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If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page.

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Quick take

the side that is forward or prominent

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of front gathered in one view.

noun

the side that is forward or prominent

noun

the line along which opposing armies face each other

noun

the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for front.

noun

the side that is forward or prominent

noun

the line along which opposing armies face each other

noun

the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"

noun

the side that is seen or that goes first

noun

a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

noun

a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"

noun

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

noun

the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company"

noun

the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage"

noun

a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"

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"

verb

confront bodily; "breast the storm"

adjective

relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch"

Example sentences

If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page.

If you delay it, it'll be ten times as much work as just doing it correctly up front.

The front-line folks at Zynga were worked to the bone, by so many insider accounts.

I made a site and still maintain it, have met with Senators, protested in front of the White House, several times, other things.

The next place I interviewed I sat down, in front of a computer, with the interviewer, and we talked through code as I wrote it.

This article is only on the front page of HN because of its author and it bears remembering how Putin's actions have spoken far louder than his words.

She's demonstrating a skill which I think a lot of developers could use: taking Bootstrap, which is a good start for a front end these days, and making it not look like Bootstrap.

However, this system has the potential to silence a lot of high quality comments on any threads that aren't on the front-page for an extended period of time.

It's kind of questionable that a one-paragraph throwaway rant like this has hit the front page of HN. But if that indicates that a lot of people around here have burned their facebook accounts, or are planning to, that would be a hopeful sign for civilization.

The driver stepped out and walked away with no permanent injuries and a fire, again limited to the front section of the vehicle, started several minutes later.

If not, commenting on a several-day-old thread will guarantee that you can never post another comment, since once threads drop off the front page it's not likely that many 1000+ karma users will even see those comments, never mind endorse them.

This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree.