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Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[noun] the person who plays the position of forward on a basketball team
[adv] in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"
[adv] at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations)
[adv] toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you"
[adv] forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward"
[adv] near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments"
[adjective] moving toward a position ahead; "forward motion"; "the onward course of events"
[adjective] situated in the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"
[adjective] at or near or directed toward the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"; "a forward plunge down the stairs"; "forward motion"
[adjective] of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle; "in a forward gear"
[adjective] used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty; "a forward child badly in need of discipline"
[adjective] situated at or toward the front; "the fore cabins"; "the forward part of the ship"
[adjective] moving forward
[verb] send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail"
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\For"ward\, Forwards \For"wards\, adv. [AS. forweard, foreweard; for, fore + -weardes; akin to G. vorw["a]rts. The s is properly a genitive ending. See {For}, {Fore}, and {-ward}, {-wards}.] Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.
\For"ward\, a. 1. Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet. 2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. --Gal. ii. 10. Nor do we find him forward to be sounded. --Shak. 3. Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years. I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness. --T. Arnold. 4. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring. The most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow. --Shak.
\For"ward\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forwarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forwarding}.] 1. To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement. 2. To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
Synonyms for forward
advancing, ahead, assuming, assumptive, brash, bumptious, cheeky, first, fore, forrad, forrader, forrard, forth, forward-moving, forwards, fresh, front(a), frontward, frontwards, full-face, gardant(ip), guardant(ip), headfirst, headlong, impertinent, impudent, low, nervy, onward, onward, onwards, overbold, overfamiliar, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, second, self-assertive, send on, smart
Antonyms: abaft, aft, astern, back, backward, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards, reverse
See also: basketball player | basketball team | basketeer | bold | cager | Dr. J | Erving | five | fore(a) | Julius Erving | Julius Winfield Erving | position | progressive | send | ship | transport |
Related terms: a bit previous, actuate, advanced, bundle, bursting to, champion, conduce to, controlled, death-defying, familiar, forehand, foster, frontwards, go between, hand in, ill-considered, inquisitive, madbrained, move, pole, precocious, put forward, quicken, raise, ready and willing, reform, shameless, smart-alecky, speed along, to the fore
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Let's analyse "forward" as pure text. This string has Seven letters in Two syllables and Two vowels. 28.6% of vowels is 10% less then average English word. Written in backwards: DRAWROF. Average typing speed for these characters is 1885 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
forward: 6 + 1 = 7, reduced: 7 . and the final result is Seven. |
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