butt vs front

butt

verb
  • To strike bluntly with the head. 

  • To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. 

  • To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. 

noun
  • The joint where two planks in a strake meet. 

  • A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. 

  • The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass). 

  • The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. 

  • The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts. 

  • The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll. 

  • A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. 

  • A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed. 

  • An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. 

  • Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot 

  • A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread. 

  • The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury. 

  • A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge. 

  • The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. 

  • A mark to be shot at; a target. 

  • A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering. 

  • The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. 

  • The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. 

  • A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. 

  • The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat. 

  • The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired. 

  • A thrust in fencing. 

  • Body; self. 

  • A used cigarette. 

  • A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons. 

front

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. 

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). 

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

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