Front

(noun.) the side that is seen or that goes first.

(noun.) the outward appearance of a person; 'he put up a bold front'.

(noun.) the side that is forward or prominent.

(noun.) the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; 'he walked to the front of the stage'.

(noun.) (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses.

(noun.) a sphere of activity involving effort; 'the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front'; 'they advertise on many different fronts'.

(verb.) confront bodily; 'breast the storm'.

(verb.) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; 'The house looks north'; 'My backyard look onto the pond'; 'The building faces the park'.

(adj.) relating to or located in the front; 'the front lines'; 'the front porch' .

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• Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Orders were to move cautiously with skirmishers to the front to feel for the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He entered the front room not without blushing; for he, like many, had felt the power of this girl's face and form. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The boiler was tubular, and the exhaust steam was carried into the chimney by a pipe in front of the smoke stack as shown. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The Eastern German front was more extended and less systematically entrenched than the Western. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• General Meade at once ordered the other corps to advance and feel the enemy in their respective fronts. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The house fronts the east, I perceive. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Or on other fronts they might scale it easily and be no better off than they had been before. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Generals Ord, Wright, and Parke made examinations in their fronts to determine the feasibility of an assault on the enemy's lines. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A grass plat and borders fronted the cottage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A yellow overhanging plaster-fronted house at which he stopped was quiet too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ainsi, he began, abruptly fronting and arresting me, vous allez tr?ner comme une reine; demain--tr?ner à mes c?tés? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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