forth
fɔːrθ
The word for stepping out where everyone can see
The picture What was behind or inside moves out to the front, where everyone can see it. FORTH moves out and forward, BACK goes right back to where it was.
Where the picture shows up in forth
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a person stepping out
Please come forth when your name is called.
pliːz kʌm fɔːrθ wen jʊr neɪm ɪz kɔːld
Come up front when your name is called.
one person slips out of a long queue and stands in front of the desk
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bringing something out
The company put forth a new plan.
ðə ˈkʌmpəni pʊt fɔːrθ ə nuː plæn
The company offered a new plan.
a paper from a closed drawer slides out into the middle of the meeting table
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more coming out (and so on)
We sell bread, cakes, and so forth.
wiː sel bred keɪks ənd soʊ fɔːrθ
We sell bread, cakes and so on.
items keep coming forward off the display shelf and trail off into dots
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out and back, over and over
She walked back and forth in the hallway.
ʃiː wɔːkt bæk ənd fɔːrθ ɪn ðə ˈhɔːlweɪ
She paced up and down the hallway.
the same path in the hall is stamped over and over with footprints going both ways
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forward from that day
From that day forth, he never smoked again.
frʌm ðæt deɪ fɔːrθ hiː ˈnevər smoʊkt əˈɡen
From that day on he never smoked again.
an arrow runs out of one date on the calendar and only ever forward
All of it in one picture
forth is an arrow coming out and forward. A person leaves the queue and steps up front; a plan leaves the drawer and is put on the table; items keep coming out one after another and you get and so on. Out and back over and over is pacing, and going forward from one day on is from that day onward.