ford
part of speech
noun (a ford, fords); verb (ford, fords, forded, fording); Ford (a name)
meaning for a pupil
1) A ford is a shallow place in a river or stream where you can walk, ride or drive across. tree →
2) To ford a river means to cross it at a shallow place. tree →
3) Ford is a family name and the name of a car company. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography and history: many towns grew at fords (Oxford, Bradford, Stratford). In safety: never try to drive or walk through a flooded ford — water can sweep you away. Phrases: cross at the ford, ford a river.
examples
- The horses crossed the river at the ford. tree →
- Oxford was named after a ford where oxen crossed. tree →
- The road has a ford instead of a bridge. tree →
- The settlers forded the stream with their wagons. tree →
- Do not drive through the ford when it is flooded. tree →
- Dad's first car was a Ford. tree →
- Renelde waded the ford, returned to the hut, and sat down to spin. tree →
note
Countable: a ford. As a name, write Ford with a capital letter. Place names ending in -ford tell us there was once a river crossing. Safety: only 15 centimetres of fast water can knock you down.
In the corpora
- Henry Ford's moving assembly line, started in 1913, made cars cheap enough for many families.
- And the fords are seized, and the castles they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ford» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.