fast vs front

fast

adj
  • Ahead of the correct time or schedule. 

  • Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc. 

  • Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent. 

  • Causing unusual rapidity of play or action. 

  • Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).) 

  • Able to transfer data in a short period of time. 

  • Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. 

  • Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. 

  • Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything). 

  • Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people). 

  • More sensitive to light than average. 

intj
  • Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target 

verb
  • (academic) To cause a person or animal to abstain, especially from eating. 

  • To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet. 

  • To practice religious abstinence, especially from food. 

adv
  • Deeply or soundly . 

  • In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound . 

  • Immediately following in place or time; close, very near . 

  • Ahead of the correct time or schedule. 

  • Quickly, with great speed; within a short time . 

noun
  • The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food 

  • One of the fasting periods in the liturgical year 

  • A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations 

front

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. 

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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