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 |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper tichodrome Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
chanfron chamfron testiere frontstall front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
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 |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
hanging wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
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 |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
proscenium proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |
wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard drywall dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket wall plug electric outlet electrical outlet outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
front tooth anterior | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth, his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
wall paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
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 |