Front
[frʌnt]
解釋/意思:
(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' .
整理:纳撒尼尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
(n.) The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.
(n.) The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
(n.) A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.
(n.) The most conspicuous part.
(n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
(n.) The beginning.
(a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
(v. t.) To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
(v. t.) To appear before; to meet.
(v. t.) To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
(v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
(v. t.) To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
(v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
手打:莉莎
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Forehead, brow.[2]. Van, fore-rank.[3]. Forepart, forward part.
v. a. [1]. Face, stand over against, stand opposite to.[2]. Confront, encounter, oppose, meet face to face.
v. n. Face, be opposite.
校對:威拉德
同義詞及反義詞:
[See FACE]
安尼塔整理
解釋/意思:
n. the forehead: the whole face: the forepart of anything: a kind of wig worn by ladies: the most conspicuous part: boldness: impudence.—adj. of relating to or in the front.—v.t. to stand in front of or opposite: to oppose face to face.—v.i. to stand in front or foremost: to turn the front or face in any direction.—n. Front′age the front part of a building.—adj. Front′al of or belonging to the front or forehead.—n. a front-piece: something worn on the forehead or face: (archit.) a pediment over a door or window: a hanging of silk satin &c. embroidered for an altar—now usually covering only the top the superfrontal—formerly covering the whole of the front corresponding to the antependium.—adjs. Front′ate -d (bot.) growing broader and broader: (zool.) having a prominent frons or forehead; Front′ed formed with a front; Front′less void of shame or modesty.—adv. Front′lessly.—n. Front′let a band worn on the forehead.—advs. Front′ward -s towards the front.—Come to the front to become conspicuous: to attain an important position; In front of before.
編輯:兰尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? 沃爾特·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·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He entered the front room not without blushing; for he, like many, had felt the power of this girl's face and form. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Eastern German front was more extended and less systematically entrenched than the Western. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- General Meade at once ordered the other corps to advance and feel the enemy in their respective fronts. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The house fronts the east, I perceive. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Or on other fronts they might scale it easily and be no better off than they had been before. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- 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·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A grass plat and borders fronted the cottage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A yellow overhanging plaster-fronted house at which he stopped was quiet too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 維萊特.
- The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
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