(a.) 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.
(a.) Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(5) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(6) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(7) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(8) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(9) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
(10) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
(11) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(12) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
(13) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(14) The M(r) values for all fractions and the relative electrophoretic mobility in the forward direction were determined.
(15) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(16) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
(17) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(18) By using increased feed-forward gain in a sampled-data control model we simulated the pattern of macrosaccadic oscillation.
(19) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(20) This workshop highlighted the progress that has been made since 1909, the year that Ignatowski put forward that animal proteins in the diet can induce atherosclerosis in rabbits.
Parlay
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That winning year at Wimbledon he bet on himself, parlaying $500 into $105,000.
(2) Djokovic is hiding his problems better, but they're still visible in his tennis, as he parlays advantage into break point with a couple of unforced errors before lashing a crosscourt backhand wide – way wide – to relinquish control of the set and match.
(3) The measures ultimately passed, but the 51-year-old state senator from Fort Worth parlayed the national attention and local momentum into the Democratic nomination in a state where the party has not won a statewide election since 1994.
(4) But now they have another free kick in a more advanced position, which they parlay into a corner via another set of tussles.
(5) Footballers have a relatively short shelf-life, and while some of them successfully parlay their time on the pitch into presenting or punditry, others struggle.
(6) Could he parlay some of that coolness into his choice of film projects?
(7) Similarly, in Oregon, a man named Yonas Fikre is suing the government for allegedly attempting to parlay his no-fly list placement into getting him to infiltrate a prominent Portland mosque.
(8) Only the most spectacular of collapses, parlayed with the most unlikely bursts of success for a gaggle of flawed pursuers, would prevent it.
(9) With him goes another connection to the pre-early MLS era of “lost generation” US players, who parlayed often modest talents into European careers whose obscure starts would be unrecognizable to, say, DeAndre Yedlin.
(10) As Gabrielle puts it in the book: “Nick had no outer skin; no defences with which to parlay.” That image of Nick Drake as too beautiful for this world (like the Van Gogh of Don McLean’s song Starry Starry Night) has proved enduring even if, as Gabrielle tells me, it misses the stubbornness and steel of her brother: “I used to find him incredibly frustrating, obstinate and difficult, but I cannot remember ever not loving him or not admiring him,” she says.
(11) The extra money earned has been parlayed into bolstering their own reserves, and the development of both women’s cricket and disability cricket, both of which are as healthy in this country now, eight years later, as they have been at any point in their history.
(12) But parlaying these advantages into physician loyalty to the system is difficult.
(13) With this as his stake money, he parlayed his way into a takeover of the Golden Nugget casino, then in old, unworldly hands.
(14) They parlay it into a free kick on a foul on Nagbe.Johnson will curl it in from near the left corner of the box... 4.47am GMT 22 mins Free kick for Portland inside the Sounders half.
(15) He parlayed the global success of the music he had helped invent into a high-profile remixing career – Madonna and Michael Jackson were clients, his astonishing reworking of Sounds Of Blackness' 1992 single The Pressure was the perfect example of what he could do – but stopped making records altogether in the late 90s, fearing his style of music had become outmoded in an era of hard house and trance, and had to have his foot amputated in 2008 following a snowboarding accident.
(16) "For some, of course, the licence fee settlement was a nasty surprise, because they had hoped that a 2011 licence fee negotiation could have been parlayed into a root-and-branch debate about what the BBC should and shouldn't do and about whether the licence fee should exist at all," Thompson said.
(17) He was thwarted in his attempt to parlay a 25% shareholding in Telewest into the UK's biggest cable company by snapping up NTL.
(18) And here's me trying to avoid parlaying that into a Ronnie gag.
(19) Standups usually save their best till last; they end on a zinger, and parlay that laugh into a euphoric, valedictory round of applause.
(20) Rather than achieving fame off the back of hundreds of shitty club gigs, he made his name thanks to a stream of wildly popular tweets, and has parlayed that into a successful live career.