| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To face or confront. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To lie. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To curtain, veil or drape. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To appear or look. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To challenge or defy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To withstand or oppose. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To preamble, preface or prelude.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb front.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (frontly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective front.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (front) |
1. Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.[Wordnet]. 2. Confront bodily.[Wordnet]. 3. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.[Websters]. 4. To appear before; to meet.[Websters]. 5. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.[Websters]. 6. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.[Websters]. 7. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.[Websters]. 8. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: fronting, fronted, fronts, fronter, fronters, frontingly and frontedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being crowning. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being opposite. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being curtained. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being apparent, evident or obvious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being leading or guiding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being galling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being ruling or governing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being veiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being slanting or sloping.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "Fronting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Environment | Usually signifies abutting, adjoining, or bordering on, depending on the context. Land abutting on a highway, river, seashore or the like. The land extending along a road, street, river, canal or ocean. The term, as used in statutes relating to assessments for improvements, indicates that there is no intervening land. See ABUT and ADJOINING. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Definition | ||
| TH fronting | Apparently, no accents with the merger completely merge the phonemes, because virtually all speakers of such accents know which words "should" have which sound; moreover, in many accents the two sounds appear in free variation. Where TH fronting is applied, pairs such as three/free, slither/sliver, and oath/oaf are homophonous. (references) | ||
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| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To face or confront.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To lie. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To curtain, veil or drape. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To appear or look. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To challenge or defy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To withstand or oppose. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To preamble, preface or prelude.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb front.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (frontly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective front.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (front) | 1. Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.[Wordnet]. 2. Confront bodily.[Wordnet]. 3. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.[Websters]. 4. To appear before; to meet.[Websters]. 5. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.[Websters]. 6. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.[Websters]. 7. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.[Websters]. 8. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: fronting, fronted, fronts, fronter, fronters, frontingly and frontedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being crowning.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being opposite. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being curtained. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being apparent, evident or obvious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being leading or guiding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being galling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being ruling or governing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being veiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being slanting or sloping.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FRONTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Environment | Usually signifies abutting, adjoining, or bordering on, depending on the context. Land abutting on a highway, river, seashore or the like. The land extending along a road, street, river, canal or ocean. The term, as used in statutes relating to assessments for improvements, indicates that there is no intervening land. See ABUT and ADJOINING. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Definition | ||
| TH fronting | Apparently, no accents with the merger completely merge the phonemes, because virtually all speakers of such accents know which words "should" have which sound; moreover, in many accents the two sounds appear in free variation. Where TH fronting is applied, pairs such as three/free, slither/sliver, and oath/oaf are homophonous. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Antarctic front | Geography | Front of great extent, of high southern latitudes, which separates relatively cold Antarctic air from relatively warm polar air, and on which waves are produced. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Arab Steadfastness Front | Public Administration | Syria, Libya, Algeria, South Yemen and the Palestine Liberation organization. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Armored front | Business | A plate or plates which is secured to the lock front of a mortised lock by machine screws in order to provide protection against tampering with the cylinder set screws. Also called armored face plate. (references) | |
| Back door cold front | Weather | 1: A front that moves east to west in direction rather than the normal west to east movement. (references) | |
| 2: A cold front moving south or southwest along the Atlantic seaboard and Great Lakes. (references) | |||
| Basic front | Mining | In granitization, an advancing zone enriched in calcium, magnesium, and iron, that is said to represent those elements in the rock being granitized that are in excess of those required to form granite. During granitization, these elements are believed to be displaced and moved through the rock ahead of the granitization front, to form a zone enriched in minerals such as hornblende and pyroxene. Syn:mafic front;magnesium front. (references) | |
| Bow-window in Front | Literature | 1: (A ) A big corporation. 2: "He was a very large man, ... with what is termed a considerable bow-window in front."- Capt. Marryat: Poor Jack, i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Climatological front | Geography | Mean or characteristic geographical position of fronts in a given region of the Earth, closely related to the mean (climatological) position of centers of action of the atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Cold front | Administration | The interface between an advancing mass of air that is colder than the one it is replacing, usually at the point of contact with the ground surface. (references) | |
| Cold front | Aerospace | An advancing edge of a cold air mass. (references) | |
| Cold front | Geography | Any non-occluded front which moves in such a way that colder air replaces warmer air. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FRONT | English | Front | Geography, Transportation | |
| FRONT | German | Wetterfront | Geography, Transportation | |
| FRONT | Italian | Fronte | Geography, Transportation | |
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