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Tailing vs Fronting - What's the difference?

tailing | fronting |

As verbs the difference between tailing and fronting

is that tailing is while fronting is .

As nouns the difference between tailing and fronting

is that tailing is the act of following someone while fronting is (phonetics|phonology) a process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.

tailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of following someone.
  • (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (obsolete) sexual intercourse
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * tailings

    fronting

    English

    Noun

  • (phonetics, phonology) A process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.
  • (phonology) A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word.
  • (linguistics) An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language.

    • Verb

    (head)