crawl front crawl
Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
front-porch campaigning
front-porch campaign | a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel, William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in , her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign |
bellbottom trousers
bell-bottoms
bellbottom pants | trousers with legs that flare, worn by sailors, absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the s |
| box pleat | a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it |
chanfron
chamfron
testiere
frontstall
front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
fly
fly front | an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth |
| front | the side that is seen or that goes first |
| front bench | any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers |
front door
front entrance | exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building |
| front porch | a porch for the front door |
| front projector | a projector for digital input |
| front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
| inverted pleat | a box pleat reversed so that the fullness is turned inward |
| kick pleat | pleat in back of a straight skirt to allow ease in walking |
| knife pleat | a single pleat turned in one direction |
living room
livingoom
sitting room
front room
parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
long trousers
long pants | trousers reaching to the foot |
pleat
plait | any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape |
sunburst pleat
sunray pleat | knife pleat cut on the bias to produce a flared effect |
front tooth
anterior | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth, his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
| front | the outward appearance of a person, he put up a bold front |
front matter
prelims | written matter preceding the main text of a book |
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
DFLP
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PDFLP | a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change, in the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
IBDA-C | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul, a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO |
| Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front | a terrorist group formed in as the armed wing of the Chilean Communist Party |
| Moranzanist Patriotic Front | a terrorist group of radical leftists formed in the late s, seeks to prevent the United States from intervening in Honduran economic and political affairs |
| Moro Islamic Liberation Front | a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros, have clashed with troops at United States bases |
National Liberation Front of Corsica
FLNC | a terrorist group formed in to work for Corsican independence, attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism |
Palestine Liberation Front
PLF
Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah | a terrorist group formed in as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, became a satellite of al-Fatah, made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PFLP | a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in after the Six-Day War, combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism, used terrorism to gain attention for their cause, hoped to eliminate the state of Israel |
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
PFLP-GC | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe |
Popular Struggle Front
PSF | a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in but now have close relations with al-Fatah, staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party
Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
Revolutionary United Front
RUF | a terrorist group formed in the s in Sierra Leone, seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions, responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities, sponsored by the president of Liberia |
| home front | the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war |
| popular front | a leftist coalition organized against a common opponent |
movement
social movement
front | a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals, he was a charter member of the movement, politicians have to respect a mass movement, he led the national liberation front |
| common front | a movement in which several individuals or groups with different interests join together, the unions presented a common front at the bargaining table |
Northern Alliance
United Front | a multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban |
front
front end
forepart | the side that is forward or prominent |
battlefront
front front line | the line along which opposing armies face each other |
| front | the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer, he walked to the front of the stage |
presence
front | the immediate proximity of someone or something, she blushed in his presence, he sensed the presence of danger, he was well behaved in front of company |
wave front
wavefront | (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium |
front man
front
figurehead
nominal head
straw man
strawman | a person used as a cover for some questionable activity |
| front | (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses |
| warm front | the front of an advancing mass of warmer air |
cold front
polar front | the front of an advancing mass of colder air |
occluded front
occlusion | (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft |