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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

front

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a back/front/side pocket

▪ He took a wad of money from his back pocket.

a front window

▪ I don't want people looking in my front window.

a front/rear tyre

▪ I bought a set of new front tyres.

cold front

directly in front of/behind/under etc sth

▪ It was a small house, directly behind the church.

front and center

▪ Prayer in schools has become a front-and-center issue.

front bench

front desk

front door

front doorstep

▪ the front doorstep

front foot (=of an animal)

▪ The tiger has five claws in each of its front feet.

front line

▪ troops who had served in the front line at Magdeburg

front line

▪ young soldiers who were sent to the front line to fight

front man

front matter

front of house

▪ the front-of-house manager

front office

front room

front/back yard

▪ The kids were playing in the back yard.

home front

▪ The film is set on the home front in 1943.

in front of...mirror

▪ He spends hours in front of the mirror!

sb's front/back teeth

▪ Some of his front teeth were missing.

shop front

smack in the middle/in front of sth etc

▪ There was a hole smack in the middle of the floor.

the front gardenBritish English (= at the front of a house)

▪ Their house had a small front garden.

the front wheel

▪ Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid.

the front/back cover

▪ The price of the book is on the back cover.

the front/back door key

▪ She felt in her pocket for the front door key.

the front/back edge

▪ I banged my elbow on the front edge of the desk.

the front/back gate (=the gate in front of or at the back of a building)

▪ She stood outside the front gate of the cottage.

the front/back page (=of a newspaper)

▪ Her picture was on the front page of every newspaper.

the front/back/rear seat (=in a car)

▪ Never leave bags on the back seat of a car.

the front/back/rear/side entrance

▪ There is a long drive with steps leading to the front entrance.

the front/back/side door (=of a house)

▪ I heard someone knocking at the front door.

▪ Use the back door if your boots are muddy.

the front/head of the queue

▪ He pushed his way to the front of the queue.

the front/rear/side exit

▪ When the lights dimmed, she slipped out by the rear exit.

the rear/front brakes (=for the rear/front wheels)

▪ The rear brakes were ineffective.

warm front

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

broad

▪ On a broader front, I have been impressed by the various initiatives which have been taken locally to manage costs.

▪ It was an effort to roll back federal aid to the poor across a much broader front.

cold

▪ Where the cold front of winter can be a killer.

▪ Another cold front passed through the north state Monday night and early Tuesday, chilling the region with November-like temperatures.

▪ Never risk parking out overnight without checking the weather forecast for a strong wind warning or the approach of a cold front.

▪ Forecasters are banking on a cold front to clear cloudy conditions.

▪ But all that was some months ago and she had a cold front since for her hefty swinging colleague.

▪ Clearing conditions were forecast behind the cold front that dragged low clouds through Central Florida early Friday.

domestic

▪ It will be equal competition on the domestic front.

▪ From the mid-forties onward Congress legislated for the domestic front while the President acted on the foreign front.

▪ On the domestic front, disposal tends to mean throwing rubbish in the bin.

▪ It deals with the domestic intelligence front.

▪ On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting.

▪ By March of 1188, Frederick seemed finally to have defeated his opponents on the major domestic and imperial fronts.

economic

▪ On the economic front, there are two pro-regional arguments.

▪ Reducing inflation was, until 1989, the government's greatest achievement on the economic front.

united

▪ McCord's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon's officials.

▪ Microsoft refuses to be phased by emergence of united Unix front Tough talk?

▪ Instead, there will be attempts to paper over the chasms and put on a united front for the sake of appearances.

▪ A united front was to be formed with the Nationalists.

▪ In the last six months, inter-party rivalry has been subordinated to the need for a united unionist front.

▪ But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front.

▪ You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.

▪ The right wing put forward a united front with the clear aim of overthrowing the republic.

wide

▪ Undoubtedly a major factor here is the 5ins longer wheelbase and wider front and rear tracks.

▪ On a wider front secularism has affected our lives in a variety of ways.

▪ The method thus supplies greater transparency and insight and leads to a unified approach offering progress along a wide front.

▪ It is important to note that we have greatly increased the number of professionals providing services on a wide range of fronts.

