Front-bencher

Definition

front / frʌnt / n ၁။ (esp the front ) (က) [C usu sing ] ေရွ႕။ ေရွ႕ပိုင္း။ ဦးပိုင္း။ ေရွ႕မ်က္ႏွာစာ။ ေရွ႕ျခမ္း။ The front of the building was covered with ivy. ❍ Place the statue so that the front faces the light. ❍ The book has the author's picture on the front. ❍ The front of the car was badly damaged. ❍ Several shop fronts were damaged by the explosion. ❍ You've spilt some food down your front (ie the clothes covering your chest). See also Y-FRONTS (ခ) [sing] ေရွ႕။ ေရွ႕တန္း၊ ေရွ႕ပိုင္း။ ဦးပိုင္း။ Keep your eyes to the front and walk straight ahead. ❍ The teacher made me move my seat to the front of the classroom. ❍ There's a garden at the front of the house. ❍ I prefer to travel in the front of the car (ie next to the driver). Compare BACK n ၁, REAR 1 ၁ ၂။ the front [sing] (ကမ္းေျခ) မ်က္ႏွာစာ။ walk along the (sea) front. See also PROMENADE ၃။ [ C usu sing ] ေရွ႕တန္း စစ္ မ်က္ႏွာ။ be sent to/ serve at the front ❍ The army is fighting on two fronts. ၄။ [sing] အျပင္ပန္း။ ဟန္။ Her rudeness is just a front (for her shyness). ❍ put on a bold front ❍ The prime minister stressed the need to present a united front to opposition attack . အတိုက္အခံတို႔ကို ညီၫြတ္စြာ ရင္ဆိုင္ရန္ အေရးႀကီးေၾကာင္းဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္က ေျပာၾကား သည္။ ၅။ [C usu sing ] ~ ( for sth ) ( infml ) ဟန္ျပ။ ဗန္းျပ။ The travel company is just a front for illegal drug trafficking. ၆။ [C] ေလစိုင္ဆံု။ A cold/ warm front is moving in from the west. ၇။ [C] [ဥ] စစ္မ်က္ႏွာ။ on the domestic / economic/ education front ❍ The government has acted swiftly on several fronts to tighten security. adj ေရွ႕။ မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး။ on the front page of the newspaper ❍ front teeth ❍ the horse's front legs ❍ the front wheels of the car ❍ They keep the front room for visitors. ❍ the front door (ie the door that serves as the main entrance to a house) ❍ get a front seat at the theatre (ie near and with a good view of the stage). Compare BACK adj ၁ , REAR 1 ၁, HIND adj ၁ v ၁။ ~ (onto) sth မ်က္ႏွာျပဳသည္။ မ်က္ႏွာမူသည္။ ဦးတည္သည္။ မ်က္ႏွာစာတြင္ရိွသည္။ hotels that front onto the sea. ❍ Attractive gardens fronted the houses. ၂။ မ်က္ႏွာစာကို ဆင္ယင္သည္။ a house fronted with Cotswold stone ❍ a glass -fronted bookcase. ၃။ ( infml ) (က) ေရွ႕တန္းတင္ ထားသည္။ ဦးေဆာင္သည္။ a company fronted by a former rock star. (ခ) ( Brit ) ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား အစီအစဥ္ကို တင္ျပသည္။ Dan Davies will front tonight's discussion on race relations. ❏ the front bench n [CGp] ၿဗိတိသွ်လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ အစိုးရႏွင့္အတိုက္အခံပါလီမန္အမတ္မ်ား ထိုင္ရာေရွ႕ခံု ႏွစ္တန္း။ a front-bench spokesman on defence. ❏ front-bencher n ေရွ႕ခံုတန္းတြင္ ထိုင္ခြင့္ရိွေသာ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္။ Compare (THE) BACK BENCH ❏ the front line n [sing] ၁။ ေရွ႕တန္း (စစ္မ်က္ႏွာ)။ Tanks are being deployed all along the front line. ❍ front-line troops. ၂။ ေရွ႕တန္း။ in the front line of research. ❏ front man n ( infml ) ၁။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္။ ၂။ ( Brit ) ႐ုပ္ျမင္ သံၾကားအစီအစဥ္တင္ျပသူ။ ❏ front-of-house n [U] (က) (ဇာတ္႐ံု) ေရွ႕ခံုတန္း။ There was an expectant atmosphere front-of-house. (ခ) ပြဲၾကည့္ပရိသတ္ ဆိုင္ရာ။ the front-of-house manager. ❏ front-page adj မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး (သတင္း)။ front-page news. ❏ front runner n ေရွ႕ကေျပးေနသူ။ He is one of the front runners in the Presidential election. ❏ in front adv ၁။ ေရွ႕တြင္။ ေရွ႕မွာ။ a building with a statue in front . ❍The children walked in twos with one teacher in front and one behind. ၂။ ေရွ႕မွ။ ေရွ႕မွာ။ ေရွ႕က။ Car number 23 has overtaken the leader and is now in front. Compare BEHIND adv part ❏ in front of prep ၁။ ေရွ႕မွ။ ေရွ႕မွာ။ ေရွ႕က။ ေရွ႕တြင္။ The car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to brake. ❍ The bus stops right in front of our house. ❍ I keep a photograph of my family in front of me on the desk. ❍ She's entitled to put ‘Professor’ in front of her name. Compare BEHIND prep ❍ BEFORE prep ၂။ ေရွ႕တြင္။ ေရွ႕မွာ။ The cheques must be signed in front of the cashier at the bank. ❍ Please don't talk about it in front of the children. ❏ out front [ IDM ] (ဇာတ္႐ံု) ေရွ႕ခံုတန္း။ ❏ put on, show, etc a bold/ brave front [ IDM ] ဟန္ကိုယ့္ဖို႔ဟူ၍ တင္းထားသည္။ ❏ up front [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႀကိဳတင္ေပးေငြ။ စရန္ေငြ။ We'll pay you half up front and the other half when you've finished the job.

Examples

1. House/shop fronts (=the parts that face the road)
2. [the front of something] : Attach a recent photograph to the front of your application.
3. [on the front] : A book with a picture of a tiger on the front
4. [down the front] : The dress had buttons down the front.
5. I always sleep on my front.
6. Go round to the front and I’ll let you in.
7. [the north/south/east/west front of something] : Monet’s famous series of paintings of the west front of Rouen cathedral
8. The glasses are in the cabinet near the front.
9. [in/at the front (of something)] : Tom was sitting at the front of the bus.
10. The man at the front of the queue
11. If you can’t see the blackboard
12. come and sit at the front.
13. He had signed his name in the front of the book.
14. There’s bad news on the job front – two factories are going to close.
15. His main problems were in maths and science
16. but he has made progress on both fronts.
17. [front for] : They kept a shop as a front for dealing in stolen goods.
18. He always pretended he didn’t care but we knew it was just a front.
19. [put on a front] : She’s putting on a brave front
20. but she’s really very worried.
21. A warm/cold front
22. The National Liberation Front
23. A walk along the front