forward
1. the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
• Hypernyms:
basketball player, basketeer, cager
• Instance Hyponyms:
Erving, Julius Erving, Julius Winfield Erving, Dr. J
2. a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
• Hypernyms:
position
• Member Holonyms:
basketball team, five
send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit (Freq. 3)
- forward my mail
• Syn:
send on
• Derivationally related forms:
forwarding
• Hypernyms:
transport, send, ship
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- They forward the parcel to their parents
- They forward them the parcel
1. at or near or directed toward the front (Freq. 8)
- the forward section of the aircraft
- a forward plunge down the stairs
- forward motion
• Ant:
backward
• Similar to:
guardant, gardant, full-face, headfirst, headlong
• See Also:
fore, progressive
2. used of temperament or behavior;
lacking restraint or modesty
- a forward child badly in need of discipline
• Ant:
backward
• Similar to:
brash, cheeky, nervy, bumptious, self-assertive,
overfamiliar, fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart,
saucy, sassy, wise, assumptive, assuming, presumptuous
• See Also:
bold
• Derivationally related forms:
forwardness
3. of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
- in a forward gear
• Ant:
reverse
4. moving forward
• Syn:
advancing, forward-moving
• Similar to:
progressive
• Derivationally related forms:
forwardness
1. at or to or toward the front (Freq. 53)
- he faced forward
- step forward
- she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine
('forrad' and 'forrard' are dialectal variations)
• Syn:
forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard
• Ant:
backward
• Usage Domain:
dialect, idiom, accent
2. forward in time or order or degree (Freq. 5)
- from that time forth
- from the sixth century onward
• Syn:
forth, onward
3. toward the future;
forward in time (Freq. 3)
- I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring
- I look forward to seeing you
• Syn:
ahead
• Ant:
backward, back (for: ahead)
4. in a forward direction (Freq. 3)
- go ahead
- the train moved ahead slowly
- the boat lurched ahead
- moved onward into the forest
- they went slowly forward in the mud
• Syn:
ahead, onward, onwards, forwards, forrader
5. near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments
• Syn:
fore
• Ant:
aft (for: fore)
|
|
