different between favor vs forward

English

Alternative forms

• favour (Commonwealth, Ireland)

Etymology

From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from fave? (“to be kind to”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?fe?v?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fe?v?/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor (countable and uncountable, plural favors) (American spelling, alternative in Canada)

1. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

2. Goodwill; benevolent regard.
3. A small gift; a party favor.

   A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

   • ca. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, sc. 7:

     Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and

     stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were

     down together, I plucked this glove from his helm […]

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.

4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

   • I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence.

5. The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
6. (obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
7. (law) Partiality; bias.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

8. (archaic) A letter, a written communication.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 68:

     I will now take some notice of your last favour; but being so far behind-hand with you, must be brief.

9. (obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
10. (obsolete, in the plural) Lovelocks.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Usage notes

• Favor is the standard US spelling, and an alternative in Canada. Favour is the standard spelling in Canada and outside North America.
• English speakers usually "do someone a favor" (rather than *"make them a favor", which would be sense 3 only). See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of favor collocated with these words.

Antonyms

• disfavor
• discriminate
• discrimination
• harm
• sabotage
• unfavor

Synonyms

• aid
• help
• lend a hand
• token

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

favor (third-person singular simple present favors, present participle favoring, simple past and past participle favored) (US, alternative in Canada, transitive)

1. To look upon fondly; to prefer.
   • 1611, Luke 1:28, King James version

     And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

   • 2007, Bert Casper, Shadow Upon the Dream: Book 1: Barrûn, page 537:

     […] alone, without having to favor his right, uninjured leg, […]

2. To encourage, conduce to
3. To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

4. To treat with care.

5. (in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble, to look like (another person).
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     ‘Mandy?’ he said, and stared at the girl. ‘Don't favor her too much.’ ‘Favors her dad,’ Latha said, and looked at him.

Synonyms

• abet
• assist
• endorse
• sanction

Antonyms

• disfavor
• discriminate

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin favor, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

Noun

favor m or f (plural favors)

1. favour

Derived terms

• a favor de
• afavorir
• en favor de
• per favor

References

Further reading

• “favor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “favor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “favor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese favor.

Noun

favor

1. favour
2. pleasure

Latin

Etymology

From fave? (“I am well disposed or inclined toward, favor, countenance, befriend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.u?or/, [?fäu??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.vor/, [?f??v?r]

Noun

favor m (genitive fav?ris); third declension

1. good will, inclination, partiality, favor
2. support

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• favor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• favor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• favor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• favor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• favor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Norn

Alternative forms

• fa vor (rare)

Etymology

From Old Norse faðir (“father”) + vár (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *fad?r + *unseraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph?t?r. Compare Shetlandic fy vor.

Noun

favor

1. (Orkney) our father

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin favor.

Noun

favor f (plural favors)

1. favor

Derived terms

• favorable
• favorir
• favorisar
• favorit
• favoritisme
• favorablament
• afavorir
• en favor de
• a favor de
• per favor
• faire una favor
• dar les favors

Antonyms

• desfavor

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin favor (“favour; good will”), from fave? (“I favour”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?oweh? (“to notice”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f?.?vo?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa.?vo?/, [f?.?vo?]
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor m (plural favores)

1. favour (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
2. favour; goodwill (benevolent regard)

   Synonyms: (obsolete) favorança, graça, mercê

Derived terms

• a favor de
• em favor de
• fazer o favor de
• por favor

Related terms

Adverb

favor (not comparable)

1. (before a verb in the infinitive) please (seen on warnings and the like)

Romanian

Noun

favor n (plural favoruri)

1. Alternative form of favoare

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin favor (genitive singular fav?ris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?bo?/, [fa???o?]
• Hyphenation: fa?vor

Noun

favor m (plural favores)

1. favor/favour

Derived terms

Related terms

• favorable
• favorecer
• favoritismo
• favorito

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian favore

Noun

favor m (plural favuri)

1. favour

English

Alternative forms

• foreward (obsolete)
• forrard, forrad, forred (dialect or nautical)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.w?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??.w?d/, (nonstandard) /?fo?.w?d/, (dated) /?f???d/
• (General Australian, Estuary English, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?fo?w?d/
• (General New Zealand, unstressed) IPA^(key): /fo?d/
• Homophone: foreword
• Hyphenation: for?ward

Etymology 1

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore +? -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

Adjective

forward (comparative more forward, superlative most forward)

1. Situated toward or at the front of something.

   the forward gun in a ship, the forward ship in a fleet

   1. (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.

