Across vs Front - What's the difference?
across | front |
To, toward or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
(Southern US, AAVE) On the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
* 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <tongtp@coyote.cig.mot.comcoyote.cig.mot.com>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <2u7lsi$79n@delphinium.cig.mot.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games , Usenet [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games/msg/28d5e0700985bbe6]:
* 1995 , (Ronald Kessler), Inside the White House , 1996 edition, ISBN 0671879197, page 243 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC&pg=PA243&dq=across]:
From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
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At or near the far end of (a space).
* 2004 , (Josephine Cox), Lovers and Liars , ISBN 0060525479, page 78 [http://books.google.com/books?id=MSZf-siTBGUC&pg=PA78&dq=across]:
Spanning.
Throughout.
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, title= So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
* 2010 , (Alex Bledsoe), The Girls with Games of Blood , , ISBN 9780765323842, page 147 [http://books.google.com/books?id=3O878YujdCEC&pg=PA147&dq=across]:
From one side to the other.
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In a particular direction.
(crosswords) Horizontally.
(crosswords) A clue whose solution runs horizontally in the grid.
(senseid)The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
The side of a building with the main entrance.
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, title= A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
(meteorology) 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.
(military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
(military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
(military) The direction of the enemy.
(military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
(obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
(informal) An act, show, , persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
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* Macaulay
(historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
* Elizabeth Browning
The most conspicuous part.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) The beginning.
* Shakespeare
(UK) a seafront or coastal promenade.
(obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
* Alexander Pope
* Shakespeare
* Prior
Located at or near the front.
(comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
(dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
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*:The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin, 2011, p.35:
*:The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
*1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam, 2011, p.312:
*:They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
*2010 , Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books , Blog, 26 March:
*:The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
To face, be opposite to.
*1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin, 1985, p.66:
*:After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
*1813 , (Jane Austen), Pride and Prejudice :
*:down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
*1913 , (DH Lawrence), Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.49:
*:She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
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*:those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
*1623 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry IV, Part 2 :
*:What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
*2001 , (Terry Goodkind), The Pillars of Creation , p.148:
*:Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
(phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
*2005 , Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology , p.48:
*:The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
(linguistics) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.
(slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
*2007 , Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher , p.183:
*:Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
*2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian :
*:Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
(colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
*2004 , (Danielle Steele), Ransom , p.104:
*:I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
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*2008 , Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
*:Boy don't try to front , / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
*2008 Markus Naerheim, The City , p.531
*:You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin' .
To appear before, as in to front court.
As nouns the difference between across and front
is that across is (crosswords) a clue whose solution runs horizontally in the grid while front is the front end or side of something.As a preposition across
is to, toward or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).As an adverb across
is from one side to the other.across
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.
- On another occasion, Clinton asked to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car.
- "I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. "They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes."
- "Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door.
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- He parked across the end of the driveway, blocking her in.
Derived terms
* across-the-board * come across * get across * put across * put one across * run acrossAdverb
(-)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across . Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
Noun
(es)- I solved all of the acrosses , but then got stuck on 3 down.
Statistics
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English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Behaviorism at 100, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
- with smiling fronts encountering
- The inhabitants showed a bold front .
- like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
- the very head and front of my offending
- summer's front
- Bless'd with his father's front , his mother's tongue.
- Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front .
- His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* back * rearDerived terms
* active front * arctic front * battlefront * beachfront * back to front/back-to-front * bowfront * breakfront * cold front * common front * company front * confront * fly front * forefront * frontage * frontal * front and center * front bench/frontbench * front bottom * front burner * frontcourt * front crawl * front door * front drive * front end/front-end * front-facing * front fee * front foot * front grant * front group * frontispiece * frontless * frontlet * frontline/front line * front load * front man * front matter * front money * frontmost * front name * frontness * front nine * front office * front of house * front of the house * front organization * front page * front porch * front projector * front range * front ring * front room * front row * front runner * front running * front stall/front-stall * front teeth * front vowel * front wall * frontward * frontwards * front-wheel drive * frontwise * front yard * home front * in front * in front of * lakefront * occluded front * oceanfront * out-front * polar front * popular front * riverfront * seafront * shirtfront * shock front * shop front/shopfront * shorefront * stationary front * storefront * up front/upfront * warm front * waterfront * weather front * Y-fronts * zip-frontHyponyms
* (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves) (nautical) (of a ship)Adjective
(-)- The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.