front
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
government
human-sciences
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meteorology
military
natural-sciences
phonetics
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politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
Inflected forms:
form: fronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: further front
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther front
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest front
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest front
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fronts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fronting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fronted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fronted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The side of a building with the main entrance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
gloss: A field of activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
gloss: A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: frontperson, frontman, front man
Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
gloss: The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
gloss: An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The direction of the enemy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Cheek; boldness; impudence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A woman's breast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
euphemistic
in-plural
uncountable
examples: […] there was one bare breast sticking out, the tip of it disappearing into Enid's father's mouth. She had told her mother about this in perfect certainty that she had seen it. She said, "One of her fronts was stuck in Daddy's mouth."
She thought—imagined, really—that her, well, that her fronts were too big. She grew up, you see, in the flapper era, when it was fashionable for women to have very flat fronts.
Turning their Backs... ON FRONTS.
CONVIVIAL WAITRESS: D... Don't you want to ogle me?
SICKO MILLENNIAL: No... I hate breasts!
gloss: An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
You don't need to put on a front. Just be yourself.
with smiling fronts encountering
The inhabitants showed a bold front.
gloss: That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
gloss: The most conspicuous part.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the very head and front of my offending
gloss: The beginning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: summer's front
So the faulty bridge was moved to the front of the song, creating in the process one of the most striking opening moments in Beatles music.
gloss: A seafront or coastal promenade.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
gloss: The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
slang
uncountable
examples: I'm saying, man, them fronts? That car? Who is you, Chiron?
gloss: Located at or near the front.
pos: adj
examples: The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
gloss: Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
gloss: Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
pos: adj
examples: Contracts are available for every month in the front year but do not extend over a year.
Contract months : March, June, September and December[.] Minimum price fluctuation : 0.005 Index Point (1/2 basis point) equivalent to USD 12.50 per tick for the front-year Eurodollar futures[…]
The contract that will expire next is called the front contract or front month contract. The other contracts are called the back contracts. In financial and industrial commodities, traders mostly trade only the front month contract.
Buying the security for the earlier (or “front”) month, and owning (and financing) it for the period ending with the latter (or “back” month) settlement date.
To a speculator, a front month future is attractive. Refer to Figure 6-1 to see that both the open interest and the trading volume of the front-month contract exceeds that of all the other contracts.
An alternative definition would estimate the slope using the front futures contract and the contract expiring 1 year after (these contracts are relatively liquid in the commodity markets).
When the back contract has a higher PVBP than the front contract, fewer back contracts need to be bought or sold than front contracts are sold or bought. The PVBP-neutral roll ratio is simply the ratio of the front and back contracts[…]
This means that in absolute terms, the number of transactions that is triggered by external sources is highest for the front contract of corn.
Going long the front futures contract and holding it a month in the example now produces a loss of $1 per barrel as the futures market converges to spot. And as long as the market is in a carry, this loss will happen continuously over[…]
gloss: To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
gloss: To face, be opposite to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
[…]down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
gloss: To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Know you not Gaueston hath store of golde,
Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends,
As he will front the mightiest of vs all,
What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune[…]; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
But Dagley immediately fronted him, and Fag at his heels growled low […].
On returning home, he fronted his servant about this grisly discovery.
gloss: To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
gloss: To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
Finally, the pretonic -e- of this *tsengòrra would have been fronted, yielding *tsingòrra.
gloss: To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, ...
A problem facing any syntactic analysis of hyperbaton is that nonconstituent strings are fronted […] In cases where the adjective is fronted with the determiner, the determiner is not doubled […]
gloss: To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
gloss: To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
gloss: Of an alter in a person with multiplicity (especially in dissociative identity disorder): to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the person's body.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Fronting can be understood as a representation of who controls the system, that is, the person to whom you are speaking. Emilia was typically the person fronting her system.
gloss: To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
gloss: To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: So when I tell people where I'm from and check their reactions, I know in my heart I'm just frontin’. Because the way and where I lived then pales when compared to the way and where many youths are living today.
What's with these homies dissin' my girl? / Why do they gotta front?
No matter how hard she fronted in the coming years, Carmiesha could never forget that she had given birth and had a child in this world. Even when she tried not to remember, she still couldn’t forget.
Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.
gloss: To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: You think that you can front when revelation comes? / You can't front on that
gloss: To appear before.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to front court
gloss: To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
gloss: Used to summon a worker on duty, such as a bellhop.
pos: intj
examples: Front, boy. Front, boy. Front, boy. Front, boy. You four boys show Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth and their seven—-or so—-Irishmen to 503, 504, 505, 506, and 507.
Harshaw yelled “Front!” again and Miriam started toward him.
