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Definition
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front
它在电脑前吗?Is it in front of the computer?
- forward
- ahead
- first
- ago
- before
- preceding
- former
- formerly
Compounds (8)
to clip; shear; scissors; shears; clippers; to cut (with scissors); to trim; to exterminate; to wipe out; to divide; to separate
Related words (230)
front desk; reception desk; front platform; front of theatrical stage; foreground (in politics for instance, sometimes derogatory)
front-line; forward position; outpost; extending ahead; frontier (of science, technology etc)
front door; main entrance; honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter)
alveolar nasal; consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar ridge
hanging in the balance; the future is hard to forecast; ¿Qué serà?; who knows what the future holds?
(lit.) chest sticking to back; (fig.) famished; (of several persons) packed chest to back
to surpass all others of its kind before and since; to have neither predecessors nor successors
to move forwards; forward; forth; onward; before; formerly; in the past; ahead; in front
(in) advance; to advance; to bring forward; beforehand; ahead (of time); move up (a date); shift to an earlier date; to put ahead of schedule; to do something in advance
to be ahead of one's time; to surpass or outdo one's predecessors; to be ahead of the pack; to take the lead; advanced
to set out in advance to make arrangements (board, lodging etc); (military) to dispatch an advance party
unprecedented and never to be duplicated; the first and the last; unmatched; unique
alveolar; consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge
to trip forwards or stumble back (idiom, from Book of Songs); can't get anything right
(lit.) the horse loses its front hooves; (fig.) sudden failure through miscalculation or inattentiveness
Idioms (34)
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades; advancing wave upon wave
to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom); all that has been achieved goes down the drain
(lit.) to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom); fig. needless fears; scare mongering; reds under the beds
facing a powerful enemy (idiom); fig. confronting grave difficulties; Enemy at the Gates, 1991 movie by Jean-Jacques Annaud
thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind; to consider repeatedly
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future; to ponder over reasons and connection
(lit.) to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
(lit.) amidst the flowers under the moonlight (idiom); (fig.) romantic surroundings
completely correcting one's former misdeeds (idiom); to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf; a reformed character
five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
(lit.) When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through. (idiom); (fig.) Everything will turn out for the best.; Let's worry about it when it happens.; It will be all right on the night.; cf couplet 車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直|车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直
(lit.) When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through. (idiom); (fig.) Everything will turn out for the best.; Let's worry about it when it happens.; It will be all right on the night.; cf couplet 車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直|车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直
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