Forward-looking

Definition

forward / 'fↄ:wǝd / adj ၁။ (က) ေရွ႕။ forward movement. (ခ) ေရွ႕။ ဦး။ The forward part of the train is for first-class passengers only. ၂။ (အသက္အရြယ္ႏွင့္မလိုက္ေအာင္) တတ္ေသာ၊ သိေသာ။ She's very forward for her age __ she's already speaking in proper sentences. ၃။ ႀကိဳတင္ (… ေသာ)။ forward planning ❍ forward buying (ie buying goods at present prices for delivery later). ❍ FORWARD adv ၄။ ရဲတင္းလြန္းေသာ။ လက္ရဲဇက္ရဲႏိုင္ေသာ။ He's very forward with the customers and they don't like it at all. Compare BACKWARD adv ၁။ (also forwards ) ေရွ႕သို႔။ ေရွ႕က။ He leaned forwards to hear what I was saying. ❍ She took two steps forward. ❍ They ran forward to welcome her. Compare BACK v ၁ (က) ၂။ ေရွ႕သို႔။ an important step forward ❍ We are not getting any further forward with the discussion. ❍ The project will go forward (ie continue) as planned. ၃။ (က) ေရွ႕သို႔။ အနာဂတ္သို႔။ ေရွ႕ေလွ်ာက္။ from this time forward. ❍ The next scene takes the stroy forward five years. (ခ) ေရွ႕တိုး၍။ ေစာ၍။ bring the meeting forward two weeks. v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (to sb) တစ္ဆင့္ကမ္းသည္။ Please could you forward any letters (to us in Italy). ❍ I've written ‘please forward’ on the envelope. (ခ) ~ sth (to sb) ( fml ) ေပးပို႔သည္။ forward a shipment of spare parts ❍ forward a suggestion to the committee. ❍ We have today forwarded you our new catalogue. ၂။ ျမႇင့္တင္ သည္။ အားေပးသည္။ forward sb's plans/ career/ interests. See also FAST FORWARD n (ေဘာလံုး၊ ေဟာ္ကီစသည္တြင္) ေရွ႕တန္း၌ ကစားသူ။ ❍ FOOTBALL Compare BACK n ၄ See also STRIKER ၂ ❏ forwardness n [U] ရဲတင္းလြန္းျခင္း။ ❏ forwarding address n (လိပ္စာေဟာင္းတြင္ ေပးခဲ့ေသာ) လိပ္စာအသစ္။ He didn't leave a forwarding address. ❏ forward-looking adj ေျမာ္ျမင္ေသာ။ တိုးတက္ေသာ။ a young forward- looking company ❍ We need someone dynamic and forward-looking. Compare LOOK FORWARD TO STH /DOING STH

Examples

1. The car started to roll forward very slowly.
2. Suddenly the door opened
3. blocking my forward movement.
4. I reached forward to touch her hand
5. but she moved it away.
6. Let’s sit further forward so we can see the stage better.
7. The forward part of the train
8. We are looking forward to new possibilities.
9. [forward planning/thinking] : A bit more forward planning would have helped.
10. Officials concede that the way forward will not be easy.
11. A giant leap forward in computer technology
12. [no further forward] : The investigation into these allegations seems no further forward.
13. Was I being too forward when I asked to stay the weekend?