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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Forth  \Forth\,  v.[AS.  for[eth],  fr  for  akin  to  D.  voort,  G. 
  fort  [root]78.  See  {Fore},  {For},  and  cf  {Afford}, 
  {Further},  adv.] 
  1.  Forward;  onward  in  time,  place  or  order  in  advance  from 
  a  given  point;  on  to  end  as  from  that  day  forth;  one 
  two  three  and  so  forth. 
 
  Lucas  was  Paul's  companion,  at  the  leastway  from  the 
  sixteenth  of  the  Acts  forth.  --Tyndale. 
 
  From  this  time  forth,  I  never  will  speak  word 
  --Shak. 
 
  I  repeated  the  Ave  Maria;  the  inquisitor  bad  me  say 
  forth;  I  said  I  was  taught  no  more  --Strype. 
 
  2.  Out  as  from  a  state  of  concealment,  retirement, 
  confinement,  nondevelopment,  or  the  like  out  into  notice 
  or  view;  as  the  plants  in  spring  put  forth  leaves. 
 
  When  winter  past,  and  summer  scarce  begun,  Invites 
  them  forth  to  labor  in  the  sun.  --Dryden. 
 
  3.  Beyond  a  (certain)  boundary;  away  abroad;  out 
 
  I  have  no  mind  of  feasting  forth  to-night.  --Shak. 
 
  4.  Throughly;  from  beginning  to  end  [Obs.]  --Shak. 
 
  {And  so  forth},  {Back  and  forth},  {From  forth}.  See  under 
  {And},  {Back},  and  {From}. 
 
  {Forth  of},  {Forth  from},  out  of  [Obs.]  --Shak. 
 
  {To  bring  forth}.  See  under  {Bring}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Forth  \Forth\,  prep. 
  Forth  from  out  of  [Archaic] 
 
  Some  forth  their  cabins  peep.  --Donne. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Forth  \Forth\,  n.  [OE.,  a  ford.  ?  78.  See  {Frith}.] 
  A  way  a  passage  or  ford.  [Obs.]  --Todd. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  forth 
  adv  1:  from  a  particular  thing  or  place  or  position;  "ran  away  from 
  the  lion";  "  wanted  to  get  away  from  there";  "sent  the 
  children  away  to  boarding  school";  "the  teacher  waved 
  the  children  away  from  the  dead  animal";  "went  off  to 
  school";  "they  drove  off";  (`forth'  is  obsolete  as  in 
  "go  forth  and  preach")  [syn:  {away},  {off}] 
  2:  forward  in  time  or  order  or  degree;  "from  that  time  forth"; 
  "from  the  sixth  century  onward"  [syn:  {forward},  {onward}] 
  3:  out  into  view;  "came  forth  from  the  crowd";  "put  my  ideas 
  forth" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  FORTH 
 
  1.    An  interactive  extensible  language  using 
  {postfix  syntax}  and  a  data  stack,  developed  by  Charles 
  H.  Moore  in  the  1960s.  FORTH  is  highly  user-configurable  and 
  there  are  many  different  implementations,  the  following 
  description  is  of  a  typical  default  configuration. 
 
  Forth  programs  are  structured  as  lists  of  words"  -  FORTH's 
  term  which  encompasses  language  keywords,  primitives  and 
  user-defined  {subroutines}.  Forth  takes  the  idea  of 
  subroutines  to  an  extreme  -  nearly  everything  is  a  subroutine. 
  A  word  is  any  string  of  characters  except  the  separator  which 
  defaults  to  space.  Numbers  are  treated  specially.  Words  are 
  read  one  at  a  time  from  the  input  stream  and  either  executed 
  immediately  ("interpretive  execution")  or  compiled  as  part  of 
  the  definition  of  a  new  word 
 
  The  sequential  nature  of  list  execution  and  the  implicit  use 
  of  the  data  stack  (numbers  appearing  in  the  lists  are  pushed 
  to  the  stack  as  they  are  encountered)  imply  postfix  syntax. 
  Although  postfix  notation  is  initially  difficult,  experienced 
  users  find  it  simple  and  efficient. 
 
