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As nouns the difference between front and on

is that front is the front end or side of something while on is lamb.

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.
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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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    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), , see (m).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
  • Performing according to schedule.
  • Are we still on for tonight?
    Is the show still on ?
  • (UK, informal) Acceptable, appropriate.
  • right on'''''; ''bang '''on'''''; ''not '''on
  • (informal) Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
  • "Five bucks says the Cavs win tonight." ?"You're on !"
    Mike just threw coffee onto Paul's lap. It's on now.
  • (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
  • Synonyms
    * base (not informal)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To an operating state.
  • turn the television on
  • Along, forwards (continuing an action).
  • drive on''', rock '''on
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport , url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17878435 , page= , passage=He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on , with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.}}
  • In continuation, at length.
  • and so on .
    He rambled on''' and '''on .
  • (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman; leg.
  • (not US) Later.
  • Ten years on nothing had changed in the village.
    Antonyms
    * off * (to an operating state) off * (later) after, afterward/afterwards, later, subsequently, thence

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
  • * Longfellow
  • I stood on the bridge at midnight.
  • At or near; adjacent to.
  • Soon we'll pass a statue on the left.
    The fleet is on the American coast.
  • Covering.
  • At the date of.
  • Some time during the day of.
  • Dealing with the subject of, about, or concerning something.
  • Touching; hanging from.
  • (informal) In the possession of.
  • Because of, or due to.
  • Immediately after.
  • Paid for by.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • Away or occupied with (e.g. a scheduled activity).
  • Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
  • to play on a violin or piano
    Her words made a lasting impression on my mind.
  • (senseid) Regularly taking (a drug).
  • (senseid) Under the influence of (a drug).
  • (mathematics) Having identical domain and codomain.
  • a function on V
  • (mathematics) Having V^n as domain and V'' as codomain, for some set ''V'' and integer ''n .
  • an operator on V
  • (mathematics) Generated by.
  • Supported by (the specified part of itself).
  • At a given time after the start of something; .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 24, author=Aled Williams, work=BBC Sport
  • , title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/14957961.stm Chelsea 4-1 Swansea] , passage=The Spain striker had given Chelsea the lead on 29 minutes but was shown a straight red card 10 minutes later for a rash challenge on Mark Gower.}}
  • In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
  • heaps on heaps of food
    mischief on''' mischief; loss '''on loss
    (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) of
  • * Shakespeare
  • Be not jealous on me.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Or have we eaten on the insane root / That takes the reason prisoner?
  • Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in.
  • I depended on them for assistance.
    He will promise on certain conditions.
    Do you ever bet on horses?
  • Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
  • Have pity or compassion on him.
  • (obsolete) At the peril of, or for the safety of.
  • * Dryden
  • Hence, on thy life.
  • In the service of; connected with; of the number of.
  • He is on''' a newspaper; I am '''on the committee.
  • By virtue of; with the pledge of.
  • He affirmed or promised on''' his word, or '''on his honour.
  • To the account of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
  • On us be all the blame.
    A curse on him!
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 25
  • His blood be on' us and ' on our children.
    Derived terms
    * depend on * on-campus * put on airs *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Singapore) To switch on.
  • Can you on the light?
    Synonyms
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Without.
  • Usage notes
    * Usually followed by a perfect participle, as being'', ''having , etc.

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