Word Finder - fronts

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The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

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The side of a building with the main entrance.

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A field of activity.

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A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.

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Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.

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The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.

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An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.

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The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.

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The direction of the enemy.

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When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.

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A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.

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Cheek; boldness; impudence.

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An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.

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He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.

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That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.

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The most conspicuous part.

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The beginning.

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A seafront or coastal promenade.

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The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

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(hotels) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.

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(in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).

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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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As the whole coastline of Liberia thus fronts the sea route from Europe to South Africa it is always likely to possess a certain degree of strategical importance.

Germany would be sufficiently employed in carrying on war against two fronts.

The town fronts the broad Molde Fjord, with its long low islands, and to the east and south a splendid panorama of jagged mountains is seen, reaching 601o ft.

The army was formed of the legionaries who had fought in Russia, France and Italy on the side of the Allies, and of those Czechoslovak troops who, on the collapse of Austria-Hungary, streamed back from the various fronts.

It presents four fronts, that facing the river being of Portland stone, in the Doric order, while the rest are of granite.

The portion known as Freshwater Gate fronts the English Channel from the strip of low-lying coast interposed between the cliffs of the peninsula and those of the main part of the island.

There are three fronts; the principal, towards College Green, is a colonnade of the Ionic order, with façade and two projecting wings; it connects with the western portico by a colonnade of the same order, forming the quadrant of a circle.

The building was begun in 1729, but the fronts date from the end of the century; the remodelling took place in 1803.

Trinity College, or Dublin University, fronts the street with a Palladian façade (1759), with two good statues by Foley, of Goldsmith and Burke.

Excepting on the west fronts of Pomona, Hoy and Rousay, the coast-line of the islands is deeply indented, and the islands themselves are divided from each other by straits generally called sounds or firths, though off the north-east of Hoy the designation Bring Deeps is used, south of Pomona is Scapa Flow and to the south-west of Eday is found the Fall of Warness.

In Dauphin county is a quarry of bluish-brown Triassic sandstone that has been used extensively especially in Philadelphia, for the erection of the so-called brown stone fronts.

It remains to deal with the censorship of messages from authorized British correspondents on the several fronts.

Extending along the river fronts for about 6z m.

There are some two hundred rectangular tomb buildings in unburnt brick with ornamented fronts.

The poorer houses are built of brick with plaster fronts.

Conrad believed that the effect of the attack would be decisive, and Krauss, then chief of the staff to the Archduke Eugene, agreed, but was of opinion that a double attack should be made, on both the Julian and Trentino fronts.

Backs of Teeth and Spaces.Toothed wheels being in general intended to rotate either way, the backs of the teeth are made similar to the fronts.

Hooke invented the making of the fronts of teeth in a series of steps with a view to increase the smoothness of action.

He also invented, with the same object, teeth whose fronts, instead of being parallel to the line of contact of the pitch-circles, cross it obliquely, so as to be of a screw-like or helical form.

A few, however, preserve antique narrow fronts with gables, as in some of the North German towns.

On the other side, confusion in the command and other causes made the general advance slow and disjointed; the initiative was soon lost, and the battle became one of the parallel fronts along the 1 This is all the more remarkable as the Bulgarian I.

An effort was indeed made by the Turkish field forces in Thrace to debouch from the lines of Bulair and those of Chatalja simultaneously with a view to relieving Adrianople, but after locally heavy fighting the Bulgarians succeeded in holding their own on each of these fronts, and thereafter Adrianople was left to its fate.'

He himself took over the command of the whole Montenegrin army, his troops being distributed on both fronts.

Flamborough Head, the South Foreland, Beachy Head and the Needles are examples of the fine scenery into which chalk weathers where it fronts the sea, and these white cliffs gave to the island its early name of Albion.

Prince Henry of Orleans described it as "a splendid territory, fertile in soil and abundant in water, where tropical and temperate culture flourish side by side, and the inhabitants are protected on three fronts by mountains."

As is usually the case with the trap formation, they descend to the plains in terraces with abrupt fronts.

The town fronts Sullivan's Cove, a picturesque bay opening into the estuary of the river Derwent, and is nearly square in form, laid out with wide streets intersecting at right angles, the chief of which are served by electric tramways.

Around the wall in the houses of the wealthy were arranged the bedsteads, or rather compartments, with testers and fronts, sometimes made of carved yew.

This heavy armament soon became justly feared by enemies on all fronts during WWII.

Progress has been made in improving the design of cage fronts to make access better for depopulation thus reducing bone breakage.

The final chorale and fugue was an excellent example of togetherness on all fronts.

The effort to combat corruption involves action on several fronts.

He says a small coterie of unelected powerful people calling the shots has to stop on all fronts.

For example on the other drawers the fronts were slightly bowed where the veneer had pulled them out of line.

Part of a working farm, it is attached to the main farmhouse and fronts the cobbled farmyard.

You expect many things from Brian Molko, the androgynous alien sex fiend who fronts Placebo.

If only... The weather was pretty fierce and we flirted with weather fronts in pursuit of the bowl.

The Arran kitchen features double molded panel doors and lovely deep drawer fronts all in solid pine with matching solid pine handles.

As four large shops fronts replaced six smaller old ones, the numbers 53 and 54 High Street disappeared for ever in the process.

As this high drifted east into the continent, Atlantic fronts crossed Shetland bringing further south-westerly gales and spells of rain.

It is more likely that dolomitisation fronts formed on the sides of the fault-controlled pathway, with the unaltered marbles remaining essentially impermeable.

The fronts are finished in a high gloss lacquer whilst the reverse side is in Matt.

There is no single magic bullet, BBSRC must work with others on a number of fronts.

They are now mature men and women, working on various fronts for the development of our beloved motherland " .

These fronts were forecast to bring snowfall over high ground.

The Popular Fronts in essence meant the subordination of workers ' parties to the capitalist political system.

We are taking action on a number of fronts to accelerate the transformation of the business and deliver improved performance.

Fine-scale transient upwelling (from eddies, fronts and planetary waves) provides the dominant supply of nitrate.

With every year of war the number of confiscations of property increased in the Yugoslav provinces, as in Bohemia and Transylvania - vengeance upon the families at home being widely used in order to deter Slav, Italian or Rumanian prisoners from enlisting in the various volunteer corps in process of formation on the Russian, Balkan and Italian fronts.

There are three fronts; the principal, towards College Green, is a colonnade of the Ionic order, with façade and two projecting wings; it connects with the western portico by a colonnade of the same order, forming the quadrant of a circle.