front

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

The side of a building with the main entrance.

Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

A field of activity.

Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

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

Near-synonyms: frontperson, frontman, front man

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

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 ai

We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.

Located at or near the front.

The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.

Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).

The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.

Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).

Contracts are available for every month in the front year but do not extend over a year.

Contract months : March, June, September and December[.] Minimum price fluctuation : 0.005 Index Point (1/2 basis point) equivalent to USD 12.50 per tick for the front-year Eurodollar futures[…]

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

The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.

The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.

To face, be opposite to.

After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.

[…]down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.

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

Know you not Gaueston hath store of golde, Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends, As he will front the mightiest of vs all,

What well-appointed leader fronts us here?

To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.

Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.

To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.

The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.

Finally, the pretonic -e- of this *tsengòrra would have been fronted, yielding *tsingòrra.