Usually means: Boundary between different air masses.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. front: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. front: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. front, front: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. front, front: Collins English Dictionary
  5. front: Vocabulary.com
  6. Front, front: Wordnik
  7. Front, front: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. front: Wiktionary
  9. front: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. front: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. front: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. front, front: Dictionary.com
  13. front: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. front: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Front (Soviet Army), Front (disambiguation), Front (identity), Front (magazine), Front (meteorology), Front (military), Front (military formation), Front (oceanography), Front (weather), Front, The Front (Canadian band), The Front (The Blacklist), The Front (The Simpsons), The Front (band), The Front: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Front: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. front: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. front: Rhymezone
  19. Front (f), front, front (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. front: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. front: Free Dictionary
  22. front: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. front, front: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. front: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. front-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. front: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. front: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. front, front-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. FRONT: Acronym Finder
  3. front: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. front, front, front, front, front, front, front, front: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See fronted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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:  (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:  (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.
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.

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