(firearms) A button on certain rifles that pushes the bolt carrier forward, ensuring that the bolt is locked.

The transfer function of the forward path of a control system

(idiomatic, transitive)To change the time in a time zone to a later time.

(American football) Any kick made from in front of the line of scrimmage. This results in a loss of down and a ten yard penalty.

(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).

plural of forward transfer function

plural of illegal forward kick

plural of forward time machine

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the future, but cannot also allow travel to the past.

(UK, typically in the negative) shy; reluctant to share one's views