front
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answer
face
nose
witherward
about turn
forenenst
adverse
counteradvise
reverse
antipodes
antipode
opposed
turn round
contrapose
oppositely
foregain
foregainst
counter
opposite
vis-à-vis
enantio-
gain-
confront
shrug off
antiextreme
on
versus
regard
mate
unliken
eschew
poor relation
inwardly
anti
opposing
give someone the cold shoulder
180
declaim
dissimilate
opposingly
pit
alienating
contra
counterpole
inveigh
retro-
abhor
gainstay
bidirectionally
heterofacial
escape
bedraw
counter-
contrary
antonymous
against
turn one's back
with-
counterpoint
encounter
inferiorize
antiexpressive
make head against
rejective
close one eye
antithesis
diametric
offset
differently
anti-
counterdirectional
brazen
inferiorly
balk
think better of
comonad
discordant
contrastive
fly in the face of
contrasting
dislike
prejudicious
contra-
abhorrent
kowtow
countersense
rejectingly
bizarro
counterweigh
adverse
opposed
reverse
anti
opposing
alienating
heterofacial
witherward
contrary
antonymous
antiexpressive
rejective
counter
diametric
counterdirectional
discordant
contrastive
contrasting
prejudicious
abhorrent
bizarro
witherward
oppositely
inwardly
opposingly
bidirectionally
counter
differently
inferiorly
rejectingly
reverse
antipodes
antipode
counter
opposite
antiextreme
poor relation
180
counterpole
contrary
antithesis
comonad
countersense
front
contradict
answer
face
nose
about turn
counteradvise
turn round
contrapose
confront
shrug off
regard
mate
unliken
eschew
give someone the cold shoulder
declaim
dissimilate
pit
inveigh
abhor
gainstay
escape
bedraw
turn one's back
counterpoint
encounter
inferiorize
make head against
close one eye
offset
brazen
balk
think better of
fly in the face of
dislike
kowtow
counterweigh
verb
- To face, be opposite to.
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
noun
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To make a reply or response to.
- To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
noun
verb
- be opposite
- deal with (something unpleasant) head on
- oppose, as in hostility or a competition
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction
- present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
- turn so as to expose the face
- line the edge (of a garment) with a different material
- cover the front or surface of
noun
- the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the general outward appearance of something
- the striking or working surface of an implement
- a part of a person that is used to refer to a person
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- the part of an animal corresponding to the human face
- the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object)
- a contorted facial expression
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- status in the eyes of others
- impudent aggressiveness
- a vertical surface of a building or cliff
verb
- To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
- To furnish with a nose.
- To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- To snoop.
- To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
noun
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- A downward projection from a cornice.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- A perfumer.
- An informer.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- The power of smelling.
- Skill at finding information.
- The tip of an object.
noun
- The opposite of something.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
adj
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
verb
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
verb
- To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- To revolve or rotate around a centre.
- To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- An antonym.
- An additive inverse.
adv
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
prep
prep
noun
- One of two (or more) people facing or opposite each other.
- A small horse-drawn carriage for two people sitting facing each other.
- A sofa with seats for two people, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
- A person holding a corresponding position in another organisation.
- A date or escort in a social event.
adj
adv
prefix
verb
- To come up against; to encounter.
- To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
- To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- To deal with.
- To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
- To engage in confrontation.
- To bring someone face to face with something.
prep
- Against; in opposition to.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
verb
noun
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
adj
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
verb
- To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
- To arrange in matched pairs.
- To copulate with.
- To match, fit together without space between.
- To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- To copulate.
- To marry; to match (a person).
- To pair in order to raise offspring.
- To fit (objects) together without space between.
noun
- Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- A breeding partner.
- In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- A first mate.
- A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
verb
- To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
- To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
noun
- A mine.
- A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- The bottom part of something.
- Armpit.
- A mosh pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- A bed.
- A luggage hold.
- A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
- A hole in the ground.
- The emergency department.
- The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- A pit bull terrier.
- A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
- Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- A trading pit.
- A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- The center of the line.
- Only used in the pits.
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
prep
verb
noun
- A deal to swap goods or services.
- A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- A contra dance.
adv
noun
verb
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
noun
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- escape key
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- A successful shot from a snooker position.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- An apophyge.
prefix
prep
- In opposition to.
- In a contrary direction to.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- In competition with, versus.
- In front of; before (a background).
- Close to, alongside.
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- In exchange for.
- To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- As counterbalance to.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- As a charge on.
verb
noun
verb
- To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- To execute someone extrajudicially.
- To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
noun
- A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between people not in a sexual relationship, that usually does not lead to the establishment of a relationship, and may or may not happen again. A sexual encounter could be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is a sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- A match between two opposing sides.
- An extrajudicial killing or execution.
verb
verb
- To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- To place out of line.
noun
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
prefix
- Against, hostile to.
- Related to antiparticles or antimatter.
- Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.
- Opposite of, reverse.
- Indicating that a game's conventional victory conditions have been reversed: misère.
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- Contrasting with the norm.
- That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
verb
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
prefix
adv
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