What's the difference between front and frontal?

Front


Definition:

  • (n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The most conspicuous part.
  • (n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
  • (n.) The beginning.
  • (a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
  • (v. t.) To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
  • (v. t.) To appear before; to meet.
  • (v. t.) To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
  • (v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
  • (v. t.) To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
  • (v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
  • (2) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
  • (3) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (4) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (5) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (6) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
  • (7) This study demonstrated that the PE combination is effective as front-line chemotherapy.
  • (8) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (9) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
  • (10) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
  • (11) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
  • (12) In contrast, 1:1 phase locking characterized the electrical correlates of the duodenal activity front.
  • (13) The tractional resistance carried out on the laminate fronts where a treatment of only silane and resin of connection was applied, was greater where the treatment of silane was employed.
  • (14) It was quiet on the main Manshiya front near the border with Jordan, which he said had been the site of some of the heaviest army bombing in recent weeks.
  • (15) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (16) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
  • (17) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (18) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
  • (19) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
  • (20) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.

Frontal


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the front part; being in front
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.
  • (n.) Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet
  • (n.) An ornamental band for the hair.
  • (n.) The metal face guard of a soldier.
  • (n.) A little pediment over a door or window.
  • (n.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.
  • (n.) A medicament or application for the forehead.
  • (n.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
  • (2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (3) Results showed a clear relationship between subjects' baseline frontal EMG levels and the effect of the training methods.
  • (4) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (5) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
  • (6) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
  • (7) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
  • (8) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
  • (9) The alterations in DS frontal cortex included decreases in (n-6) and increases in (n-3) groups in choline and ethanolamine phosphoglycerides (CPG and EPG), as had previously been found in EPG and serine phosphoglyceride (SPG) of the DS fetal brain.
  • (10) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
  • (11) Results are interpreted in terms of a hypothesized selective effect of alcohol on frontal cortical inhibitory functions.
  • (12) For both early and late P300 peaks, ERC patterns following feedback about inaccurate performance involved more frontal sites than did those following feedback about accurate performance.
  • (13) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
  • (14) The authors report a case of total bladder duplication by frontal septum.
  • (15) Increased intensity of stereotypy was observed reaching a maximum 14 days after frontal lobe damage.
  • (16) There were no differences in brain metabolic rates in lateral cortical areas (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes).
  • (17) Dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) was studied in monkeys trained to make visually guided eye or arm movements.
  • (18) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
  • (19) Bilateral temporal epilepsies involving the limbic system on the one hand, bilateral frontal epilepsies on the other one, and P.M. status which may be paralleled, make these patients more susceptible to acute mental confusions, to acute thymic disorders, to delirious attacks.
  • (20) In 2 patients the frontally recorded SEP component P20 was lost; in one of them the activity of mainly the tangential dipole was reduced.