Word Finder - fronting

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To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.

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To face, be opposite to.

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To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.

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To adorn the front of; to put on the front.

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To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.

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To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.

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To act as a front (for); to cover (for).

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To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).

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To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.

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To assume false or disingenuous appearances.

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To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).

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To appear before.

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to front court

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A process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.

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A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word.

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An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language.

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The movement of a word of phrase to nearer the beginning of a sentence or clause than it would usually appear, often for emphasis. May also occur as part of the standard syntax of particular constructions (e.g. wh-fronting).

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An act of putting on a false façade to impress people.

Its finest portion is the Chelsea Embankment, fronting Battersea Park across the river, shaded by a pleasant avenue and lined with handsome houses.

The new buildings of Marischal College fronting Broad Street, opened by King Edward VII.

There still remains close to the first-named street and fronting the Corso Garibaldi a high wall built of square Roman bricks, with pillars and arched recesses in the upper portion, which goes by the name of Palazzo di Teodorico.

At a cost of $5,000,000 a new medical school, hospital and children's hospital, occupying several city blocks fronting on Forest Park, have been completed since 1911.

The approach to the grotto lay through a portico on the level with and fronting the street, and a pronaos, in communication with which was a kind of sacristy.

Pietro e Cesareo, fronting upon it, is ensconced in.a temple of Rome and Augustus, part of the side wall of which, with engaged columns, is still visible.

This was deflected by Kitchener westward to follow up the Boer rearguard, and after some delay the remainder of the infantry, at first fronting northwards, swerved westward likewise, while French from Kimberley, with such of his men as he could mount on serviceable horses, headed off Cronje in the north-west.

Those to the east are 'Uyun Urghush, Makmal, Muskiyya (or Naba' esh-Shemaila) and Ras Zahr el-Kazib; fronting the sea are Kam Sauda or Timarun, Fumm el-Mizab and Zahr el-Kandil.

Thus Long Island (fronting Connecticut, but belonging to New York state), Block Island (part of the small state of Rhode Island), Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket (parts of Massachusetts) may be best explained.

Its haffs fronting the mouths of the large rivers must be regarded as lagoons or extensions of the river beds, not as bays.

The Palazzo Municipale, built by Rocco Lurago at the end of the 16th century, once the property of the dukes of Turin, has a beautiful entrance court and a hanging terraced garden fronting a noble staircase of marble which leads to the spacious council chamber.

The first is commanded by King John's Castle, on King's Island, a fine Norman fortress fronting the river, and used as barracks.

All these splendid structures, fronting one of the main streets in succession, form, even without the abbey church, a remarkable memorial of the wealth of the foundation.

Later again the Americans established themselves on the other side of the Suchow creek, on a piece of land fronting on the river, which there makes a sharp turn in an easterly direction.

Lee broken mikes fronting slack Punk they cut a smile into our faces with still half an audience resisting arrest.

Iâd like to hear Calhoun fronting a full band, especially bearing in mind his vocal pyrotechnics at the close.

Still fronting the lane, this is a very shady corner with some tall sheltering trees.

The land is fronting Lodge lane and has a southerly facing rear aspect.

I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.

It kinda reminds me of William Burroughs fronting the seventies Miles Davis band.

Depending on the travel agent and destination, couples may only have to put a deposit down instead of fronting the entire bill.

The advantage of this program is that payment is made directly to the health care providers so seniors are not fronting money for medical expenses.

I'd lived so clement an existence that the sum total of my exposure to mayhem came from the soft cushioned sofa fronting a wide screen television.

The palace of the khan, with its gardens and lake, itself formed an inner enclosure fronting the south.

There were then unearthed remains of several buildings fronting a broad thoroughfare, one of which is the largest Roman building, except the baths at Bath, yet discovered in England.

The more noteworthy are the old government house (now occupied by the school of mines), the legislative chambers, municipal hall and jail - all fronting on the Praga da Independencia - and elsewhere the old Casa dos Contos (afterwards the public treasury), a theatre (the oldest in Brazil, restored in 1861-1862) and a hospital.

With the handful of songs he wrote while fronting Pink Floyd in 1966 and 1967, Barrett was at the forefront of British psychedelia.