fourth vs forth
Definitions
adjective
- coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
adverb
- in the fourth place
noun
- one of four equal parts
- following the third position; number four in a countable series
- the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
Examples
This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
But Sexton found Nicks for an easy 31-yard score on fourth down with 4: 11 left to seal it, and Nicks set the receiving record with a 22-yard catch a little later from T.J. Yates, making his first appearance in relief from a broken ankle suffered in September against Virginia Tech. Newspaper Home Delivery - Subscribe Today
I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others.
Definitions
noun
- a river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth
Examples
Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety.
Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher.
