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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river of south-central Scotland flowing about 100 km (60 mi) eastward to the Firth of Forth, a wide inlet of the North Sea.

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  • proper noun 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.
  • proper noun A high level (FOuRTH generation) programming language.

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Examples

  • His open-source offerings include Forth language interpreter/compilers for very low resource systems, cache resident systems (FoxForth), and application embedding (123Forth and @Forth for spreadsheet control and function library programming), kinetic and statistical physics (simulated annealing), and support and maintenance for on-board Forth, Java and GCC programming tool chains for smart phone and PDA environments.

    developerFusion - content 2009

  • Forth is currently in Indonesia for several months, but has a book coming out this fall (assuming Kegan Paul/Routledge keeps on track), Wildman: Images from Flores, Southeast Asia, and Elsewhere.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The tree-lined, sloping course is very similar to Colonial Country Club in Forth Worth, Texas, where Verplank has always played well.

    Verplank enjoying home cooking at PGA 2007

  • We can at last see the twin Forth bridges around the corner and up the firth.

    Auld Reekie « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • We can at last see the twin Forth bridges around the corner and up the firth.

    December « 2006 « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • The Forth is the name of a bay (firth) in Scotland.

    "OUR TURN NEXT" 1942

  • Forth from the blazing ruin the children came in hot haste.

    The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

  • "Forth" -- to show the distinguished position their herd has taken.

    Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

  • That Which Calls Forth Light shines with excellent results, but not into the Great Void.

    Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999

  • That Which Calls Forth Light shines with excellent results, but not into the Great Void.

    Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999

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