▪ Whatever the cause of failure, help to families has to operate on a wide front.

▪ Restrictions on advertising and fees have been relaxed over a wider front.

■ NOUN

home

▪ But on the home front, too, it's been a busy year.

▪ One spouse may work days while the other works nights in order to keep the home front covered.

▪ But there is definitely change on the home front.

▪ Racial violence on the home front and the war abroad contended for headlines.

▪ It was correctly viewed as the low point of wartime morale on the home front.

▪ During World War I she was conspicuous for her public relief work on the home front.

▪ Other news from the home front.

▪ More dangerous on the home front are the volatile substances that are inhaled to produce a high.

shop

▪ In the courtyard of the family home, on the road and in shop fronts, people chatted, smoked, gossiped.

▪ The stalls had disappeared, the shop fronts were boarded up.

▪ A freshly painted shop front with shining glass and a window full of bottles.

▪ The streets were jammed tight with narrow shop fronts and grimy cafés.

▪ Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs.

▪ Across the streets whole shop fronts lay in a mangled mess.

▪ Paint was peeling from the shop fronts, some premises were derelict.

■ VERB

present

▪ But this phalanx of enemies, all with influence in the legislature, did not present an unbroken front.

▪ It was not expected to be waterproof, although obviously in combination with the mortar it should present a united front.

▪ But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front.

▪ You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.

▪ Inpart this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime.

▪ At this stage nothing remains but that each should present an opaque front to the other.

▪ Parents need to present a combined front to the children which is firm and united.

▪ Both Secunderabad and Hyderabad presented long arcaded fronts to the platform, back by powerful rectangular blocks containing offices.

sit

▪ They suggested she sat at the front of the class, and her bright hand shot up to answer every question.

▪ I sat at the front of the coach, next to the driver.

▪ A black serviceman boarded a city bus and sat in front, remembers Chauvin, who lives in Hayward.

▪ An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles.

▪ Jim sits in front of four computer screens, controlling de-inking equipment that cost $ 42 million to install.

▪ I sat up front with him.

stand

▪ Three men approached the car, and one of them stood in front of it, Velarde said.

▪ The moment they emerged from the field, Jinju felt as if she were standing naked in front of a crowd.

▪ He crossed the room, stood in front of the board, and thought for a moment.

▪ He stands in front of the cameras and preaches with unmistakable pomposity, treating his opinions as if they were holy writ.

▪ An elderly woman in a kimono stands blankly in front of the second photograph.

▪ I could see her there standing in front of me, crying, because the others were telling her she was ugly.

▪ He walks down the steps and stands in front of Primo.

▪ Then she took pictures of Primo, Felix and Manny, standing in front of its crossing eight-foot blades.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

back to front

▪ Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.

▪ You've got your sweater on back to front.

▪ And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?

▪ But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?

▪ I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.

▪ It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.

▪ Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.

▪ Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.

▪ The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.

▪ They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.

dangle sth in front of sb/before sb

front/rear/back wheels

in the front line

▪ It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.

▪ Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?

▪ She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.

▪ They were sitting in the front line of chairs.

▪ We really were in the front line.

make the papers/headlines/front page etc

▪ And the story made the front pages.

▪ Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.

▪ Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.

out front

▪ But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.

▪ Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.

▪ I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.

▪ I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.

▪ Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?

▪ That the police chief was parked out front?

▪ There was some kind of commotion out front.

put on a brave face/front

▪ He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.

▪ I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.

▪ Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.

▪ Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.

▪ Newspaper staff put on a brave face.

▪ No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.

▪ Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ She puts on this "innocent little girl" act, but it's all a front.

▪ The car rental company is actually a front for a drugs ring.

▪ The charity has been accused of being a front for anti-government activity.

▪ The club was just a front - Luchese's real business was drug smuggling and gun running.

▪ Trucks are heading toward the front with fresh supplies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Clinton ordered Pennsylvania Avenue closed to vehicular traffic in front of the White House.

▪ His black hair was now white, as were his shoulders and the front of his coat.

▪ His whole life passed in front of me; the lives of his fathers, his sons.

▪ Over instead of pull it over in front.

▪ The front had undergone a terrible impact, the rest was essentially intact.

