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 infront of it, and all blazing with lights.
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioralfronts 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 thepublic face of some other,covert group.
1998, Alice Munro,The Love of a Good Woman, page74:
[…] there was one bare breast sticking out, the tip of it disappearing into Enid's father's mouth. She had told her mother about this in perfect certainty that she had seen it. She said, "One of herfronts was stuck in Daddy's mouth."
2015, Stephen Birmingham,The Wrong Kind of Money:
She thought—imagined, really—that her, well, that herfronts were too big. She grew up, you see, in the flapper era, when it was fashionable for women to have very flatfronts.
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The English worddress has afront vowel in most dialects.
Closest ornearest, of a set offuturescontracts whichexpire at particular times, or of the times they expire;(typically, thefront month orfront 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, page11:
Contracts are available for every month in thefront 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 thefront-year Eurodollar futures[…]
2003, Larry Harris,Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, OUP USA,→ISBN, page54:
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 thefront 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, page35:
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, page113:
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 thefront-month contract exceeds that of all the other contracts.
2017 October 17, Emmanuel Jurczenko,Factor Investing: From Traditional to Alternative Risk Premia, Elsevier,→ISBN, page359:
An alternative definition would estimate the slope using thefront 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, page324:
When the back contract has a higher PVBP than thefront contract, fewer back contracts need to be bought or sold thanfront contracts are sold or bought. The PVBP-neutral roll ratio is simply the ratio of thefront and back contracts[…]
2021 June 3, Mogens Steffensen,Risks: Feature Papers 2020, MDPI,→ISBN, page109:
This means that in absolute terms, the number of transactions that is triggered by external sources is highest for thefront contract of corn.
2021 September 28, Todd E. Petzel,Modern Portfolio Management: Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, page471:
Going long thefront 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[…]
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, inMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London:[…][Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton andRalph Griffiths][…],→OCLC:
After saluting her, he led her to a couch thatfronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
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 andfront her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
1872,George Eliot,Middlemarch, Part IV, chapter 39:
But Dagley immediatelyfronted him, and Fag at his heels growled low[…].
2001,Richard Flanagan,Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published2016, page217:
On returning home, hefronted his servant about this grisly discovery.
(transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
2005, Paul Skandera, Peter Burleigh,A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, page48:
The velar plosives are oftenfronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
2025, Cid Swanenvleugel,The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page214:
Finally, the pretonic -e- of this *tsengòrra would have beenfronted, yielding *tsingòrra.
(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 befronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may befronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections arefronted 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 arefronted[…] In cases where the adjective isfronted with the determiner, the determiner is not doubled[…]
Ray Winstone isfronting 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, page160:
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 personfronting her system.
1993 November 19, Bobby Hill, “Mad Real”, inWashington City Paper[3], archived fromthe original on5 February 2013:
So when I tell people where I'm from and check their reactions, I know in my heart I'm justfrontin’. Because the way and where I lived then pales when compared to the way and where many youths are living today.
1994,Rivers Cuomo, “Buddy Holly”, performed by Weezer:
What's with these homies dissin' my girl? / Why do they gottafront?
No matter how hard shefronted 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 tofront, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
2008, Markus Naerheim,The City, page531:
You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you beenfrontin'.
(transitive,slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
1992, “So What'cha Want”, performed by TheBeastie Boys:
You think that you can front when revelation comes? / You can'tfront on that
front in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
According toSłownik 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]
^Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “front”, inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
^“FRONT”, inElektroniczny 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”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page121
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.
