Shpitzel vs. Front — What's the Difference?
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Shpitzel
A shpitzel (Yiddish: שפּיצל, romanized: shpitzl) is a head covering worn by some married Hasidic women. It is a partial wig that only has hair in the front, the rest typically covered by a small pillbox hat or a headscarf.
Front
The forward part or surface, as of a building.
Shpitzel
A partial wig that reveals the wearer's hair only at the front, worn by some married Hasidic women.
Front
The area, location, or position directly before or ahead.
Front
A position of leadership or superiority.
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Front
The forehead or face, especially of a bird or other animal.
Front
Demeanor or bearing, especially in the presence of danger or difficulty.
Front
An outward, often feigned, appearance or manner
They put up a good front.
Front
Land bordering a lake, river, or street.
Front
A promenade along the water at a resort.
Front
A detachable part of a dress shirt covering the chest; a dickey.
Front
The most forward line of a combat force.
Front
The area of contact between opposing combat forces; a battlefront.
Front
(Meteorology) The interface between air masses of different temperatures or densities.
Front
A field of activity
The economic front.
Front
A group or movement uniting various individuals or organizations for the achievement of a common purpose; a coalition.
Front
A nominal leader lacking in real authority; a figurehead.
Front
An apparently respectable person, group, or business used as a cover for secret or illegal activities.
Front
The first part; the beginning.
Front
The face; the countenance.
Front
Of, relating to, aimed at, or located in the front
The front lines.
The front row.
Front property on Lake Tahoe.
Front
(Linguistics) Designating vowels produced at or toward the front of the oral cavity, such as the vowels of green and get.
Front
To look out on; face
A house that fronts the ocean.
Front
To meet in opposition; confront.
Front
To provide a front for.
Front
To serve as a front for.
Front
(Music) To lead (a group of musicians)
"Goodman ... became the first major white bandleader to front an integrated group" (Bill Barol).
Front
(Informal) To provide before payment
"In ... personal liability suits, a lawyer is fronting both time and money" (Richard Faille).
Front
(Linguistics) To move (a word or phrase) to the beginning of a clause or sentence, typically for emphasis or contrast.
Front
(Linguistics) To cause (a vowel) to be pronounced farther toward the front of the oral cavity.
Front
To have a front; face onto something else
Her property fronts on the highway.
Front
To provide an apparently respectable cover for secret or illegal activities
Fronting for organized crime.
Front
Used by a desk clerk in a hotel to summon a bellhop.
Front
The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
Front
The side of a building with the main entrance.
Front
A field of activity.
Front
A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
Front
(meteorology) 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.
We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
Front
(military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
Front
(military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
Front
(military) The direction of the enemy.
Front
(military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
Front
(historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
Front
(dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
Front
(informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
You don't need to put on a front. Just be yourself.
Front
(historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
Front
The most conspicuous part.
Front
The beginning.
Front
(UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
Front
(obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Front
The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
Front
A grill jewellery worn on front teeth.
Front
Located at or near the front.
The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
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).
Front
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.
Front
To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
Front
(transitive) To face, be opposite to.
Front
(transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
Front
(transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
Front
To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
Front
To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
Front
To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
Front
(transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
Front
(ambitransitive) Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
Front
To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
Front
To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
Front
To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
Front
(transitive) To appear before.
To front court
Front
The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
Front
The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front;
With smiling fronts encountering.
The inhabitants showed a bold front.
Front
The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; - the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
Had he his hurts before?Ay, on the front.
Front
A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.
Front
The most conspicuous part.
The very head and front of my offending.
Front
That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.
Front
The beginning.
Front
All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified.
Front
The middle of the upper part of the tongue, - the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, 10.
Front
The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word "front," used as an exclamation.
Front
Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
Front
To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
You four shall front them in the narrow lane.
Front
To appear before; to meet.
[Enid] daily fronted himIn some fresh splendor.
Front
To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
And then suddenly front the changed reality.
Front
To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
Front
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
Yonder walls, that pertly front your town.
Front
To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
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
Front
The side that is forward or prominent
Front
The side that is seen or that goes first
Front
A sphere of activity involving effort;
The Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front
They advertise on many different fronts
Front
The line along which opposing armies face each other
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
Front
(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
Front
A person used as a cover for some questionable activity
Front
The outward appearance of a person;
He put up a bold front
Front
The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer;
He walked to the front of the stage
Front
Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to;
The house looks north
My backyard look onto the pond
The building faces the park
Front
Confront bodily;
Breast the storm
Front
Relating to or located in the front;
The front lines
The front porch
Front
Located anteriorly
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