Synonyms: fore
Antonyms: back
rear
derrière
last
Related words: affront
effrontery
Derived words: active front
afront
anafront
arctic front
back to front
back-to-front
battlefront
beachfront
bifront
blockfront
bowfront
breakfront
bristlefront
buttonfront
catafront
cherry blossom front
cold front
common front
company front
confront
creekfront
firefront
fly front
forefront
frontage
frontal
front and center
front and centre
front bencher
front-bencher
front bench
frontbench
front bottom
front bum
front bumper
front burner
front butt
front company
front controller pattern
frontcountry
frontcourt
front crawl
front curtain
front-desk
front desk
front door
front double biceps
front drive
front end
front-end
front-end loader
front end loader
front-end processor
front-facing
front fee
front-foot
front foot
front-footed
front foot shot
front garden
front gate
front grant
front group
front hole
frontispiece
frontless
frontlet
front lever
front-line
frontline
front line
front load
front-load
front-loaded
front loader
frontloader
front-loading
frontly
frontman
front man
front matter
front-matter
front money
frontmost
front name
frontness
front nine
front office
front-of-house
front of house
front-of-house curtain
front of mind
front of the house
frontogenesis
frontogenetic
frontolysis
front organization
frontover
front page
front-page
frontperson
front porch
front porch campaign
front projection
front projector
front range
front ring
front room
front row
front-rower
Front Royal
front run
frontrunner
front runner
front-runner
front-running
front running
front seat
frontside
front-side bus
frontsie
front slash
front squat
frontstage
front stall
front-stall
frontstretch
frontstroke
front teeth
front to back
front-toothless
front up
front vowel
front walk
front walkway
front wall
frontward
frontwards
frontways
front wheel
front-wheel drive
front wheelie
front-wheel skid
front wing
frontwise
frontwoman
front yard
froot
frunk
geofront
gust front
harborfront
harbourfront
home front
housefront
in front
in front of
in front of God and everyone
in front of one's nose
intertropical front
in the front row
jewelfront
katafront
lakefront
lead from the front
lightfront
Mach front
Marfa front
Mediterranean front
multifront
must get in front
netherfront
new-front
occluded front
oceanfront
on the front burner
on the front foot
out-front
overfront
parafront
Pareto front
polar front
popular front
punch front
put one foot in front of the other
red flag in front of a bull
refront
riverfront
seafront
sea-front
shirtfront
shirt-front
shock front
shockfront
shop front
shopfront
shorefront
shut the front door
soundfront
stationary front
storefront
stormfront
streetfront
take the front seat
time front
up-front
up-front money
up front
upfront
warfront
warm front
waterfront
wavefront
weather front
whitefront
windowfront
work front
y-front
Y-fronts
zip-front
frontfire
frontflip
front off
front on
front oneself off
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: алд
roman: ald
lang: Southern Altai
word: алдыҥы
roman: aldïŋï
lang: Arabic
word: أَمَام
roman: ʔamām
lang: Arabic
word: قدام
roman: ʔudām
lang: Arabic
word: ڭدّام
roman: gəddæm
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qabaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ön
lang: Bashkir
word: ал
roman: al
lang: Central Bikol
word: atubangan
lang: Bulgarian
word: чело́
roman: čeló
lang: Catalan
word: front
lang: Catalan
word: cara
lang: Chamicuro
word: tolo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 正面
roman: zhèngmiàn
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: aldı
lang: Czech
word: předek
lang: Danish
word: forside
lang: Danish
word: front
lang: Dutch
word: voorkant
lang: Dutch
word: voorzijde
lang: Esperanto
word: antaŭo
lang: Finnish
word: etupuoli
lang: Finnish
word: edusta
lang: Finnish
word: etuosa
lang: French
word: avant
lang: French
word: devant
lang: Galician
word: dianteira
lang: Galician
word: frente
lang: German
word: Frontseite
lang: German
word: Vorderseite
lang: Greek
word: πρόσοψη
roman: prósopsi
lang: Hungarian
word: eleje
lang: Icelandic
word: framhlið
lang: Indonesian
word: hadapan
lang: Ingrian
word: esipooli
lang: Ingrian
word: eelus
lang: Italian
word: davanti
lang: Italian
word: difronte
lang: Italian
word: avanti
lang: Italian
word: frontale
lang: Italian
word: parte anteriore
lang: Italian
word: facciata
lang: Japanese
word: 前
roman: mae
lang: Japanese
word: 前側
roman: maegawa
lang: Japanese
word: 手前
roman: temae
lang: Javanese
word: ngarep
lang: Old Javanese
word: harĕp
lang: Korean
word: 앞
roman: ap
lang: Latvian
word: priekša
lang: Latvian
word: priekšpuse
lang: Lithuanian
word: priekis
lang: Lithuanian
word: priešakys
lang: Malay
word: depan
lang: Malay
word: hadapan
lang: Māori
word: mua
lang: Maranao
word: hadap
lang: Nanai
word: дюлиэ
roman: ʒulie
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: front
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forside
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: framside
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fremside
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: front
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: framside
lang: Persian
word: جلو
roman: jelo
lang: Polish
word: przód
lang: Polish
word: front
lang: Portuguese
word: dianteira
lang: Portuguese
word: frente
lang: Russian
word: пере́дняя часть
roman: perédnjaja častʹ
lang: Russian
word: пе́ред
roman: péred
lang: Sanskrit
word: अग्र
roman: agra
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: aghaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: beulaibh
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: prědk
lang: Spanish
word: frente
lang: Spanish
word: fronte
lang: Spanish
word: parte de adelante
lang: Spanish
word: parte delantera
lang: Spanish
word: parte anterior
lang: Spanish
word: principio
lang: Swedish
word: framsida
lang: Tausug
word: harapan
lang: Thai
word: ค้านหน้า
lang: Turkish
word: ön
lang: Udmurt
word: азь
roman: aź
lang: Walloon
word: divant
lang: Zulu
word: ubuso