American English pronunciation
How to pronounce forward
IPA transcription: ['fɔɹwɚd]
Pronunciation variants: ['fɔɹwɚd]['fɚwɚd]
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Noun
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the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
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a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
Verb
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send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
“forward my mail”
Adjective
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at or near or directed toward the front
“the forward section of the aircraft”
“a forward plunge down the stairs”
“forward motion”
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used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
“a forward child badly in need of discipline”
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of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
“in a forward gear”
Adjective
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moving forward
Adverb
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at or to or toward the front; ; ; ; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations)
“he faced forward”
“step forward”
“she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine”
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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”
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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”
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forward in time or order or degree
“from that time forth”
“from the sixth century onward”
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near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
“the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments”
Usage examples
- We need to look further forward than the near-term goals
- He looked forward to re-establishing consensus in the committee stage.
- Cube maps provide a fairly straightforward and efficient solution to rendering stable specular highlights.
- Forward contracts can be used to hedge or cover exposure to foreign exchange risk.
- This allows remote hosts to connect to local forwarded ports.
- He heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so.
- Peckford announced that Newfoundland would forward a proposal the next day.
- With cross-compliance, the latter distinguished themselves and were put forward.
- It's pretty straightforward, isn't it?
- I also use standard port forwarding when I want to expose servers running on my Linux machine.