drive across the ford at Watersplash Lane, but it had to be blocked off because cars kept getting stuck halfway across, and we had to get tractors out to pull them clear.
- In 1559 extensive rebuilding took place around the pele tower, which obviously guarded a ford over the river.
- A mist began to settle in the treetops and drift slowly down into the lush valley where a stream cut a ford in the road.
Synonyms
crossing place, crossing, causeway

verbfôrdfɔrd

[with object]

(of a person or vehicle) cross (a river or stream) at a shallow place.
（人，车辆）涉水过（河，小溪）
Example sentencesExamples
- For two days we hiked along the bottoms of immense canyons, in the shadows, jumping boulders, fording side streams, imagining Marco Polo doing the same thing.
- Visitors are invited to climb aboard and enjoy a trek through the woodlands surrounding the village, fording a stream and passing through banana and pineapple plantations.
- The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping.
- After fording a babbling stream, leaping over a few obtrusive rocks, and crawling through a suspiciously low tunnel, the five kids reached what could only be described as a holy wonder.
- That way, you'll know it wasn't fording the raging river, or facing down the grizzly, or surviving the thunderstorm that left you a little changed.
- This route also involves crossing a high pass and fording a turbulent river, the Allt Cam in An Lairig.
- Nothing in the vehicle is power-operated, so you could ford a river, have water sloshing through the cabin, and there's no electrics to fail.
- The elephant passes through the wilderness, treading shrubs, bending and uprooting trees, fording rivers and lakes easily; the rat can gain access to the bolted granary.
- I had a happy childhood in the classic English bourgeois fashion: I read voraciously, I explored expansive gardens, I dare say I even forded a stream or two.
- It was rather like fording a river in flood today, crossing the main road in Williton.
- The Sligo river was forded somewhere close to the present bridge on Bridge Street.
- However, we had quite a scare when fording a river.
- I saw him lose it once, fording a stream, and he stayed behind and dived and dived until he found it.
- It was a sunny day and, whether the boys were taking it easy or my stairwell training had paid off, I trekked up the rocky hillside and forded the icy river with relative ease.
- We passed the occasional kamikaze truck driver hurtling down the narrow mountain roads; and forded green rivers that were spanned by metal bridges.
- They had been trekking for three days so far, stepping through knee-high grasses, fording crystalline streams, slipping on patches of pebbles.
- Today I skied from base camp up to Heart Lake and back, traversing a couple of small passes, navigating by compass through two snow squalls, and fording a river.
- The boar lunged from his hole and into the river just as the lord was fording it, and the two met in frothing white water.
- Fawning staffers strew petals in their path; highways are made straight for them; rivers are forded lest they get their feet wet.
- The travelers forded the river and climbed the winding creekbed.
Synonyms
cross, traverse

Origin

Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch voorde, also to fare.

