forward movement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofforwardandmovement
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forward
adjective
uk/ˈfɔː.wəd/us/ˈfɔːr.wɚd/
towards the direction that is in front ...
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movement
noun
uk/ˈmuːv.mənt/us/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition offorwardandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofforward movement
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In the child's sign, only theforwardmovementis retained.
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We refer to clockwise movement as theforwardmovementof a variable.
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They have stood in the way of theirforwardmovementfrom colonial status to freedom.
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Adoption of new terms, structured to invoke such (conjectured)forwardmovement, mandated remaining in the speculative realm of hypotheses.
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Aliquots containing spermatozoa with 80% motility and rapid, linearforwardmovementwere used for the fertilisation trials.
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Furthermore, theforwardmovementof a leg with respect to the robot body is inexecutable with a locked joint.
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Apparently theforwardmovementhas disappeared.
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We imagine that waiting is a state of suspension, of inactivity, a state of physical inactivity and lack offorwardmovement.
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This bar seems to halt allforwardmovement: it stands suspended, as if in a moment of self-consciousness or introspection.
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A slowforwardmovementof people would involve the emergence of one linguistic subgroup after another in a constant chain-like movement.
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By rewarding bothforwardmovementand the correct responses to left and right whisker stimuli, rats can be steered through a slalom or obstacle course.
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The important formal divisions that arrest the dynamicforwardmovementare, therefore, in the first instance climaxes or turns in the story.
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Aforwardmovementof some sort must be made.
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It would make aforwardmovementof real energy.
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Is it to discourage employers from thisforwardmovement?
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It is theforwardmovementof the times.
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Apparently, one of the incidents was "noforwardmovement" on the train.
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I believe the time is ripe for a bigforwardmovementin this country.
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It would make aforwardmovementof real power of real energy.
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That is the hard lot of anyone who makes aforwardmovement.
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Such aforwardmovementhas never been seen in the history of public education before.
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It would be an irritant upon this greatforwardmovementwhich we are asked to admire.
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I do not feel at all pessimistic about the prospects of someforwardmovement.
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It suggests that the need of aforwardmovementis as great as ever.
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