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in front

/fruhnt/US // frʌnt //UK // (frʌnt) //

在前面,在前面的,在前,前面是

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : : 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

  • In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

  • As the protagonist gets herself off in front of her impotent husband, she moans “Oh, Gronky.”

  • Granted, James is in an office in the Pentagon, and not on the front lines.

  • The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.

  • Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?

  • Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

  • Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

  • The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.

  • She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.

  • Then they all passed out through the great front door to the wide old veranda.