fronting
幌子,幌子的,幌子化,前面的
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Definitions
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- : the foremost part or surface of anything.
- : the part or side of anything that faces forward: the front of a jacket.
- : the part or side of anything, as a building, that seems to look out or to be directed forward: He sat in the front of the restaurant.
- : any side or face, as of a building.
- : a façade, considered with respect to its architectural treatment or material: a cast-iron front.
- : a property line along a street or the like: a fifty-foot front.
- : a place or position directly before anything: We decided to plant trees in the front.
- : a position of leadership in a particular endeavor or field: She rose to the front of her profession.
- : Military. the foremost line or part of an army.a line of battle.the place where combat operations are carried on.
- : an area of activity, conflict, or competition: news from the business front.
- : land facing a road, river, etc.
- : British. a promenade along a seashore.
- : Informal. a distinguished person listed as an official of an organization, for the sake of prestige, and who is usually inactive.
- : a person or thing that serves as a cover or disguise for some other activity, especially one of a secret, disreputable, or illegal nature; a blind: The store was a front for foreign agents.
- : outward impression of rank, position, or wealth.
- : bearing or demeanor in confronting anything: a calm front.
- : haughtiness; self-importance: That clerk has the most outrageous front.
- : the forehead, or the entire face: the statue's gracefully chiseled front.
- : a coalition or movement to achieve a particular end, usually political: the people's front.
- : something attached or worn at the breast, as a shirt front or a dickey: to spill gravy down one's front.
- : Meteorology. an interface or zone of transition between two dissimilar air masses.
- : Theater. the auditorium.the business offices of a theater.the front of the stage; downstage.
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- : of or relating to the front.
- : situated in or at the front: front seats.
- : Phonetics. articulated with the tongue blade relatively far forward in the mouth, as the sounds of lay.
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- : to have the front toward; face: Our house fronts the lake.
- : to meet face to face; confront.
- : to face in opposition, hostility, or defiance.
- : to furnish or supply a front to: to front a building with sandstone.
- : to serve as a front to: A long, sloping lawn fronted their house.
- : Informal. to provide an introduction to; introduce: a recorded message that is fronted with a singing commercial.
- : to lead.
- : Phonetics. to articulate at a position farther front in the mouth.
- : Linguistics. to move to the beginning of a clause or sentence.
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- : to have or turn the front in some specified direction: Our house fronts on the lake.
- : to serve as a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something of a disreputable or illegal nature: The shop fronts for a narcotics ring.
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- : : Front and center, on the double!
Phrases
- front and center
- front burner, on a
- front office
- brave face (front)
- in front of
- out front
- up front
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
For some reason, the former-reality star is still fronting a ton of glossies (she covers the April issue of Allure).
In the cemetery fronting the chapel, the surrounding fortification offers temporary and economical burial vaults.
Fronting directly on the street is a two-storey wall, pierced by two doorways: entrance and exit to the compound.
Some had extensive reporting experience, as Crowley does, but they were accustomed to fronting television shows.
David Cameron owns a modest farmhouse fronting the quiet road through the tiny hamlet of Dean, five miles from Chipping Norton.
Fifteen years prior to the commencement of our story, Dorothy had been found by farmer Rushmere on the wild common fronting them.
The houses rise in terraces up the sharp hillside fronting the harbor, which was literally a forest of fishing-boat masts.
Oban is modern, a place of many and excellent hotels fronting on the bay.
The rectory, which is directly by the church, is a very old building, though it has been modernized on the side fronting the road.
For two or three miles fronting the beach there is a row of hotels, some of them most palatial.