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Definition of "front-end" []

  • Of or relating to the initial phase of a project: a front-end investment. (adjective)
  • Of or relating to the forward parts of a vehicle: a front-end alignment. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "front-end" in a sentence
  • "* Its Flickr search doesn't seem capable of finding groups on Yahoo's photo-sharing site, while its YouTube front-end was far more useful, allowing find-as-you-type searching through that site's vast catalog."
  • "This afternoon I took a little time to work on some changes in Acire; my little graphical front-end to a library of Python Snippets."
  • "As for gedit being a better place, that would tie people into using GEdit as an editor: the goal of the project is that the snippets should be available anywhere – I am really keen to see a variety of interfaces, and Acire was my effort at producing a front-end."
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