Front
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- Front (military)Front (military)A military front or battlefront is a contested armed frontier between opposing forces. This can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater...
, area where armies are engaged in conflict- Front (Russian Empire)Front (Russian Empire)Front was the term used by the Russian Empire during the First World War for the largest fighting formation. The term was also later used by the Red Army Front was the term used by the Russian Empire during the First World War for the largest fighting formation. The term was also later used by...
, Front (Soviet Army)Front (Soviet Army)A front was a major military organization in the Soviet Army during many wars. It was roughly equivalent to an army group in the militaries of most other countries except Germany...
, types of military formations
- Front (Russian Empire)
- Front (sociology), term used by Goffman
- Front organizationFront organizationA front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations...
- Ice frontIce frontAn ice front is the place where a glacier thins and ends. The ice front's position changes as the glacier moves or melts....
of a glacier - Front of a coin (see Obverse and reverseObverse and reverseObverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags , seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics. In this usage, obverse means the front face of the object and reverse...
) - Grill (jewelry)Grill (jewelry)thumb|A gold dental grillIn hip hop culture, a grill is a type of jewelry worn over the teeth. Grills are made of metal and are generally removable. They began to be worn by hip hop artists in the early 1980s, but they became widely popular during the mid-2000s due to the rise of Dirty South rap...
, also known as "front", jewelry for teeth - Weather frontWeather frontA weather front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena. In surface weather analyses, fronts are depicted using various colored lines and symbols, depending on the type of front...
proper noun
- The FrontThe FrontThe Front is a 1976 film drama about the Hollywood blacklist during the age of live television. It is written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel....
, 1976 film - The Front, now part of the Delaware Park-Front Park System, in Buffalo, New York, United States
- The Front (Canadian band)The Front (Canadian band)The Front was a Canadian band, based in Toronto, that released two well-received albums and several singles in the early 1980s, the most notable single of which is "The Haunting "...
, a Canadian studio band from the 1980s - "The Front" (The Simpsons episode)The Front (The Simpsons)"The Front" is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons fourth season, and originally aired in the United States on the Fox network on April 15, 1993. In the episode, Bart and Lisa decide to write an episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show; after their script is rejected, they resubmit it under the name...
- Front (magazine)Front (magazine)Front was first published by Cabal Communications in 1998, it was created to rival IPC's publication Loaded, catering to a demographic of 16- to 25-year-old males. It began as part of the British "lads' mag" genre of magazines though the covers rejects this description with the statement "Front is...
, British men's magazine - Front, Piedmont, Italian municipality
- Front, California, former name of Brown, CaliforniaBrown, CaliforniaBrown is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad north-northwest of Inyokern, at an elevation of 2392 feet ....
- Front Illustrated Paper, Yugoslav Peoples Army publication
See also
- Front end (disambiguation)
- Front vowelFront vowelA front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far in front as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Front vowels are sometimes also...
- In politics: Popular frontPopular frontA popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal forces as well as socialist and communist groups...
, united frontUnited frontThe united front is a form of struggle that may be pursued by revolutionaries. The basic theory of the united front tactic was first developed by the Comintern, an international communist organisation created by revolutionaries in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.According to the theses of...
, national frontNational FrontThe name National Front is used by a number of political parties and coalitions.* Albania — National Front * Belarus — Partyja BPF* Belgium — National Front * Botswana — Botswana National Front... - Altar frontal, hanging in front of a Christian altarAltarAn altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes. Altars are usually found at shrines, and they can be located in temples, churches and other places of worship...
- Coronal plane, or "frontal plane"
- Frontal boneFrontal boneThe frontal bone is a bone in the human skull that resembles a cockleshell in form, and consists of two portions:* a vertical portion, the squama frontalis, corresponding with the region of the forehead....
- Frontal lobeFrontal lobeThe frontal lobe is an area in the brain of humans and other mammals, located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere and positioned anterior to the parietal lobe and superior and anterior to the temporal lobes...
of the human brain - Frontal scale in a reptile