Fronting can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| front - 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" | ||
| front - confront bodily; "breast the storm" | ||
Noun |
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| fronting - A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word. | ||
| fronting - An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language. |
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| 1. | verb | There stood a city, fronting far away / the mouths of Tiber and Italia's shore, / a Tyrian settlement of olden day, / rich in all wealth, and trained to war's rough lore, / Carthage the name, by Juno loved before / all places, even Samos. | |
| 2. | verb | Iran is proudly fronting its new weapons. | |
| 3. | noun | He walked to the front of the stage. | |
| 4. | noun | He put up a bold front. | |
| 5. | noun | The Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front. | |
| 6. | noun | He led the national liberation front. | |
| 7. | noun | He was well behaved in front of company. | |
| 8. | adj. | The front lines. | |
| 9. | adj. | The front porch. |
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| There stood a city, fronting far away / the mouths of Tiber and Italia's shore, / a Tyrian settlement of olden day, / rich in all wealth, and trained to war's rough lore, / Carthage the name, by Juno loved before / all places, even Samos. | |
| Iran is proudly fronting its new weapons. | |
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| He walked to the front of the stage. |
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| He put up a bold front. |
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| The Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front. |
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| He led the national liberation front. |
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| He was well behaved in front of company. |
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| adj. | |
| The front lines. |
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| The front porch. |
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