front adj

1 relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch" [syn: front(a)] [ant: back(a)]

2 located anteriorly [syn: fore(a), front(a)]

1 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]

2 the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front end, forepart] [ant: rear]

3 the side that is seen or that goes first [ant: rear]

4 a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"

5 the line along which opposing armies face each other [syn: battlefront, front line]

6 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]

7 (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses

8 a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman]

9 the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"

10 the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage" [ant: back]

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: look, face] [ant: back]

2 confront bodily; "breast the storm" [syn: breast]

see Front

English

Etymology

From Middle English frount: forehead, brow, front

Pronunciation

• /fɹʌnt/
• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

1. The side or end of something that faces the direction it normally moves.
2. The side of a building with the main entrance.
3. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group
4. An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
5. In the context of "meteorology": The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature. Fronts receive their names from the movement of the air masses involved.
6. In the context of "meteorology": An area where masses of warm and cold air meet, often resulting in precipitation.
7. In the context of "military": The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
8. In the context of "military}} The direction of the enemy.

Front may refer to:

• The Front, a 1976 film
• The Hybrid Front, a Sega Mega Drive strategy game
• The Front (The Simpsons episode)
• Front (identity) for a blacklisted artist
• Front (magazine)
• Front (military), an area where armies are engaged in conflict
• Front (Soviet Army), a type of military formation
• Front (TO), an Italian municipality
• Front organization
• Front vowel
• Grill (jewelry)
• Ice front of a glacier
• Obverse of a coin
• Weather front
• In politics: Popular front, united front, national front

Frontal

• Frontal bone
• Frontal scale in a reptile
• Antependium, or altar frontal
• Coronal plane, or "frontal plane"

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