词汇	ford
释义	Definition of ford in English: ford noun fɔːdfɔrd A shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across. 浅滩，可涉水而过的地方 Example sentencesExamples Competitors covering the ten-mile laps of course have to tackle hills, winding narrow tracks, fast forest roads and stream fords from 8pm on Saturday, September 20 until 8am the following day. This has been the main road east out of London since Roman times, heading out to an ancient ford over the River Lea and onwards to Colchester. In early times this was one of the important fords over the River Griese, and was at that time called Athbiothlinn meaning The Ford of the House of Sustenance. The history of Maastricht goes back to approximately 50 B.C., when the Romans built a settlement by the main road near a ford in the river. You used to be able to drive across the ford at Watersplash Lane, but it had to be blocked off because cars kept getting stuck halfway across, and we had to get tractors out to pull them clear. The road from here was good for riding and we made some good time the only problem being a couple of fords of the main river which we took very carefully. Access is either by a footbridge over a river or an uninviting ford. A few minutes later, the river ford hove into sight, and desultory fire from the enemy began to interrupt the quiet of the dawn like toy cap guns. Vaporous evening light dapples with shadows the descent to the ford as the path runs through tree-roots and, among the tree-roots, reeds and dangling ivy-trails edged in silver light. A Coptic Christian offered to show them a ford across the river. A mist began to settle in the treetops and drift slowly down into the lush valley where a stream cut a ford in the road. For example, if bridges in a road network are destroyed, maneuver forces will find other means - such as alternate routes, temporary bridges, or river fords - to accomplish their mission. If you carry on, follow the path across another bridge 2 where there is also a shallow ford, much loved by children. There had been a ford in the Manhan River at this exact spot, so perhaps the miners had brought their waste material across the river in ox-drawn carts. Our way, the way, was another small valley, a last ford, a last track, and time left for a wander round Whitby. If you attain this spirit, it applies to everyday life. You must always think of crossing at a ford. In this example, passage was used to describe a ford of the Jordan River. Conesford was probably located east of the crossroads along Holmstrete, within the river-bend, giving proximity to the two likely fords indicated by those roads. In 1559 extensive rebuilding took place around the pele tower, which obviously guarded a ford over the river. The name refers to the Cowholm - the riverside meadow used as pasturage - through which the road ran to reach a ford across the river (later the site of Bishop's Bridge). Synonyms crossing place, crossing, causeway shallow place South African drift verb fɔːdfɔrd [with object] (of a person or vehicle) cross (a river or stream) at a shallow place. （人，车辆）涉水过（河，小溪） Example sentencesExamples Nothing in the vehicle is power-operated, so you could ford a river, have water sloshing through the cabin, and there's no electrics to fail. The Sligo river was forded somewhere close to the present bridge on Bridge Street. Fawning staffers strew petals in their path; highways are made straight for them; rivers are forded lest they get their feet wet. That way, you'll know it wasn't fording the raging river, or facing down the grizzly, or surviving the thunderstorm that left you a little changed. It was a sunny day and, whether the boys were taking it easy or my stairwell training had paid off, I trekked up the rocky hillside and forded the icy river with relative ease. We passed the occasional kamikaze truck driver hurtling down the narrow mountain roads; and forded green rivers that were spanned by metal bridges. For two days we hiked along the bottoms of immense canyons, in the shadows, jumping boulders, fording side streams, imagining Marco Polo doing the same thing. The boar lunged from his hole and into the river just as the lord was fording it, and the two met in frothing white water. The travelers forded the river and climbed the winding creekbed. They had been trekking for three days so far, stepping through knee-high grasses, fording crystalline streams, slipping on patches of pebbles. The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping. The elephant passes through the wilderness, treading shrubs, bending and uprooting trees, fording rivers and lakes easily; the rat can gain access to the bolted granary. Today I skied from base camp up to Heart Lake and back, traversing a couple of small passes, navigating by compass through two snow squalls, and fording a river. I had a happy childhood in the classic English bourgeois fashion: I read voraciously, I explored expansive gardens, I dare say I even forded a stream or two. After fording a babbling stream, leaping over a few obtrusive rocks, and crawling through a suspiciously low tunnel, the five kids reached what could only be described as a holy wonder. However, we had quite a scare when fording a river. It was rather like fording a river in flood today, crossing the main road in Williton. This route also involves crossing a high pass and fording a turbulent river, the Allt Cam in An Lairig. I saw him lose it once, fording a stream, and he stayed behind and dived and dived until he found it. Visitors are invited to climb aboard and enjoy a trek through the woodlands surrounding the village, fording a stream and passing through banana and pineapple plantations. Synonyms cross, traverse wade across, walk across, drive across, travel across, make it across, make one's way across Derivatives fordable adjective ˈfɔːdəb(ə)lˈfɔrdəb(ə)l The rivers, though generally fordable in places, afforded the Russian defenses a great advantage by channeling the German advances into more predictable routes. Example sentencesExamples He did not bother to see that the river was fordable in many places. As a defensive structure it would have been continuous, as the river is easily fordable. In favourable seasons it is fordable during the rains; but as a rule bamboo rafts, supported on earthen vessels, are used for crossing. Before establishing control in Britain, the Romans probably forded the Thames in the area of modern-day Westminster, as this was the lowest fordable point in the river. fordless adjective A bridgeless and fordless river would be crossable on the strat map by building rafts. Example sentencesExamples Be thou as a duck, - religion the stream; fear not the fordless sea's abyss; the duckling swims in the midst of the sea, whence the ignorant boatman turns back. It is rough and fordless; and it has only this morsel of kindness about it, that it does not sweep away your dwelling when the torrents and winter storms make it mad. Origin Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch voorde, also to fare. This is a Germanic word, closely related to ferry (Middle English) which comes from Old Norse, and to fare (Old English). This originally meant both to journey, travel—as in farewell (Late Middle English) ‘go well, safe journey’—and the journey itself. From this developed the sense payment for a journey in late Middle English. Rhymes aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward Definition of ford in US English: ford nounfôrdfɔrd A shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across. 