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Overview of noun front

The noun front has 10 senses? (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (20) front, front end, forepart

(the side that is forward or prominent)

2. (15) battlefront, front, front line

(the line along which opposing armies face each other)

3. (2) front

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

4. (2) front

(the side that is seen or that goes first)

5. (1) front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman

(a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)

6. front

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

7. front

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

8. presence, front

(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")

9. front

(the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage")

10. movement, social movement, front

(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")

Overview of verb front

The verb front has 2 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) front, look, face

(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")

2. (2) front, breast

(confront bodily; "breast the storm")

Overview of adj front

The adj front has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (17) front

(relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch") © 2001-2013, Demand Media, all rights reserved. The database is based on Word Net a lexical database for the English language. see disclaimer
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