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forwards


forwards [fawr-werdz] ExamplesWord Origin adverb

  1. forward.

Origin of forwards First recorded in 1350–1400; forward + -s1 Can be confusedforeword forward forwards froward (see synonym study at forward) Related Words for forwards leading, onward, ahead, along, out, promote, uphold, transmit, express, deliver, dispatch, address, forth, progressive, progressing, anterior, advance, head, fore, front Examples from the Web for forwards Contemporary Examples of forwards

  • Their defense is lackadaisical, their forwards frequently inept.

    World Cup 2014 Nail-Biter: Host Country Brazil Defeats Chile on Penalty Kicks

    Tunku Varadarajan

    June 28, 2014

  • It can move backwards or forwards on its own power, and the men operating it can rotate it this way or that.

    Thatcher’s Economic Legacy

    Megan McArdle

    April 8, 2013

  • The avatar records the answers and forwards them to a tablet handled by one of the blue-uniformed officers.

    U.S. Tests a Lie Detector–Type Machine for Interrogations on the Mexican Border

    G. W. Schulz

    July 19, 2012

  • Kierkegaard is right: we are cursed to understand life only backwards while living it forwards.

    Hurrah for Barnes!

    Roxanne Coady

    October 18, 2011

  • The Daily Beast is the omnivorous friend who hears about the best stuff and forwards it to you with a twist.

    Q and A with Tina Brown

    The Daily Beast

    October 5, 2008

  • Historical Examples of forwards

  • Up and down, backwards and forwards, inside and out, and all hands around.

    A Woman Tenderfoot

    Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

  • There are three ways of doing this, forwards, backwards, and sideways.

    Orchesography

    John Weaver

  • To come backwards and forwards here, in the same way, for ever?’

    Little Dorrit

    Charles Dickens

  • He knew them, he would have informed you, backwards and forwards.

    The Innocent Adventuress

    Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Since 1912, our forwards have steadily deteriorated as our backs have got better and better.

    War Letters of a Public-School Boy

    Paul Jones.

  • British Dictionary definitions for forwards forwards forward adverb

    1. towards or at a place ahead or in advance, esp in space but also in time
    2. towards the front

    Word Origin and History for forwards adv.

    Middle English, from forward + 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, forward prevails in all senses since Webster (1832) damned forwards as “a corruption.”

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