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.
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).
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.
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
To pull or draw by the tail.
All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
Sexual intercourse.
Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
The penis of a person or animal.
A tailing.
The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
The distal tendon of a muscle.
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
The stern; the back of the kayak.
The buttocks or backside.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.