      The forward battalion took a hammering.

2. Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.

   My forward vision is fine, but my peripheral vision is poor.

3. Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.

   forward motion, forward thrust, forward momentum

4. (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.

   This is an important forward step for the country.

5. Having the usual order or sequence.

   The front of the fire engine has backward writing, that can be read in a mirror, as well as forward writing.

6. (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.

7. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
8. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
   • 1999:, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 44 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)

     "Would you think it forward of me to kiss you?" asked Tristran.

9. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty. [to 19th century]

   • Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

Usage notes

• The superlative forwardmost can be used for the "toward or at the front" sense. There does not appear to be a forwardmore. The comparative forwarder and superlative forwardest exist for certain senses, but are relatively uncommon.

Synonyms

• (at the front): anterior, front
• (expected in the future): forecast, predicted
• (without customary restraint): bold, fresh, impertinent, brazen

Antonyms

• (at the front): back, posterior, rear
• (expected in the future): past
• (without customary restraint): restrained

Translations

Adverb

forward (comparative further forward, superlative furthest forward)

1. At, near or towards the front of something.

   • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

   1. (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
2. In the direction in which someone or something is facing.

   I leant forward to get a better look.

   The grandfather clock toppled forward and crashed to the ground.

3. In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.

4. So that front and back are in the usual orientation.

   Don't wear your baseball cap backward; turn it forward.

5. In the usual order or sequence.

6. Into the future.
7. To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.

Synonyms

• (towards the front): forwards
• (in the usual direction of progress): ahead, forth, on, onward, onwards
• (into the future): forth, forwards, hereon, on, onward, onwards

Antonyms

• (towards the front): back, backward, backwards, rearwards
• (in the usual direction of progress): back, backward, backwards, rearwards, in reverse
• (into the future): backward, backwards, into the past
• (earlier in time): back

Hyponyms

• straightforward

Derived terms

• cab forward
• forwards (adverb)
• look forward
• look forward to

Translations

Verb

forward (third-person singular simple present forwards, present participle forwarding, simple past and past participle forwarded)

1. (transitive) To advance, promote.

   He did all he could to forward the interests of the school.

   • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 26:

     Mary had a suspicion that this plan had been arranged beforehand, for she knew how the lewd old woman loved to forward love affairs […].

2. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

   I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.

3. (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.

Synonyms

• (send (something received) on to a third party): pass on

Derived terms

• fast forward
• forwarding address
• freight forwarder
• forward contract

Descendants

• Dutch: forwarden

Translations

Noun

forward (plural forwards)

1. (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
2. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

   Synonyms: attacker, centre forward, striker

3. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
4. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
5. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
6. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
   • 2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting (page 27)

     When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.
7. (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.

   Synonym: forward contract

8. Misconstruction of foreword (“preface or introduction”).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“condition, bargain, agreement, contract, treaty, assurance”), equivalent to fore- +? ward (“ward, keeping”). Cognate with Scots forward (“covenant, compact”), Dutch voorwaarde (“condition, terms, proviso, stipulation”). More at fore-, ward.

Noun

forward (plural forwards)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.

References

• forward at OneLook Dictionary Search
• forward in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warford, froward

Czech

Alternative forms

• forvard

Etymology

Borrowed from English forward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?forvart/
• Hyphenation: for?ward

Noun

forward m anim

1. (soccer, ice hockey) forward

Declension

Derived terms

• forwardka

Noun

forward m inan

1. (soccer, ice hockey) forward line
2. (business) forward contract

Declension

Synonyms

• (sport): útok, ofenziva
• (contract): forwardový kontrakt

Antonyms

• (sport): obrana

Derived terms

• forwardový

Further reading

• forward in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

forward

1. Alternative form of foreward

Adverb

forward

1. Alternative form of foreward

Etymology 2

Noun

forward (plural forwards)

1. Alternative form of foreward

Etymology 3

Noun

forward (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of forwird