front
IPA: frˈʌnt
noun
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- A field of activity.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- (meteorology) 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.
- (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- (military) The direction of the enemy.
- (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- (dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
- (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The most conspicuous part.
- The beginning.
- (UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
- (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
- (slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
- (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
verb
- (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
- (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
- (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- (transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- (transitive) To appear before.
adjective
- Located at or near the front.
- (comparable, phonetics) 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).
- 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).
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Examples of "front" in Sentences
- The hen positions in front of the file of chickens.
- The cockpit was at the front of the first bulkhead.
- The backplane was positioned in front of an assembler.
- The stellate ganglion lies in front of the neck of the first rib.
- The first bomb landed among the horsemen in front of the carriage.
- He was the last veteran of the Alpine Front in the First World War.
- The porch juts forward in front of the door with an additional pediment.
- The plate's back margin is level with the front of the first upper molar.
- The gutter can pivot about the front end of the link to an inverted position.
- The pistol was depicted on the front cover of the first edition of the novel.