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a position on a basketball team the person who plays the position of forward on a basketball team send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail" moving toward a position ahead; "forward motion"; "the onward course of events" advancing situated in the front; "the forward section of the aircraft" front(a) at or near or directed toward the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"; "a forward plunge down the stairs"; "forward motion" guardant(ip), headfirst of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle; "in a forward gear" first, second used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty; "a forward child badly in need of discipline" brash, bumptious, fresh, overfamiliar, assumptive situated at or toward the front; "the fore cabins"; "the forward part of the ship" fore(a) 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) moving forward progressive 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" forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward" near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments" 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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