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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.
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.
A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
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The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
Closest or nearest, of a set of futurescontracts 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).
1995, Ignacio Mas, Jesús Saá-Requejo, Using Financial Futures in Trading and Risk Management, World Bank Publications, page 11:
Contracts are available for every month in the front year but do not extend over a year.
2000, The Handbook of World Stock, Derivative & Commodity Exchanges:
Contract months : March, June, September and December[.] Minimum price fluctuation : 0.005 Index Point (1/2 basis point) equivalent to USD 12.50 per tick for the front-year Eurodollar futures[…]
2003, Larry Harris, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, OUP USA, →ISBN, page 54:
The contract that will expire next is called the front contract or front month contract. The other contracts are called the back contracts. In financial and industrial commodities, traders mostly trade only the front month contract.
2010 December 30, Frank J. Fabozzi, Anand K. Bhattacharya, William S. Berliner, Mortgage-Backed Securities: Products, Structuring, and Analytical Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:
Buying the security for the earlier (or “front”) month, and owning (and financing) it for the period ending with the latter (or “back” month) settlement date.
2016 August 8, Steve Bell, Quantitative Finance For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113:
To a speculator, a front month future is attractive. Refer to Figure 6-1 to see that both the open interest and the trading volume of the front-month contract exceeds that of all the other contracts.
2017 October 17, Emmanuel Jurczenko, Factor Investing: From Traditional to Alternative Risk Premia, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 359:
An alternative definition would estimate the slope using the front futures contract and the contract expiring 1 year after (these contracts are relatively liquid in the commodity markets).
2021 March 22, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 324:
When the back contract has a higher PVBP than the front contract, fewer back contracts need to be bought or sold than front contracts are sold or bought. The PVBP-neutral roll ratio is simply the ratio of the front and back contracts[…]
This means that in absolute terms, the number of transactions that is triggered by external sources is highest for the front contract of corn.
2021 September 28, Todd E. Petzel, Modern Portfolio Management: Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 471:
Going long the front futures contract and holding it a month in the example now produces a loss of $1 per barrel as the futures market converges to spot. And as long as the market is in a carry, this loss will happen continuously over[…]
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume I, London: Benj Motte,, →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 35:
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.
1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 312:
They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
2010, Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books, Blog, 26 March:
The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: for G. Fenton , →OCLC:
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.
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,
c.1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth,”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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.
1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Part IV, chapter 39:
But Dagley immediately fronted him, and Fag at his heels growled low […].
2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 217:
On returning home, he fronted his servant about this grisly discovery.
(transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148:
Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
2005, Paul Skandera, Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, page 48:
The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
(linguistics,transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics:
[…] 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, ...
2010, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language:
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 […]
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.
2018, Eric Yarbrough, Transgender Mental Health, page 160:
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.
1993 November 19, Bobby Hill, “Mad Real”, in Washington City Paper, archived from the original on 5 February 2013:
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.
1994, Rivers Cuomo (lyrics and music), “Buddy Holly”, performed by Weezer:
What's with these homies dissin' my girl? / Why do they gotta front?
No matter how hard she fronted in the coming years, Carmiesha could never forget that she had given birth and had a child in this world. Even when she tried not to remember, she still couldn’t forget.
2008, Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
2008, Markus Naerheim, The City, page 531:
You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.
(transitive,slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
1992, “So What'cha Want”, performed by The Beastie Boys:
You think that you can front when revelation comes? / You can't front on that
front in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), front is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 20 times in news, 29 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 74 times, making it the 866th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “front”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “front”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
^ “FRONT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.03.2009
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “front”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 121
Further reading
front in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
front - one aspect of a larger undertaking which is temporarily seen as a separate undertaking in order to evaluate its progress in relationship to the whole.