▪ The disenfranchising effect of unemployment has worked on a number of fronts.

▪ The distinctively figured wood facing the wings on both back and front is an unusual choice of yew.

▪ The pass has a slight loft and, crucially, is thrown in front of Edney.

II.adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bench

▪ He spoke frequently and effectively on the Conservative front bench until the progress of Parkinson's disease made it impossible.

▪ Six boys from the front bench were selected.

▪ I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench.

▪ They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House.

▪ There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country.

▪ When the Asquith government was formed there was of course no post for such a recent recruit to the front bench.

▪ The Opposition front bench, and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.

▪ This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench, but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.

cover

▪ This book ought to have a free razor-blade stuck to its front cover.

▪ In advance he had prepared a message and written a list of page numbers inside the front cover.

▪ We were promised a front cover with International Musician and they wanted the band just to pose with their instruments.

▪ On the front cover, a dilute tabby looks nobly if nervously to its right.

▪ David wouldn't do it, so we lost the front cover.

▪ Little things, simple things, like a passport with an eagle on the front cover.

▪ The front cover of Dry, their debut album, captures Harvey's lipsticked mouth smudged against glass.

desk

▪ The unit is controlled from the front desk and it is programmed to accept cards with the correct codes.

▪ They are used to keep track of what happens in the classrooms and at the front desk.

▪ I marched to the front desk and enquired the price of single room for one night.

▪ Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.

▪ As front desk personnel come and go, training and retraining is crucial for the daily success of any system.

▪ A large black man sat behind the front desk with his sleeves rolled up.

▪ After checking in and taking a shower, I tried to ring Merrit from the front desk.

▪ Soon the big fellow did the same, fixing his trousers even as he passed the front desk with wet face averted.

door

▪ At the end of the corridor leading from the front door was the kitchen, where he found the fridge.

▪ There were two swallows nesting above our front door.

▪ Polly gingerly took up the receiver of the entryphone intercom that hung on the wall beside her front door.

▪ And some designers are even painting front doors to match the landscaping.

▪ Our communal phone is on the hallway wall by the front door.

▪ Their front yards and front doors facing the streets will make them safer, housing experts believe.

▪ They waited until the front door of the flat slammed.

▪ A residence was entered by forcing a front door.

end

▪ At the front end Open windows or the X Window system can be run.

▪ The front end is where he works.

▪ Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access.

▪ As I conveniently feed his front end, his droppings should cascade on to the newspapers covering the floor.

▪ The consequence of having a front end is that stimuli tend to make their impact there first.

▪ The freight train was partially derailed, with its shattered front end resting close to a home.

▪ You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end!

▪ But this porcupine had no scratch on its belly; it had been attacked at the front end instead.

entrance

▪ At the front entrance there are two wide door openings so access in and out is extremely good.

▪ Police barricades were set up at the front entrance, and police cars occasionally circled the building.

▪ As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.

▪ Returning to the front entrance, he found Hendrix still waiting for her food, smoking yet another cigarette.

▪ The steps at the front entrance were demolished and a ramp was constructed together with new steps.

▪ They had been strictly segregated from the ladies and gentlemen who entered by the front entrance and walked on carpet.

▪ She turned from the front entrance.

▪ Flats with shared front entrances are not particularly desirable either, even if they do have entry phones fitted.

garden

▪ The house was called Lilac Villa, a name no one used, though the front garden contained several ancient gnarled lilac bushes.

▪ They disappeared into the front garden of one of the houses.

▪ Soon we arrived at Tower House, a suburban-style dwelling with a large front garden.

▪ The brick walls and paving of the front garden are clean and tidy, but rather harsh.

▪ Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons' front garden.

▪ Remember your personal security when viewing front gardens.

▪ Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road.

▪ Michael and Geoffrey stood in the Griersons' front garden.

gate

▪ In autumn a rowan tree at the front gate was showered with berries.

▪ They locked the front gates of their Seoul home, my residence, and would not let me out.

▪ Motor cycles will roar away from the front gates and, later, cars.

▪ Every day seeing her husband and her boys approach the front gate.

▪ Even more daunting is a flight of 5 steps to her front gate.

▪ Once we had arrived at my place I parked the car and led Amanda through my front gate and up to the flat.

