Definitions for FORD
fɔrd, foʊrd; ˈmæd əksford

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Ford, John Fordnoun

   United States film maker (1896-1973)

2. Ford, Henry Ford IInoun

   grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)

3. Ford, Edsel Bryant Fordnoun

   son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)

4. Ford, Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffernoun

   English writer and editor (1873-1939)

5. Ford, Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford, Gerald Rudolph Ford, President Fordnoun

   38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)

6. Ford, Henry Fordnoun

   United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)

7. ford, crossingnoun

   a shallow area in a stream that can be forded

8. ford, fordingverb

   the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse

9. fordverb

   cross a river where it's shallow

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fordnoun

   A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.

2. fordverb

   To cross a stream using a ford.

3. Fordnoun

   A make of car, named for Henry Ford.

4. Fordnoun

   for someone who lived near a ford.

5. Etymology: From furduz, from per-. Cognate with ford. More at fare.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FORDnoun

   Etymology: ford, Saxon, from faran, to pass.

   1. A shallow part of a river when it may be passed without swimming.

   Her men the paths rode through made by her sword;
   They pass the stream, when she had found the ford. Edward Fairfax.

   2. It sometimes signifies the stream, the current, without any consideration of passage or shallowness.

   Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
   The ford, and of itself the water flies
   All taste of living wight. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

   Rise, wretched widow! rise; nor undeplor’d
   Permit my ghost to pass the Stygian ford:
   But rise, prepar’d in black to mourn thy perish’d lord. Dry.

2. To Fordverb

   To pass without swimming.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Adam’s shin-bones must have contained a thousand fathom, and much more, if he had forded the ocean. Walter Raleigh, Hist.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FORD

   Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln luxury brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer Troller, an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom and a 32% stake in China's Jiangling Motors. It also has joint ventures in China (Changan Ford), Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), and Turkey (Ford Otosan). The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power.Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to the Indian automaker Tata Motors in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938. Ford is the second-largest U.S.-based automaker (behind General Motors) and the fifth-largest in the world (behind Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai and General Motors) based on 2015 vehicle production. At the end of 2010, Ford was the fifth-largest automaker in Europe. The company went public in 1956 but the Ford family, through special Class B shares, still retain 40 percent of the voting rights. During the financial crisis of 2007–08 the company struggled financially but did not have to be rescued by the federal government, unlike the other two major US automakers. Ford Motors has since returned to profitability, and was the eleventh-ranked overall American-based company in the 2018 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2017 of $156.7 billion. In 2008, Ford produced 5.532 million automobiles and employed about 213,000 employees at around 90 plants and facilities worldwide.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ford

   1) Ford Motor Company: An American multinational automobile manufacturing company founded by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903. It's known for producing cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles. 2) Ford (River Crossings): A shallow place in a river or stream allowing one to walk or drive across. It's an area where the water is not deep, and people can cross without needing a bridge or boat. 3) Ford (Surname): A common surname in English-speaking countries. Notable individuals with this surname include former U.S. President Gerald Ford and American industrialist Henry Ford. 4) Ford is also used in several place names.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Fordverb

   a place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading

2. Fordverb

   a stream; a current

3. Fordverb

   to pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through

4. Etymology: [AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. fjrr bay, and to E. fare. 78. See Fare, v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ford

   Ford is a make of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ford

   fōrd, n. a place where water may be crossed on foot: a stream where it may be crossed.—v.t. to cross water on foot.—adj. Ford′able. [A.S. ford—faran, to go; Ger. furt—fahren, to go on foot; akin to Gr. poros, and to Eng. fare, ferry, and far.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ford

   The shallow part of a river, where troops may pass without injuring their arms.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ford

   A place in a river or other water where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, or by wading. A ford should not be deeper than 3 feet for infantry, 4 feet for cavalry, and 21⁄2 feet for artillery. These limits must be lessened if the stream be swift. A bottom of large stones is bad for cavalry and impracticable for carriages; gravel is the best bottom; a sandy bottom, though good at first, is apt to deepen when many troops pass.

2. ford

   To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by treading or walking on the bottom; to pass through by wading; to wade through.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FORD

   Ford as a noun means a shallow crossing in a stream or river for someone to cross it.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on March 3, 2019  

2. ---

   Fordverb

   To forget river cross

   
   

   Submitted by christineokeefe090 on July 20, 2022  

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1. ford

   Song lyrics by ford -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by ford on the Lyrics.com website.

2. FORD

   What does FORD stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FORD acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FORD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ford is ranked #137 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Ford surname appeared 184,832 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 63 would have the surname Ford.
   
   62% or 114,688 total occurrences were White.
   32% or 59,146 total occurrences were Black.
   2.5% or 4,658 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.3% or 4,381 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.6% or 1,127 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 832 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Film Maker
   • Industrialist
   • Traverse
   • Writer

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'FORD' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4165

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How to pronounce FORD?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say FORD in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of FORD in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of FORD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of FORD in a Sentence

1. Solis Doyle:

   If we did not think that the Clarence Thomas hearings was going to be an issue in 2020, well, I think what is going on with Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Professor Ford, I think it now guarantees that it will become an issue for Vice President Biden should Vice President Biden run in 2020.

2. Med Jones:

   The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies lost their leadership position to newer companies faster than their predecessors

3. Brian Fallon:

   Trump mocking Dr. Blasey Ford at a rally makes it clear : if these so-called Senate moderates vote for Kavanaugh now, they are siding with Trump's cruelty over the bravery of a sexual assault survivor.

4. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Many old timers spoke of 'winding-up' a Model 'T' Ford to get it started: In the same time period, watchmakers had perfected time-pieces which required 'winding-up' only once in every eight days:

5. Joseph Bell:

   The fear and terror continues to stalk the land near where the four bodies were found near the Moore's Ford bridge.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=FORD
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ford
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=FORD
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/FORD
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=FORD
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=FORD
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=FORD
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
12. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=FORD