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Front vs Eject - What's the difference?

front | eject |

In transitive terms the difference between front and eject

is that front is to lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.) while eject is to cause (something) to come out of a machine.

In intransitive terms the difference between front and eject

is that front is to assume false or disingenuous appearances while eject is to come out of a machine.

As nouns the difference between front and eject

is that front is (facing side)The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves while eject is a button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.

As verbs the difference between front and eject

is that front is to face ({{term|on|lang=en}}, {{term|to|lang=en}}); to be pointed in a given direction while eject is to compel (a person or persons) to leave.

As an adjective front

is located at or near the front.

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.
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  • 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.
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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.
  • Synonyms

    * (assume false appearances) put on airs, feign

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    eject

    English

    Usage notes

    The physiological sense always uses pronunciation stressed on the first syllable (), either pronunciation is used for the other senses.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
  • * 2012 , August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'
  • Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
  • To throw out or remove forcefully.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • (US) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
  • To project oneself from an aircraft.
  • To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
  • To come out of a machine.
  • Synonyms

    * boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, toss, turf out, oust * (throw out forcefully) throw out * send off (UK ) * * (project oneself from an aircraft) bail out * (come out of a machine) come out

    Derived terms

    * ejectable * ejector

    Noun

    eject (not used in the plural )
  • A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
  • When the tape stops, press eject.

    Usage notes

    * Eject in this sense is used without an article, and is often capitalised ("press EJECT") as it is marked on many such buttons, or enclosed in quotation marks ("press 'eject'").

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (psychology) (by analogy with subject and object ) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
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