Definitions from Wiktionary (front)
▸ noun: The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
▸ noun: The side of a building with the main entrance.
▸ noun: A field of activity.
▸ noun: A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
▸ noun: (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
▸ noun: (military) The direction of the enemy.
▸ noun: (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
▸ noun: (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
▸ noun: (dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
▸ noun: (dated, euphemistic, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
▸ noun: (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
▸ noun: (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
▸ noun: The most conspicuous part.
▸ noun: The beginning.
▸ noun: (UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
▸ adjective: Located at or near the front.
▸ adjective: (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).
▸ adjective: 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).
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
▸ verb: (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
▸ verb: (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
▸ verb: (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
▸ verb: (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
▸ verb: (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, multiplicity) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
▸ verb: (transitive) To appear before.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone).
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▸ noun: The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
▸ noun: The side of a building with the main entrance.
▸ noun: A field of activity.
▸ noun: A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
▸ noun: (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
▸ noun: (military) The direction of the enemy.
▸ noun: (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
▸ noun: (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
▸ noun: (dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
▸ noun: (dated, euphemistic, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
▸ noun: (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
▸ noun: (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
▸ noun: The most conspicuous part.
▸ noun: The beginning.
▸ noun: (UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
▸ adjective: Located at or near the front.
▸ adjective: (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).
▸ adjective: 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).
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
▸ verb: (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
▸ verb: (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
▸ verb: (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
▸ verb: (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
▸ verb: (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, multiplicity) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
▸ verb: (transitive) To appear before.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone).
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