单词 | fronted |
释义 | frontedadj. Furnished with or having a front; formed with a front. With qualifying adverb: Having a front or countenance with a specified expression. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > front > [adjective] > having a front or fronted with fronted1615 affronted1707 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] visageda1400 maiden-faced1567 fronted1615 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > lingual > by position of tongue fronted1615 back1867 front1867 inner1867 outer1867 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. (1857) 133 Hee is so fronted with striving to discountenance knowlege, by the contempt of it, as you would think him borne to insolence. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 532 Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or shun the Goal With rapid wheels, or fronted Brigads form. View more context for this quotation 1873 A. Dobson Sundial in Vignettes in Rhyme xii So kindly fronted that you marvelled how The frequent sword-hilt had so frayed his glove. Draft additions September 2021 Grammar. Of a word, phrase, etc.: placed at the beginning of a sentence or clause, often in order to achieve a particular effect, as in fronted adverbial, fronted object, etc. Cf. front v.1 Additions, fronting n. Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > change of word order or position > specific transformations reflexed1836 pseudo-cleft1967 extraposed1972 fronted1972 extraposable1978 1972 R. S. Jackendoff Semantic Interpr. in Generative Gram. vii. 315 The only syntactic reflex of the marker Q is the eventual surface structure position of the fronted wh-word. 1980 W. Nash Designs in Prose v. 106 The fronted object in Such superstitions my grandfather was all too ready to exploit makes a close textual linkage. 2020 J. Heffer Gram. First Aid for Primary Teachers 73 Fronted adverbials are used in an interesting way in order to focus on the setting: In a messy bedroom, in a small hut,..a young boy named Vulgar threw back his covers and leapt out of bed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1615 |
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