▪ Myself, I peered out of the front gate, and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box.

lawn

▪ Julie ambled happily down the long immaculate front lawn, bordered on each side by miniature fruit trees.

▪ Outside, on the front lawn hoisted atop a wooden flagpole, an eternal blank check waves bravely in the breeze.

▪ Not much to look at, because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles.

▪ It too had its imposing front lawn and luxurious emptiness.

▪ The long grass of the front lawns was luminous with golden bars of sunlight.

▪ They were tearing up the playgrounds and tearing up the front lawns and the porches.

▪ It's claimed the officers left these tyre marks on the front lawn ... and this typewritten note.

▪ Nor could he be left alone anymore in the late afternoons when he insisted on watering the front lawn.

line

▪ But the front line runs across Katanga, and the war cut people off from their fields, leaving them to starve.

▪ Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?

▪ It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.

▪ Warren Goss was among the Federals who were hugging the ground in the front lines.

▪ We really were in the front line.

▪ Guns increased in size and range during the war to enable targets far behind the front line to be hit.

▪ He argued that these were the people on the front line.

▪ Soldiers in front line, page 3.

man

▪ Camera crews and their front men cruised the available space looking for celebrities to interview.

▪ He must shed his spiky exoskeleton and become the front man.

▪ And he showed he means to make goals a top priority with the £400,000 move for Rangers livewire front man Spencer.

▪ He was a dynamic band leader and charismatic front man who sang and played saxophone, keyboard and percussion.

▪ He was a good front man, but the real work was done by his team of four assistants.

▪ Start with front man Pauly Fuemana, a New Zealander whose vocal style is almost as difficult to place as his accent.

▪ The service to the front men was much slicker, forcing Charlton back.

▪ Mr Clayton was simply a front man.

office

▪ I would have to dress and make up in a small front office.

▪ But the Negro Leagues, despite their many flaws, did have black owners, managers and front office people.

▪ All others extensions can be dialled from the front office.

▪ Which is why the front office felt it was just as crucial to find another dependable reliever as it was another starter.

▪ The drive to integrate back and front office systems among tour and ferry operators is similarly driving revenues.

▪ The front office deserves credit, too, for making the right trades at the right time.

▪ The job can be particularly hectic for front office managers around check-in and check-out time.

▪ Coaching and the front office have a lot to do with winning and losing, too.

page

▪ This overflowed into front page news all over the world, even in papers which do not have a fashion page.

▪ But two and a half years later he was front page news.

▪ One day she wakes up, sees all that creepiness splashed across the front page.

▪ He was summarily dismissed from his job and the scandal broke on the front pages of Britain's national press.

▪ Then the New York stock market crashed, and I got pushed off the front pages.

▪ The specialist brochures should have a suitable front page which relates to the interests of the target group.

passenger

▪ In the front passenger seat, the Campbell.

▪ Storage space for front passengers is skimpy, limited to door pockets and a small center console.

▪ Stopped at traffic lights, he glanced down at the envelope lying in the shadows on the front passenger seat.

▪ Her friend Maya McGhee, also 16, was in the front passenger seat.

▪ As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.

▪ The front passenger could do with sturdy grab rail on the dash.

▪ Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind.

▪ The central locking didn't secure or unlock the front passenger door and all the locks felt rather stiff and gritty.

porch

▪ The front porch was added in 1751 after the Springetts had had enough of the south-westerly winds.

▪ Ellie McGlynn was there, standing by herself on the front porch.

▪ He glared at Yanto with genuine dislike as he stomped through the front porch of the pub.

▪ So Johnny Appleseed lay down on the front porch and went to sleep.

▪ The front porch which has various door openings gives excellent room for cooking and storing the rest of your gear.

▪ She was on the front porch, with Oxie and Fogarty still on the sofa.

▪ The front porch has various door openings with room to shelter when cooking and to store gear.

▪ The roof leaked, and the front porch was falling off.

room

▪ It was a sight as familiar to me as my own front room.

▪ There in the front room were our chairs lined up in a straight row, just as Mandon had placed them.

▪ I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room.

▪ He went quickly through the house to the front room and drew back the curtains.