  Words  appearing  in  executable  lists  may  be  "{primitives}" 
  (simple  {assembly  language}  operations),  names  of  previously 
  compiled  procedures  or  other  special  words  A  procedure 
  definition  is  introduced  by  ":"  and  ended  with  ";"  and  is 
  compiled  as  it  is  read. 
 
  Most  Forth  dialects  include  the  source  language  structures 
  BEGIN-AGAIN,  BEGIN-WHILE-REPEAT,  BEGIN-UNTIL,  DO-LOOP,  and 
  IF-ELSE-THEN,  and  others  can  be  added  by  the  user.  These  are 
  "compiling  structures"  which  may  only  occur  in  a  procedure 
  definition. 
 
  FORTH  can  include  in-line  {assembly  language}  between  CODE" 
  and  ENDCODE"  or  similar  constructs.  Forth  primitives  are 
  written  entirely  in  {assembly  language},  secondaries  contain  a 
  mixture.  In  fact  code  in-lining  is  the  basis  of  compilation 
  in  some  implementations. 
 
  Once  assembled,  primitives  are  used  exactly  like  other  words 
  A  significant  difference  in  behaviour  can  arise,  however,  from 
  the  fact  that  primitives  end  with  a  jump  to  "NEXT",  the  entry 
  point  of  some  code  called  the  sequencer,  whereas 
  non-primitives  end  with  the  address  of  the  EXIT"  primitive. 
  The  EXIT  code  includes  the  scheduler  in  some  {multi-tasking} 
  systems  so  a  process  can  be  {deschedule}d  after  executing  a 
  non-primitive,  but  not  after  a  primitive. 
 
  Forth  implementations  differ  widely.  Implementation 
  techniques  include  {threaded  code},  dedicated  Forth 
  processors,  {macros}  at  various  levels,  or  interpreters 
  written  in  another  language  such  as  {C}.  Some  implementations 
  provide  {real-time}  response,  user-defined  data  structures, 
  {multitasking},  {floating-point}  arithmetic,  and/or  {virtual 
  memory}. 
 
  Some  Forth  systems  support  virtual  memory  without  specific 
  hardware  support  like  {MMU}s.  However,  Forth  virtual  memory 
  is  usually  only  a  sort  of  extended  data  space  and  does  not 
  usually  support  executable  code. 
 
  FORTH  does  not  distinguish  between  {operating  system}  calls 
  and  the  language.  Commands  relating  to  I/O,  {file  systems} 
  and  {virtual  memory}  are  part  of  the  same  language  as  the 
  words  for  arithmetic,  memory  access  loops,  IF  statements,  and 
  the  user's  application. 
 
  Many  Forth  systems  provide  user-declared  vocabularies"  which 
  allow  the  same  word  to  have  different  meanings  in  different 
  contexts.  Within  one  vocabulary,  re-defining  a  word  causes 
  the  previous  definition  to  be  hidden  from  the  interpreter  (and 
  therefore  the  compiler),  but  not  from  previous  definitions. 
 
  FORTH  was  first  used  to  guide  the  telescope  at  NRAO,  Kitt 
  Peak.  Moore  considered  it  to  be  a  {fourth-generation 
  language}  but  his  {operating  system}  wouldn't  let  him  use  six 
  letters  in  a  program  name  so  FOURTH  became  FORTH. 
 
  Versions  include  fig-FORTH,  FORTH  79  and  FORTH  83. 
 
  {FAQs 
  (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/faq-general-2.html)}. 
  {ANS  Forth  standard,  dpANS6 
  (http://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans.html)}. 
 
  FORTH  Interest  Group  Box  1105,  San  Carlos  CA  94070. 
 
  See  also  {51forth},  {F68K},  {cforth},  {E-Forth},  {FORML}, 
  {TILE  Forth}. 
 
  [Leo  Brodie  "Starting  Forth"]. 
 
  [Leo  Brodie  "Thinking  Forth"]. 
 
  [Jack  Woehr  "Forth,  the  New  Model"]. 
 
  [R.G.  Loeliger  "Threaded  Interpretive  Languages"]. 
 
  2.  {FOundation  for  Research  and  Technology  -  Hellas}. 
 
  (1997-04-16) 
 
 




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