Fore, foreward – Towards the bow (of the vessel).

For the acronym, see FORE

Fore

The Fore live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 20,000 Fore who are separated by the Wanevinti Mountains into the North Fore and South Fore regions. Their main form of survival is slash and burn farming...

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“Forward” or Fore, in naval

Navy

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 terminology

Terminology

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, is an adjective

Adjective

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 or adverb

Adverb

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 meaning, towards the bow

Bow (ship)

The bow is a nautical term that refers to the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is most forward when the vessel is underway. Both of the adjectives fore and forward mean towards the bow...

 (front) of the ship

Ship

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, when the frame of reference

Frame of reference

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 is within the ship. Example: "Able Seaman Smith; lay fore!". Or; "What's happening fore?"

• The corresponding adjective
  Adjective
  In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....
  
  , in distinguishing one feature of the vessel from another is before. See the caption to the right. Its antonym is aft.
• The corresponding preposition is abforward. For example, the mizzenmast is abaft the mainmast. Its antonym
  Antonym
  In lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male : female, long : short, up : down, and precede : follow. The notion of incompatibility here refers to the fact that one word in an opposite pair entails that it is not...
  
   is after or, in a more clumsy form, aft of.

Forward, also describes the direction of movement within an aircraft

Aircraft

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; that is, towards the front. Example: "Let's go forward." It may also describe the front location or region within an aircraft cabin. Example: "Forward lavatory."

The difference of forward and bow is that forward is the inside (onboard) rearmost part of the vessel, while bow refers to outside (offboard) frontmost part of the vessel.