Forehead vs Ahead - What's the difference?
forehead | ahead |
The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
*1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) , Macmillan
*:'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 In or to the front; in advance; onward.
Having progressed more.
In the direction one is facing or moving.
in the future, preceding
*{{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.
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As a noun forehead
is the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.As an adverb ahead is
in or to the front; in advance; onward.forehead
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead , whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.
Synonyms
* browahead
English
Adverb
(-)- The island bore but a little ahead of us. --Fielding.
- He is far ahead of his class in math.
- Just ahead you can see the cliffs.