front vs second

front

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

  • 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 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. 

second

verb
  • To assist or support; to back. 

  • To climb after a lead climber. 

  • To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.) 

  • To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.) 

  • To accompany by singing as the second performer. 

  • To follow in the next place; to succeed. 

  • To transfer temporarily to alternative employment. 

noun
  • The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel. 

  • An additional helping of food. 

  • Something that is number two in a series. 

  • A second-class honours degree. 

  • One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest. 

  • A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree. 

  • The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental). 

  • A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards. 

  • Second base. 

  • A short, indeterminate amount of time. 

  • Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority. 

  • One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc. 

  • A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.) 

  • The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest. 

  • A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer. 

  • The second gear of an engine. 

  • One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant. 

adj
  • Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. 

  • Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. 

  • Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another. 

adv
  • After the first; at the second rank. 

  • After the first occurrence but before the third. 

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