Definitions for to-and-fros

to-and-fros to-and-fro

Spelling: [too-uh n-froh]
IPA: /ˈtu ənˈfroʊ/

To-And-Fros is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 2 points.

You can make 444 anagrams from letters in to-and-fros (--adfnoorst).

Definitions for to-and-fros

noun

  1. a continuous or regular movement backward and forward; an alternating movement, flux, flow, etc.:

adjective

  1. back-and-forth:

Origin of to-and-fros

First recorded in 1820-30; adj. and noun use of adv. phrase to and (fro) ( def 2 )

Examples for to-and-fros

The stirrup now performs a to-and-fro movement at the oval window, passing the auditory impulse inwards to the internal ear.

We will suppose our pendulum to execute one to-and-fro movement in a second.

What is that to-and-fro between one who knows and one who does not?

Both the milk and the water chambers were provided with mechanical agitators having a to-and-fro movement.

After a few hours of to-and-fro with his commander, the squad was given permission to do what they wanted with him.

With this was sent a whip, thus establishing a to-and-fro communication.

Then suddenly upon this long period of to-and-fro, there fell (as it were) the very calmness of reconciliation.

Back again he came, to-and-fro like the pendulum of a clock.

The to-and-fro movement of the slide is effected in the following manner.

This advance from to-and-fro to rotary action extended irresistibly to steam as a motive power.

Word Value for to-and-fros
Scrable

2

Words with friends

2

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