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Forwards

adverb

1.

At or to or toward the front. Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, frontward, frontwards. "Step forward" , "She practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine" Antonym: backward.

2.

In a forward direction. Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, onward, onwards. "The train moved ahead slowly" , "The boat lurched ahead" , "Moved onward into the forest" , "They went slowly forward in the mud"

Forward

noun

1.

The person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey.

2.

A position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team.

verb

(past & past part. forwarded; pres. part. forwarding)

1.

Send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit. Synonym: send on.

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"Forwards" Quotes from Famous Books

... they made was like to make her head run round. "Splash! splash! Whirr! whirr! Clack! clack!" The water in the pot bubbled over. The spinning-wheel whirred. The shuttle in the loom flew backwards and forwards. ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... of a Christian Church. In Paradise it may have been right to be at rest, to desire no change, but ever since the Fall every system that tends to check the onward progress of mankind is fatally, radically, curelessly wrong. The motto on every Christian banner is "Forwards." There is no resting in the present, ...

— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson

... Rowland, his stiff short figure carefully dressed in a suit of brown camlet, his fair wig very carefully curled, occupied a tall-backed armchair near the empty fireplace. Richard, perched on the table's edge, swung his shapely legs idly backwards and forwards and cogitated upon a pretext to call for a morning draught ...

— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini

... others by a machine which is a hollow cylinder or frustum of a cone, formed of heavy wood, placed upon a solid block of the same diameter, the contiguous surfaces of each being previously cut in notches or small grooves, and worked backwards and forwards horizontally by two handles or transverse arms; a spindle fixed in the centre of the lower cylinder serving as an axis to the upper or hollow one. Into this the grain is poured, and it is thus made to perform the office of the hopper at the same time with that of the upper, or movable ...

— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... before the entrance; but these were but a weak defence against a furious and probably famished animal; and if he even did no other harm to my children, I was sure their terror at the sight of him would kill them. I paced backwards and forwards, from the entrance to the bed, in the darkness, envying the dear sleepers their calm and fearless rest; the dark-skinned baby slept soundly, nestled warmly between my daughters, till day broke at last, without anything terrible occurring. Then my little people awoke, and ...

— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss

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