Definition of Forward

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Forward

An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

Alt. of Forwards

Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.

Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.

Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.

Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.

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Forward Quotations

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Kahlil Gibran

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

Forward Translations

forward in Dutch is voorspeler, aanvaller
forward in French is acheminent, acheminer, avanten, acheminons
forward in Italian is anteriore, spedire
forward in Latin is porro, prorsus, protinus
forward in Norwegian is forrest, fremmelig, videresende, fremover
forward in Portuguese is para diante
forward in Spanish is delantero

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