front

1. (comparable, phonetics) 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).Examples: "The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects."comparable

1. (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.Examples: "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."; "They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill."datedintransitive

2. (transitive) To face, be opposite to.Examples: "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."; "She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening."transitive

3. (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.Examples: "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?"; "those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune[…]; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties."transitive

4. (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.Examples: "Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall."transitive

5. (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.Examples: "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."intransitivetransitive

6. (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).Examples: "[…] 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, ..."; "A problem facing any syntactic analysis of hyperbaton is that nonconstituent strings are fronted […] In cases where the adjective is fronted with the determiner, the determiner is not doubled […]"transitive