浅滩，可涉水而过的地方 Example sentencesExamples Competitors covering the ten-mile laps of course have to tackle hills, winding narrow tracks, fast forest roads and stream fords from 8pm on Saturday, September 20 until 8am the following day. Conesford was probably located east of the crossroads along Holmstrete, within the river-bend, giving proximity to the two likely fords indicated by those roads. This has been the main road east out of London since Roman times, heading out to an ancient ford over the River Lea and onwards to Colchester. A Coptic Christian offered to show them a ford across the river. There had been a ford in the Manhan River at this exact spot, so perhaps the miners had brought their waste material across the river in ox-drawn carts. Our way, the way, was another small valley, a last ford, a last track, and time left for a wander round Whitby. If you carry on, follow the path across another bridge 2 where there is also a shallow ford, much loved by children. If you attain this spirit, it applies to everyday life. You must always think of crossing at a ford. The road from here was good for riding and we made some good time the only problem being a couple of fords of the main river which we took very carefully. In this example, passage was used to describe a ford of the Jordan River. Vaporous evening light dapples with shadows the descent to the ford as the path runs through tree-roots and, among the tree-roots, reeds and dangling ivy-trails edged in silver light. In early times this was one of the important fords over the River Griese, and was at that time called Athbiothlinn meaning The Ford of the House of Sustenance. The history of Maastricht goes back to approximately 50 B.C., when the Romans built a settlement by the main road near a ford in the river. A few minutes later, the river ford hove into sight, and desultory fire from the enemy began to interrupt the quiet of the dawn like toy cap guns. Access is either by a footbridge over a river or an uninviting ford. For example, if bridges in a road network are destroyed, maneuver forces will find other means - such as alternate routes, temporary bridges, or river fords - to accomplish their mission. The name refers to the Cowholm - the riverside meadow used as pasturage - through which the road ran to reach a ford across the river (later the site of Bishop's Bridge). You used to be able to drive across the ford at Watersplash Lane, but it had to be blocked off because cars kept getting stuck halfway across, and we had to get tractors out to pull them clear. In 1559 extensive rebuilding took place around the pele tower, which obviously guarded a ford over the river. A mist began to settle in the treetops and drift slowly down into the lush valley where a stream cut a ford in the road. Synonyms crossing place, crossing, causeway verbfôrdfɔrd [with object] (of a person or vehicle) cross (a river or stream) at a shallow place. （人，车辆）涉水过（河，小溪） Example sentencesExamples For two days we hiked along the bottoms of immense canyons, in the shadows, jumping boulders, fording side streams, imagining Marco Polo doing the same thing. Visitors are invited to climb aboard and enjoy a trek through the woodlands surrounding the village, fording a stream and passing through banana and pineapple plantations. The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping. After fording a babbling stream, leaping over a few obtrusive rocks, and crawling through a suspiciously low tunnel, the five kids reached what could only be described as a holy wonder. That way, you'll know it wasn't fording the raging river, or facing down the grizzly, or surviving the thunderstorm that left you a little changed. This route also involves crossing a high pass and fording a turbulent river, the Allt Cam in An Lairig. Nothing in the vehicle is power-operated, so you could ford a river, have water sloshing through the cabin, and there's no electrics to fail. The elephant passes through the wilderness, treading shrubs, bending and uprooting trees, fording rivers and lakes easily; the rat can gain access to the bolted granary. I had a happy childhood in the classic English bourgeois fashion: I read voraciously, I explored expansive gardens, I dare say I even forded a stream or two. It was rather like fording a river in flood today, crossing the main road in Williton. The Sligo river was forded somewhere close to the present bridge on Bridge Street. However, we had quite a scare when fording a river. I saw him lose it once, fording a stream, and he stayed behind and dived and dived until he found it. It was a sunny day and, whether the boys were taking it easy or my stairwell training had paid off, I trekked up the rocky hillside and forded the icy river with relative ease. We passed the occasional kamikaze truck driver hurtling down the narrow mountain roads; and forded green rivers that were spanned by metal bridges. They had been trekking for three days so far, stepping through knee-high grasses, fording crystalline streams, slipping on patches of pebbles. Today I skied from base camp up to Heart Lake and back, traversing a couple of small passes, navigating by compass through two snow squalls, and fording a river. The boar lunged from his hole and into the river just as the lord was fording it, and the two met in frothing white water. Fawning staffers strew petals in their path; highways are made straight for them; rivers are forded lest they get their feet wet. The travelers forded the river and climbed the winding creekbed. Synonyms cross, traverse Origin Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch voorde, also to fare.
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