front

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. countable,uncountable
  2. The side of a building with the main entrance. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. A field of activity. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: frontperson, frontman, front man
  5. 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. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  6. An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact. countable,uncountable
  7. The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank. countable,uncountable
  8. The direction of the enemy. countable,uncountable
  9. When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced. countable,uncountable
  10. A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army. countable,historical,uncountable
  11. Cheek; boldness; impudence. countable,dated,uncountable
  12. A woman's breast. countable,dated,euphemistic,in-plural,uncountable
    — […] there was one bare breast sticking out, the tip of it disappearing into Enid's father's mouth. She had told her mother about this in perfect certainty that she had seen it. She said, "One of her fronts was stuck in Daddy's mouth."
  13. An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself. countable,informal,uncountable
    — He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
  14. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. countable,historical,uncountable
    — like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
  15. The most conspicuous part. countable,uncountable
    — the very head and front of my offending
  16. The beginning. countable,uncountable
    — summer's front
  17. A seafront or coastal promenade. UK,countable,uncountable
  18. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
  19. The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation. countable,dated,slang,uncountable
  20. A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth). countable,in-plural,slang,uncountable
    — I'm saying, man, them fronts? That car? Who is you, Chiron?
动词 v.
  1. To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction. dated,intransitive
    — The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
  2. To face, be opposite to. transitive
    — 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.
    Fanny Hill
  3. To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront. transitive
    — 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,
  4. To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front. transitive
    — Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
  5. To pronounce with the tongue in a front position. intransitive,transitive
    — The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
  6. To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc). transitive
    — […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, ...
  7. To act as a front (for); to cover (for). intransitive,slang
    — Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
  8. To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.). transitive
    — Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
  9. Of an alter in a person with multiplicity (especially in dissociative identity disorder): to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the person's body. ambitransitive
    — Fronting can be understood as a representation of who controls the system, that is, the person to whom you are speaking. Emilia was typically the person fronting her system.
  10. To provide money or financial assistance in advance to. colloquial,transitive
    — I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
  11. To assume false or disingenuous appearances. intransitive,slang
    — So when I tell people where I'm from and check their reactions, I know in my heart I'm just frontin’. Because the way and where I lived then pales when compared to the way and where many youths are living today.
  12. To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on). slang,transitive
    — You think that you can front when revelation comes? / You can't front on that
  13. To appear before. transitive
    — to front court
  14. To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone). intransitive,slang,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Located at or near the front.
    — The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
  2. 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). comparable
    — The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
  3. 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.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to summon a worker on duty, such as a bellhop.
    — Front, boy. Front, boy. Front, boy. Front, boy. You four boys show Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth and their seven—-or so—-Irishmen to 503, 504, 505, 506, and 507.

词形变化

fronts plural further front comparative farther front comparative furthest front superlative farthest front superlative fronts present,singular,third-person fronting participle,present fronted participle,past fronted past

词汇关系

近义词
fore
反义词
back rear derrière last
衍生词
active front afront anafront arctic front back to front back-to-front battlefront beachfront bifront blockfront bowfront breakfront bristlefront buttonfront catafront cherry blossom front cold front common front company front confront creekfront firefront fly front forefront frontage frontal front and center front and centre front bencher front-bencher front bench frontbench front bottom front bum front bumper front burner front butt front company front controller pattern frontcountry frontcourt front crawl front curtain front-desk front desk front door front double biceps front drive front end front-end front-end loader front end loader front-end processor front-facing front fee front-foot front foot front-footed front foot shot front garden front gate front grant front group front hole frontispiece frontless frontlet front lever front-line frontline front line front load front-load front-loaded front loader frontloader front-loading frontly frontman front man front matter front-matter front money frontmost front name frontness front nine front office front-of-house front of house front-of-house curtain front of mind front of the house frontogenesis frontogenetic frontolysis front organization frontover front page front-page frontperson front porch front porch campaign front projection front projector front range front ring front room front row front-rower Front Royal front run frontrunner front runner front-runner front-running front running front seat frontside front-side bus frontsie front slash front squat frontstage front stall front-stall frontstretch frontstroke front teeth front to back front-toothless front up front vowel front walk front walkway front wall frontward frontwards frontways front wheel front-wheel drive front wheelie front-wheel skid front wing frontwise frontwoman front yard froot frunk geofront gust front harborfront harbourfront home front housefront in front in front of in front of God and everyone in front of one's nose intertropical front in the front row jewelfront katafront lakefront lead from the front lightfront Mach front Marfa front Mediterranean front multifront must get in front netherfront new-front occluded front oceanfront on the front burner on the front foot out-front overfront parafront Pareto front polar front popular front punch front put one foot in front of the other red flag in front of a bull refront riverfront seafront sea-front shirtfront shirt-front shock front shockfront shop front shopfront shorefront shut the front door soundfront stationary front storefront stormfront streetfront take the front seat time front up-front up-front money up front upfront warfront warm front waterfront wavefront weather front whitefront windowfront work front y-front Y-fronts zip-front frontfire frontflip front off front on front oneself off
相关词
affront effrontery

词源

词源 1
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
词源 2
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
词源 3
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
词源 4
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
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