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US
/ˈfɹənt/
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[ UK /fɹˈʌnt/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈʌnt/ ]
NOUN
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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 - the line along which opposing armies face each other
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the outward appearance of a person
he put up a bold front -
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
he led the national liberation front
politicians have to respect a mass movement
he was a charter member of the movement - the side that is forward or prominent
- the side that is seen or that goes first
- a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
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the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
he walked to the front of the stage - (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
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a sphere of activity involving effort
they advertise on many different fronts
the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front
VERB
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confront bodily
breast the storm -
be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
My backyard look onto the pond
The building faces the park
The house looks north
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or located in the front
the front lines
the front porch
How To Use front In A Sentence
- In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
- 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. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- 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. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
- The front end of the Jaguar was on stands and two mechanics were fitting a new shock absorber. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I think it takes a lot of effrontery for the media to try to dictate the doctrine for Catholics.
- I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
- The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to testify in front of the House Budget Committee.
