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 Translation for 'ford' from English to Spanish
NOUN1   a ford | fords
NOUN2   a Ford | Fords
VERB   to ford | forded | forded
fording | fords
SYNO crossing | Edsel Bryant Ford | Ford | ...
vadear algoto ford sth.
vado {m}ford
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Translation for 'ford' from English to Spanish

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to ford sth.
vadear algo

ford
vado {m}
Usage Examples English
  • The villages name means 'Giant ford' or 'demon ford'.
  • From 1935 to 1954, Matford (Ford's French subsidiary, later renamed to 'Ford SAF') produced cars with V8 engines, closely based on contemporary American Ford models.
  • In the 20th century, the Shallow Ford became less important as newer highways bypassed the community, and it began a slow decline.
  • Tickford set up a production line in Daventry to convert the Ford Puma into the limited edition "Ford Puma Racing" (just 500 were built) and did most of the engineering design and development of the Ford Focus RS at Milton Keynes, also providing a build facility next to Ford's Saarlouis plant.
  • The villages name derives from 'bere-ford' meaning 'barley ford'.

  • The place-name means 'stony ford' from Old English "stanig" 'stony' and "ford" 'ford'. Its name was recorded as 'Stenforde' in Domesday Book in 1086 and is later recorded as 'Staneforde' in 1428.
  • In 1948, a year after Henry Ford's death, Ford was appointed to Ford Motor Company's board of directors.
  • There was a ford in Dartford in Roman times, Dartford being a conflation of Darent-ford. The ford was still in existence in 1840.
  • The name 'Yoxford' comes from Old English "geoc-ford" meaning 'yoke ford' probably indicating that the ford was wide enough for a yoke of oxen to pass through.
  • Ford links with Mathis were severed. Ford's French business was restructured in 1940, now taking the name Ford Société Anonyme Française and this company used the Ford trademark.

  • Ford is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Hispaniolan snake, "Chilabothrus fordii" (Ford's boa).
  • 1934 - Matford begins building Ford cars, but ceases in 1939. In 1947, the company is reorganized as Ford SAF and sells cars under the Ford name.
  • The Tims Ford Dam was named from an early ford crossing the Elk River near Winchester.
  • Ford and Shanks later joined the band Racoon Wedding "[...]" who perform in Brantford and Southwestern Ontario.
  • Rossford was founded as a company town by Edward Ford of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. In 1898, Ford purchased [...] along the Maumee River to build the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company.

  • The name appears as "Baseford" in the Domesday survey of 1086; Basford contains the Old English personal name "Basa", + "ford" (Old English), 'a ford', so 'Basa's ford'.
  • Shelford contains the Old English word "scelde" for shallowness; perhaps also a shallow place, + "ford" (Old English), a ford, so "Shallow ford".
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