▪ The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.

▪ Roland Major sat in the middle of the front room that had already been cleaned and refused to help.

▪ Tom put the blacks up in the front room, crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps.

▪ Alice said a quick hello and tried to hurry into the front room, but Duvall called her back.

row

▪ Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger.

▪ He knew he could abuse the front row as much as he wanted.

▪ He walked without hesitation to the very front row, sat down and lay back, gazing up at the screen.

▪ Hector sits in the back seat of the front row, nearest the door.

▪ Assuming he is fit, he will again share the front row of the grid with his Williams team-mate, Riccardo Patrese.

▪ They would sit there in the front row.

▪ The caption alongside notes that George Davies, aged 19, is in the front row on the far right.

▪ Out of deference to me, and for the eventual eradication of our corneas, we sat in the absolute front row.

runner

▪ The new front runner is New Zealand, co-hosts of the inaugural 1987 World Cup.

▪ During the fourth round he wavered, the way tournament-long front runners invariably do.

▪ Members might like to note that Crich is a front runner for next summer's trip.

▪ Wild Bill Clinton shows he's a real front runner when tackling the big issues.

▪ The consensus seemed to be emerging: it was an open race but Samuel was clearly the front runner.

▪ The front runners will, therefore, be zones charges by distance or time and congestion metering.

▪ Aunt May is only the front runner.

seat

▪ No bush was present on either front seat buckle of G-AYIH.

▪ The two that were in the front seats are alive.

▪ Dominating the space between the two front seats are two grey painted wooden vertical wheels with chunky cut-outs around their periphery.

▪ There was a driver in the front seat.

▪ He fell back across the front seats and started being sick.

▪ Then he sat his boxed bear on the front seat beside him and went for a drive.

▪ Soon Professor Cousins himself was snoring in the front seat.

▪ Mike was driving, and Penny was in the front seat.

tooth

▪ A gleam of light showed its crossed front teeth.

▪ He was missing two front teeth, and his hair was cut short in a burr.

▪ You could dig for ever and you wouldn't come up with enough gold to fill your front teeth in.

▪ His four front teeth are through and two more in the upper jaw are pressing.

▪ A raisin lodged unattractively between Heather's front teeth but I chose not to tell her about it.

▪ One of his top front teeth is missing, and there are wide spaces between the others.

▪ Breathe slowly and rhythmically, pressing the tip of your tongue against the back of your upper front teeth.

▪ Mr Hendricks ordered until Billy opened his mouth, revealing the black gap of a missing front tooth.

wheel

▪ So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel.

▪ The front wheels threw fist-sized pieces of prairie through the windows.

▪ He let go the clutch, lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank, sand-spit dead ahead.

▪ On our way to Montana our right front wheel come off and we were stranded on the road most all that day.

▪ I distinctly remember seeing a few of the eggs hitting the spokes of his front wheel as he slowed down.

▪ A stone had been dislodged by the front wheel and had punctured our diesel tank.

▪ There should not be any grease in the front wheel bearings, they are lubricated with the oil in the swivel housings.

▪ The pedals were fitted with toe-traps, which ensured that I landed chin first in whatever caused the front wheel to skid.

window

▪ The sun was brilliantly mirrored in the front windows.

▪ Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills, but the window above my bed butted the neighbour's garage.

▪ Between the front windows was a small mahogany table, over which hung a matching mirror.

▪ I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window.

▪ Indeed, as we draw closer, our information is confirmed by the chipped and faded lettering on the front window.

▪ His deviousness and dishonesty were in the front window for all to see.

▪ So I shall have to slip into my flat by the front window.

yard

▪ The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.

▪ Lost Jaguar and butterflies Next door, Steve Fischer waded through his front yard.

▪ Old bicycles and a long-disused pram are scattered across the muddy front yard.

▪ The guy was standing knock-kneed in his front yard holding a quarter chicken by the end of the drumstick.

▪ This generation fed on the advertisement-ridden local paper, thick as a book, which was tossed daily on to their front yards.

▪ And the minute she saw the dress and shoes sitting in the front yard, she broke water.

▪ But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.

▪ The third woman went to pull a weed in her front yard and a rattler bit her hand.