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adj
verb
- To move forwards; to approach.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
- To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
- To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
- To help the progress of (something); to further.
- To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
- To raise or increase (a price, rate).
- To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
- To increase (a number or amount).
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
noun
adv
adv
verb
adj
adj
adv
- in a forward direction
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- forward in time or order or degree
- toward the future; forward in time
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
verb
noun
- 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
adj
adj
verb
- To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
- To develop.
- To expedite.
- To improve; to become better or more complete.
noun
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
verb
verb
verb
- move towards
- come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- begin to deal with
- come near in time
- make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
noun
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- a way of entering or leaving
- the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- the event of one object coming closer to another
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- a close approximation
- a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
verb
- To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- To press together or collect in numbers
- To push, to press, to shove.
- To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- To fill by pressing or thronging together
- To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
noun
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- A fiddle.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
- To pull forward.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
adv
- Forward, straight ahead.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To press onward or forward.
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To press hard upon; to follow closely.
noun
verb
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To cause to be.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To behave, to act.
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To interpret.
- To write or compose.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
verb
- move ahead steadily
- create by hammering
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- make something, usually for a specific function
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
noun
verb
verb
- move outward
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- spread across or over
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- cover by spreading something over
- distribute over a surface in a layer
adj
- distributed or spread over a considerable extent
- prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out
- fully extended in width
noun
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- decorative cover for a bed
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
adj
verb
- bring forth
- have
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- cause to be born
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- move while holding up or supporting
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- contain or hold; have within
- bring in
- have on one's person
- behave in a certain manner
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be pregnant with
noun
verb
- bring forth
- be shown or be found to be
- prove to be in the result or end
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- result or end
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- put out or expel from a place
- come and gather for a public event
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- turn outward
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- get up and out of bed
noun
- Movement ahead or forward.
- Forward motion, or its rate.
- The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.
- A cross-heading.
- The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
- Progress toward a goal.
verb
- To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- To put spurs on.
noun
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
noun
- A significant move forward.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- A salmon ladder.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- Half a bushel.
- A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- A fault.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- A group of leopards.
verb
adj
verb
- bring about
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- be the cause or source of
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- convey or reveal information
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- organize or be responsible for
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- dedicate
- give or supply
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- leave with; give temporarily
- emit or utter
- endure the loss of
- place into the hands or custody of
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- give (as medicine)
- give or convey physically
- bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- execute and deliver
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- afford access to
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- propose
- accord by verdict
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- allow to have or take
- inflict as a punishment
- occur
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- proffer (a body part)
noun
verb
- urge forward
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- cause to move back by force or influence
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- move by being propelled by a force
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
noun
verb
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To take an academic degree.
- To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
adj
adv
- prominently forward
- before anything else
- the initial time
- before another in time, space, or importance
adj
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
noun
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the first element in a countable series
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
adj
verb
- To progress.
- To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog.
- To overtake.
- To appeal or allow to be appealed (a case) directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- To advance by engaging the enemy with one unit while another moves further forward.
noun
- The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court.
- A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.
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