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Definition of Forward-moving
1. Adjective. Moving forward.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forward-moving
Literary usage of Forward-moving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cum-constructions: Their History and Functions by William Gardner Hale, Cornell University (1889)
"The forward-moving indicative ... The non-essential character of the
clause (semi-independent, and forward-moving) is shown by such sentences 'as vix ..."
2. An English Grammar: For Use in High and Normal Schools and in Colleges by Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup (1914)
"forward-moving CLAUSES 199. An adjective clause is sometimes so ... Some grammarians
call this a CLAUSE or ADDITION; others call it a forward-moving clause. ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"But this forward moving layer probably turns over rapidly, so that the cooler
particles which have just been torn from the solid layer while they were at ..."
4. Popular Scientific Lectures by Ernst Mach, Thomas Joseph McCormack (1898)
"A forward-moving sound-wave is not a ... mass of matter but a forward-moving form
of motion, just as.a water-wave or the waves of a field of wheat are only ..."
5. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"Again, it often happens that the velocity of the forward moving wind of a cyclone
... This is because the storm condition itself is moving forward—moving, ..."
6. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1877)
"K^o pseudopodia of any size came forth ; but there was a lobular jection, first
on one side of the forward-moving end and then on the other (fig. ..."
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