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 |
chanfron
chamfron
testiere
frontstall
front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
facade
frontage
frontal | the face or front of a building |
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 |
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 |
synagogue
temple tabernacle | (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation |
| temple | place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity |
| temple | an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes |
Temple of Apollo
Oracle of Apollo
Delphic oracle
oracle of Delphi | (Greek mythology) the oracle at Delphi where a priestess supposedly delivered messages from Apollo to those who sought advice, the messages were usually obscure or ambiguous |
| Temple of Artemis | a large temple at Ephesus that was said to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world |
Temple of Jerusalem
Temple of Solomon | any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship, the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in BC, the second was built in BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great inBC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD , all that remains is the Wailing Wall |
front tooth
anterior | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth, his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
| temple | the flat area on either side of the forehead, the veins in his temple throbbed |
| 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 |
facade
window dressing | a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant |
| temple orange | large sweet easily-peeled Florida fruit with deep orange rind |
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 |
Black Shirley Temple Black
Shirley Temple | popular child actress of the 's (born in ) |
| front | (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses |