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FORWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("forward" is a kind of...):
position ((in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player)
Holonyms ("forward" is a member of...):
basketball team; five (a team that plays basketball)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("forward" is a kind of...):
basketball player; basketeer; cager (an athlete who plays basketball)
Instance hyponyms:
Dr. J; Erving; Julius Erving; Julius Winfield Erving (United States basketball forward (born in 1950))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or near or directed toward the front
Example:
forward motion
Classified under:
Similar:
full-face; gardant; guardant (looking forward)
headfirst; headlong (with the head foremost)
Also:
progressive (favoring or promoting progress)
fore (situated at or toward the bow of a vessel)
Antonym:
backward (directed or facing toward the back or rear)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
Example:
in a forward gear
Classified under:
Antonym:
reverse (of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
Example:
a forward child badly in need of discipline
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
brash; cheeky; nervy (offensively bold)
bumptious; self-assertive (offensively self-assertive)
overfamiliar (taking undue liberties)
fresh; impertinent; impudent; overbold; sassy; saucy; smart; wise (improperly forward or bold)
assuming; assumptive; presumptuous (excessively forward)
Also:
bold (fearless and daring)
Antonym:
backward ((used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature)
Derivation:
forwardness (offensive boldness and assertiveness)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Moving forward
Synonyms:
advancing; forward; forward-moving
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
progressive (favoring or promoting progress)
Derivation:
forwardness (an advanced stage)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they forward ... he / she / it forwards
Past simple: forwarded
Past participle: forwarded
-ing form: forwarding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
Example:
forward my mail
Synonyms:
forward; send on
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "forward" is one way to...):
send; ship; transport (transport commercially)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence examples:
They forward the parcel to their parents
They forward them the parcel
Derivation:
forwarding (the act of sending on to another destination)
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a forward direction
Example:
they went slowly forward in the mud
Synonyms:
ahead; forrader; forward; forwards; onward; onwards
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
At or to or toward the front
Example:
she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine
Synonyms:
forrad; forrard; forward; forwards; frontward; frontwards
Classified under:
Domain usage:
accent; dialect; idiom (the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people)
Antonym:
backward (at or to or toward the back or rear)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Toward the future; forward in time
Example:
I look forward to seeing you
Synonyms:
ahead; forward
Classified under:
Adverbs
Antonym:
backward (in or to or toward a past time)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Forward in time or order or degree
Example:
from the sixth century onward
Synonyms:
forth; forward; onward
Classified under:
Adverbs
Sense 5
Meaning:
Near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
Example:
the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments
Synonyms:
fore; forward
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
As I stood, the driver jumped again into his seat and shook the reins; the horses started forward, and trap and all disappeared down one of the dark openings.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants.
(Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel, University of Cambridge)
"It gives you that driving pulse, I think, that drives the music forward. And the woodblocks sort of do that as well," he said.
(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)
My mighty rhythm was the lift and forward plunge of a ship on the sea.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And if these results are confirmed in another setting, that would mean that it would be very reasonable … to go forward with developing perhaps a more targeted vaccine.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
Graphene promises a significant step forward in performance for the key components of telecommunications and data communications.
(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)
Fast forward 500 years, and a team of astronomers led by John Bally (University of Colorado, USA) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the heart of this cloud.
(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The same short, broad figure, the same heavy shoulders, the same forward hang of the arms, the same bristling beard merging itself in the hairy chest.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) I look forward with enjoyment to things.
(HADS - I Look Forward with Enjoyment to Things, NCI Thesaurus)
A Hidden Markov Model algorithm that calculates recursively forward along the observation sequence.
(Hidden Markov Model Forward Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)
