Talk:front

New verb definition

Are we missing a definition, that of "to front court" meaning to appear in court. It's fairly common in Australia, but I wonder if it is covered by the third verb sense - To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront. - Not sure if they are the same. --Dmol 00:35, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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Rfv-sense: "To act in a haughty manner, especially as a pretence." Maybe I've been staring at this page for too long, but I don't get it. Ƿidsiþ 12:25, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Isn't this like the hip-hop sense? Listen to some Dr. Dre or Snoop Dogg and I think this might be in there. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

It's a featured word of the "chorus" in the (ick) Britney Spears song Womanizer: "Boy, don't try to front, I, I know just, just what you are, are, are." Translated (and piratical stuttering removed), it means: "Don't put on airs, pretending you're something you're not, because I see through your pretense." --EncycloPetey 04:22, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

• I've been waiting a long time to cite Britney Spears in an entry. Although I guess she probably didn't write it herself. Ƿidsiþ 05:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Looks like it's been cited. Equinox ◑ 23:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

"Exceptionally well balanced with a classic juniper front"

This described the gin in a cocktail menu I saw somewhere. Is it covered by our "beginning" sense, or does it mean something else? Equinox ◑ 19:22, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

forward direction

the direction straight ahead Face the front! 
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009

Is that meaning properly added? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:05, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

in the front

The currtent adjectival definition reads "Located at or near the front", unlike

Of, relating to, aimed at, or located in the front
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/front

Be careful
Don't use ‘the’ before front in sentences like these. Don't say, for example, ‘People were waiting in the front of the art gallery’.
https://www.wordreference.com/EnglishUsage/front#1

18. of, at, or in the front.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/front

A usage note clarifying this issue would improve the entry --Backinstadiums (talk) 14:50, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Interesting, I suppose. It's natural to say "I was IN FRONT OF xyz" but it's unusual to say "I was IN THE FRONT OF...". Usually you are at the front of something, indeed. Equinox ◑ 20:17, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

the west, north, south, east, etc. front

the west, north, south, east, etc. front: the side of a large building, especially a church, that faces west, north, etc.
the west front of the cathedral

Nothing is said about the main entrance though --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

out front

out front: in the part of a theatre, restaurant, etc. where the public sits
There's only a small audience out front tonight.

For OED it's an idiom, but I can see out refers to the point of view of the "workers", as in the kitchen of a restaurant I guess. --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:05, 20 November 2020 (UTC)