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1. At, near or towards the front of something.Examples: "Most of the men are sleeping forward, for it is near midnight, but a stout swarthy Arab, Mahomed by name, stands at the tiller, lazily steering by the stars."not-comparable

1. (transitive) To advance, promote.Examples: "He did all he could to forward the interests of the school."; "Mary had a suspicion that this plan had been arranged beforehand, for she knew how the lewd old woman loved to forward love affairs […]."transitive

2. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.Examples: "I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone."; "One of the most important aspects of the social service operation was the maintaining of a telephone "hot line," supposedly available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week […] This unbelievable achievement was accomplished with the expedient of "call forwarding" which made it possible for all the calls coming in to the CHAT office to be sent by means of technical magic to any other telephone in the area."Synonyms: pass ontransitive

3. (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.transitive

4. (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.Caribbeanintransitive

1. (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).

2. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.Synonyms: attacker, striker, front man

3. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.

4. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.

5. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.

6. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.Examples: "When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails."; "This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies."Internet

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.dialectalobsolete