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forward - a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team |
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position the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
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basketball team,
five a team that plays basketball
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forward - the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey |
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basketball player,
basketeer,
cager an athlete who plays basketball
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| Verb |
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forward - send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail" |
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send,
ship,
transport transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"
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| Adjektiv |
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forward - used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty; "a forward child badly in need of discipline" |
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backward directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"
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bold fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
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brash,
cheeky,
nervy offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"
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bumptious,
self-assertive offensively self-assertive
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overfamiliar taking undue liberties; "young women disliked the overfamiliar tone he took with them"
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fresh,
impertinent,
impudent,
overbold,
sassy,
saucy,
smart,
wise improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
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assuming,
assumptive,
presumptuous accepted as real or true without proof; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"
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forward - 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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backward directed or facing toward the back or rear; "a backward view"
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fore
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progressive advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"
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full-face,
gardant
guardant
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headfirst,
headlong with the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool"
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forward - of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle; "in a forward gear" |
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reverse of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle; "in reverse gear"
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| Adverb |
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forward - 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) |
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forwards,
frontward,
frontwards,
forrad,
forrard |
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accent,
dialect,
idiom a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
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back,
backward,
backwards,
rearward,
rearwards in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
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