brush vs front

brush

noun
  • A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 

  • An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals. 

  • An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture. 

  • A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality. 

  • Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths. 

  • In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area. 

  • The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino. 

  • A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience. 

  • A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine. 

  • An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair. 

  • The act of brushing something. 

  • Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland. 

  • The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox. 

  • A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks. 

verb
  • To clean with a brush. 

  • To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing. 

  • To untangle or arrange with a brush. 

  • To apply with a brush. 

  • To clean one's teeth by brushing them. 

  • To remove with a sweeping motion. 

front

noun
  • That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. 

  • An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact. 

  • A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army. 

  • A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth). 

  • The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. 

  • A seafront or coastal promenade. 

  • A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group. 

  • The beginning. 

  • A field of activity. 

  • The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank. 

  • An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself. 

  • The most conspicuous part. 

  • The side of a building with the main entrance. 

  • When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced. 

  • The direction of the enemy. 

  • The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature. 

adj
  • Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one). 

  • Located at or near the front. 

  • Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel). 

verb
  • To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront. 

  • To provide money or financial assistance in advance to. 

  • To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on). 

  • To appear before. 

  • To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc). 

  • To pronounce with the tongue in a front position. 

  • To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front. 

  • To assume false or disingenuous appearances. 

  • Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body. 

  • To act as a front (for); to cover (for). 

  • To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.). 

  • To face, be opposite to. 

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