Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective At, near, or belonging to the front or forepart; fore.
- adjective Located ahead or in advance.
- adjective Going, tending, or moving toward a position in front.
- adjective Sports Advancing toward an opponent's goal.
- adjective Moving in a prescribed direction or order for normal use.
- adjective Ardently inclined; eager.
- adjective Lacking restraint or modesty; presumptuous or bold.
- adjective Being ahead of current economic, political, or technological trends; progressive.
- adjective Deviating radically from convention or tradition; extreme.
- adjective Exceptionally advanced; precocious.
- adjective Of, relating to, or done in preparation for the future.
- adverb Toward or tending to the front; frontward.
- adverb Into consideration.
- adverb In or toward the future.
- adverb In the prescribed direction or sequence for normal use.
- adverb In an advanced position or a configuration registering a future time.
- adverb At or to a different time; earlier or later.
- noun A player in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey, who is part of the forward line of the offense.
- noun The position played by such a person.
- transitive verb To send on to a subsequent destination or address. synonym: send.
- transitive verb To help advance; promote. synonym: advance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward a part, place, or point of time before or in advance; onward: with reference either to motion or to position: opposed to backward.
- With advancing steps; with good progress.
- Toward the terminal point.
- noun Agreement; covenant.
- Situated in the front or fore part; anterior; fore; directed toward some point or position in advance from the starting-point: as, a forward cabin in a ship; the forward movement of an army.
- Being in a condition of advancement; well advanced with respect to progress, attainment, development (as the season), growth (as vegetation), or (rarely) position or rank: as, the building is in a forward state; he is forward in his studies; a forward crop.
- Ready in action or disposition; prompt; earnest; also, in a derogatory sense, over-confident; assuming; presumptuous; pert; as, to be forward in good works; a forward chit.
- Foremost.
- Synonyms Willing, zealous; presuming, presumptuous, impertinent.
- To send forward; send toward the place of destination; transmit: as, to
forward a letter or despatches. - To advance; help onward; promote; further; encourage: as, to
forward the growth of a plant. - In bookbinding, to fit (a book) with back and covers, and prepare it for the finisher.
- In cricket, in front of the batsman's wicket: said of a fielder's position.
- noun In foot-ball, basket-ball, and other games, a player in the front line of the team.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
- adverb Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to
backward . - adjective Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else.
- adjective Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too hasty.
- adjective Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident.
- adjective Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season
- transitive verb To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten
- transitive verb To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agreement ;covenant . - adjective Toward the front or at the front.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We now look forward to the latter part of the present campaign for the World Cup in 2010 and certainly look forward to the
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A boy, they believe, will be able to look after them in old age, he will carry the name forward of the family - and that's very, very important to Indian families.
Researchers: Indians Increasingly Use Abortion to Ensure Male Child
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When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again.
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When he was deputy mayor of the eastern port of Xiamen, he put his name forward as a candidate to be promoted for mayor—without the approval of the party leadership, according to people who knew him at the time.
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While Grant may rue the missed opportunity, perhaps he should think of putting his name forward for a different gong – Fleet Street's scoop of the year.
Rebekah Brooks in firing line as phone-hacking scandal refuses to go away
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When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again.
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Glendening D, first successfully put her name forward for the job 10 years ago.
No objections raised as Judge O'Malley appears before Md. Senate panel
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In 1817 he retired to Dublin, where in 1818 he put his name forward for the vacant Catholic archbishopric of Armagh and was astonished when the pope said yes.
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In 1817 he retired to Dublin, where in 1818 he put his name forward for the vacant Catholic archbishopric of Armagh and was astonished when the pope said yes.
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Following the events I will refer to only as The Monica Aspel Debacle, and with no Ginny Pascoe around with whom to find comfort, I decided at the age of twenty-seven that enough was enough and put my name forward for a transfer from the London office of C-Tec to its New York base.
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