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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Front \Front\ (fr[u^]nt), noun [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.]
1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak.
His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior.
2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front; hence, an attitude and demeanor intended to represent one's feelings, even if not actually felt; as, to put on a good front. [1913 Webster +PJC]
With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak.
The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay.
3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak.
4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.
5. The most conspicuous part.
The very head and front of my offending. --Shak.
6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning.
7. The beginning. "Summer's front." --Shak.
8. (Fort.) All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. (Phon.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect]10. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
10. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word "front," used as an exclamation. [Hotel Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Bastioned front} (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions.
{Front door}, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance.
{Front of fortification}, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow.
{Front of operations}, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.
{To come to the front}, to attain prominence or leadership.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Front \Front\, adjective Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Front \Front\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fronted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fronting}.]
1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
You four shall front them in the narrow lane. --Shak.
[Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. --Tennyson.
3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J. Morley.
4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Front \Front\, verb (used with an object) To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adjective
1: relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch" [ant: {back(a)}]
noun
1: the side that is forward or prominent [syn: {front}, {front end}, {forepart}] [ant: {back end}, {backside}, {rear}]
2: the line along which opposing armies face each other [syn: {battlefront}, {front}, {front line}]
3: the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"
4: the side that is seen or that goes first [ant: {back}, {rear}]
5: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: {front man}, {front}, {figurehead}, {nominal head}, {straw man}, {strawman}]
6: a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"
7: (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
8: the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company" [syn: {presence}, {front}]
9: the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage" [ant: {back}, {rear}]
10: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn: {movement}, {social movement}, {front}]
verb
1: be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" [syn: {front}, {look}, {face}] [ant: {back}]
2: confront bodily; "breast the storm" [syn: {front}, {breast}]
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