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forwards
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Word definitions for forwards in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forwards \For"wards\, adv. Same as Forward .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from forward (adv.) + adverbial genitive -s . British English until mid-20c. preserved the distinction between forward and forwards , the latter expressing "a definite direction viewed in contrast with other directions." In American English, however, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 adv. 1 toward the front. 2 In a progressive direction. Etymology 2 vb. (en-third-person singular of: forward ) Etymology 3 n. (plural of forward English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. 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) [syn: forward , frontward , frontwards , forrad , forrard ...
Usage examples of forwards.
Amid rain and mist the British columns were pushing rapidly forwards, but still the burghers held together, and still their artillery was uncaptured.
The process of attrition went very steadily forwards, and each of the British columns returned its constant tale of prisoners.
The same afternoon I descried the venerable warrior approaching the house, with a slow, stately gait, ear-rings in ears, and spear in hand, with this highly ornamental pair of shoes suspended from his neck by a strip of bark, and swinging backwards and forwards on his capacious chest.
For a while the liburnian seemed to list, motionless, and then a gust of wind propelled them forwards.
They did no more here than call upon a few serious persons in the city, and then went forwards to Neuwied, hoping there to hear of them.
Then he pulls one towards him and opens it, and begins to study it--turning over the leaves backwards and forwards.
He sets to work at once, sells a number of tickets, and forwards the proceeds to his principals in New York.
The pinnae move forwards and at the same time sink downwards, whilst the main petiole rises considerably.
Emmanuel also, when he had thus set forwards to go to recover the town of Mansoul, took with him, at the commandment of his Father, fifty-four battering-rams, and twelve slings to whirl stones withal.
The Duke paced backwards and forwards with brows drawn down, muttering all this to himself rather than to me, and shaking his head like one in the sorest perplexity.
Beaulieu reached forwards to hold a hose over the top of the submunitions chamber.
Miller lowered her to the boat, and then he and Tammany helped Carver forwards, lifted him in after her.
They brought the Fram backwards and forwards, twice each way, through those ice-filled southern waters that many experts even held to be so dangerous that the Fram would not be able to come through them, and on both trips this was done with the speed and punctuality of a ship on her regular route.
On one of these for a while Ferdinand Lopez walked backwards and forwards as though waiting for the coming of some especial train.
They travel thousands of miles, have their annual migrations backwards and forwards, and never miss the best and shortest route.