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Forward can be an adjective, a verb, an adverb or a noun.
forward used as an adjective:
- Towards the front or at the front.
"The fire was confined to the forward portion of the store." - Without customary restraint
"I thought his suggestion that we move in together was rather forward." - Expected in the future.
"The stock price is currently 12 times forward earnings."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
forward used as a verb:
- To send (something received) to a third party.
"I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
forward used as an adverb:
- Towards the front or from the front.
"The bus driver told everyone standing up to move forward." - In the usual direction of travel.
"After spending an hour stuck in the mud, we could once again move forward." - Into the future.
"From this day forward, there will be no more brussels sprouts at the cafeteria."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
forward used as a noun:
- one of the eight players whose primary task is to maintain possession of the ball (compare back)
- 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.
- An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- The small forward or power forward position.
- The front part of a vessel.
- An e-mail message designed to be forwarded to many people; an electronic chain letter.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is forward?
- Adjective usage: The fire was confined to the forward portion of the store.
- Adjective usage: I thought his suggestion that we move in together was rather forward.
- Adjective usage: 1999: "Would you think it forward of me to kiss you?" asked Tristran. — Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 44 (2001 Perennial paperback edition).
- Adjective usage: The stock price is currently 12 times forward earnings.
- Verb usage: I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.
- Adverb usage: The bus driver told everyone standing up to move forward.
- Adverb usage: After spending an hour stuck in the mud, we could once again move forward.
- Adverb usage: From this day forward, there will be no more brussels sprouts at the cafeteria.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of forward are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of forward, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
