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Afore vs Front - What's the difference?

afore | front |

As an adverb afore

is before.

As a preposition afore

is before.

As a conjunction afore

is in advance of the time when; before.

As a noun front is

(facing side)The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

As an adjective front is

located at or near the front.

As a verb front is

to face ({{term|on|lang=en}}, {{term|to|lang=en}}); to be pointed in a given direction.

afore

English

Alternative forms

* affor

Adverb

(-)
  • (dialect) Before.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If he have never drunk wine afore , it will go near to remove his fit.
  • *
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
  • (nautical) In the fore part of a ship.
  • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • before
  • * 1989: , Bell in the tree; The Glasgow story
  • "Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles.

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • in advance of the time when; before
  • * 1611 King James Bible (Authorised Version); Ezekiel 33:22
  • *:Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth ...
  • front

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • * , chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • A field of activity.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Stephen Ledoux, volume=100, issue=1, page=60, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • * Shakespeare
  • with smiling fronts encountering
  • * Macaulay
  • The inhabitants showed a bold front .
  • (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
  • like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
  • The most conspicuous part.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the very head and front of my offending
  • (obsolete) The beginning.
  • * Shakespeare
  • summer's front
  • (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
  • Bless'd with his father's front , his mother's tongue.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front .
  • * Prior
  • His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * back * rear

    Derived 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-front

    Hyponyms

    * (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves) (nautical) (of a ship)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located at or near the front.
  • The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
  • (comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
  • Synonyms

    * (located near the front) first, lead, fore

    Antonyms

    * (located near the front) back, last, rear * (of a vowel) back

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *, II.6:
  • *: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.
  • *'>citation
  • *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.
  • Synonyms

    * (assume false appearances) put on airs, feign

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