n. | 1. | An agreement; a covenant; a promise. |
adv. | 1. | Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; - opposed to backward. |
a. | 1. | Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; |
2. | Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; too hasty. | |
3. | Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; | |
4. | Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; | |
v. t. | 1. | To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; |
2. | To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; |
(messaging) | forward - (verb) To send (a copy of) an electronic mail
message that you have received on to one or more other
addressees. Most e-mail systems can be configured to do
this automatically to all or certain messages, e.g. Unix
sendmail looks for a ".forward" file in the recipient's
home directory. A mailing list server (or "mail exploder") is designed to forward messages automatically to lists of people. Unix manual page: aliases(5). |