Mots en English pour 'offensively self-assertive'
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- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- To walk with a swaying motion.
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
adj
noun
verb
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- make violent, noisy movements
- dash a liquid upon or against
- show off
- (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (ambitransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- To streak, to color in a swash.
noun
- the movement or sound of water
- A swishing noise.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A streak or patch.
- (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- expressing offensive reproach
- characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
noun
- Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
- Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness.
- Ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness. (of a plant)
- the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
noun
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- (Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.
- (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
- (informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
noun
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- informal terms for the nose
- (informal) An elitist or snobbish person.
- A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
- (dialectal or slang, chiefly derogatory) A nose or snout.
- (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
- (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
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noun
verb
adj
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
noun
verb
verb
noun
- (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
- (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
- (mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
noun
- an arrogant or presumptuous person
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- The meadow saffron.
- One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
adj
verb
noun
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- the act of assuming or taking for granted
- the act of taking possession of or power over something
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
- a hypothesis that is taken for granted
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- (rhetoric) Assumptio.
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
noun
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
- The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
- The act of presuming, or something presumed.
- The condition upon which something is presumed.
- (law) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.
adj
- Extremely proud or arrogant.
- (slang) Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.
- (usually followed by up) Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, dialectal) Swollen, enlarged.
- Full (of something); bursting with.
- (slang) Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.
- Extremely muscled
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noun
adj
verb
verb
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
adj
noun
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
verb
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- (transitive, idiomatic) To exhibit the best attributes of something.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism.
noun
adj
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
noun
- (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).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
noun
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.
- Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example
- Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory.
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
- An unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, or looks, wealth, importance, etc., which comes across as being haughty, lofty, and often showing contempt of others; exaggerated self-worth.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
- (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
- A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
- satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
- the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- a group of lions
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
- Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calamity; intrepidness.
- Ability to withstand extreme conditions, hardiness. (of a plant)
- the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
noun
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- (Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.
- (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
- (informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
noun
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- informal terms for the nose
- (informal) An elitist or snobbish person.
- A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
- (dialectal or slang, chiefly derogatory) A nose or snout.
- (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
- (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- an arrogant or presumptuous person
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- The meadow saffron.
- One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
adj
verb
noun
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- the act of assuming or taking for granted
- the act of taking possession of or power over something
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
- a hypothesis that is taken for granted
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- (rhetoric) Assumptio.
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
noun
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
- The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
- The act of presuming, or something presumed.
- The condition upon which something is presumed.
- (law) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.
- Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example
- Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory.
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
- An unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, or looks, wealth, importance, etc., which comes across as being haughty, lofty, and often showing contempt of others; exaggerated self-worth.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
- (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
- A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
- satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
- the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- a group of lions
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
verb
verb
noun
verb
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- To walk with a swaying motion.
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
adj
noun
verb
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- make violent, noisy movements
- dash a liquid upon or against
- show off
- (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (ambitransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- To streak, to color in a swash.
noun
- the movement or sound of water
- A swishing noise.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A streak or patch.
- (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
adj
noun
verb
verb
noun
- (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
- (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
- (mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
verb
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
adj
noun
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
verb
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- (transitive, idiomatic) To exhibit the best attributes of something.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To attract attention to for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism; to demonstrate a skill, talent or property for the purpose of bragging or personal exhibitionism.
noun
adj
noun
adj
- expressing offensive reproach
- characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
adj
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
noun
verb
adj
- Extremely proud or arrogant.
- (slang) Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.
- (usually followed by up) Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, dialectal) Swollen, enlarged.
- Full (of something); bursting with.
- (slang) Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.
- Extremely muscled
verb
adj
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
noun
- (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).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit