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
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: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
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: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
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: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.