front vs rear

Definitions

noun

1. the immediate proximity of someone or something
2. the line along which opposing armies face each other
3. the outward appearance of a person
4. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
5. the side that is forward or prominent

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verb

1. confront bodily
2. be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to

adjective

1. relating to or located in the front

Examples

In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally.

Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.

Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

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Definitions

verb

1. rise up
2. look after a child until it is an adult
3. construct, build, or erect
4. stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
5. cause to rise up

noun

1. the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
2. the back of a military formation or procession
3. the side that goes last or is not normally seen
4. the side of an object that is opposite its front
5. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

adjective

1. located in or toward the back or rear

Examples

I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others.

Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower.

A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?

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