What does FORD mean?

Definitions for FORD
fɔrd, foʊrd; ˈmæd əksford

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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. FORDnoun

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

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

    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.

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  1. Ford

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

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  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. fordfaran, to go; Ger. furtfahren, to go on foot; akin to Gr. poros, and to Eng. fare, ferry, and far.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ford

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

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  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 Contribution

  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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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

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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. President Barack Obama:

    Now, the last time I checked, if you drive around Washington, there are a whole bunch of Japanese cars, you go to Tokyo and count how many Chryslers and GM and Ford cars there are.

  2. Andrew Dittmar:

    From Chevron’s perspective, a sale further streamlines their upstream operations as they narrow their focus to the largest and most economic oil and gas projects while further diversifying their business to stay abreast of changes in the industry, they are likely hoping to capitalize on a resurgent Eagle Ford MA market largely driven by interest from private equity buyers.

  3. Susan Collins:

    I'm pleased that the committee mark up for this week has been canceled and there will be a public hearing and both Mark Judge Judge Kavanaugh and Professor Ford will be testifying under oath, in a public hearing, next Monday. It's exactly the outcome I'm hoped for and advocated for.

  4. Rick Meckler:

    Today the focus is a little bit on some disappointing numbers, something like a Ford. Although Facebook numbers were really good - great in fact.

  5. Former Georgia Rep. Stacey Abrams:

    I believed then and I believe now that women deserve to be heard because too often they are not, and Tara Reade deserved to have her story listened to and investigated. What was happening to Christine Blasey Ford was that there was no investigation -- there was a rush to move the conversation forward so that no investigation was conducted, i believe Joe Biden.

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