Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb With the head or front first.
- adverb In open conflict; in direct opposition.
- adjective Facing forward; frontal.
- adjective With the front end foremost.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective characterized by direct opposition.
- adjective Without evasion or compromise.
- adjective Meeting front to front; used mostly of collisions between vehicles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective idiomatic
Direct ,abrupt ,blunt orunequivocal ; notprevaricating . - adjective Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.
- noun A
collision from thefront .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with the front foremost
- adverb in direct opposition; directly
- adjective characterized by direct opposition
- adjective meeting front to front
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Examples
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We have a choice: We either continue wasting scarce resources on useless programs or we address discrimination and HIV head-on.
Serra Sippel: Ugandan Tragedy, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Aid Serra Sippel 2011
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We have a choice: We either continue wasting scarce resources on useless programs or we address discrimination and HIV head-on.
Serra Sippel: Ugandan Tragedy, Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Aid Serra Sippel 2011
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Lady Castlemaine runs towards it head-on, and you must meet her there.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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But the program's organizers refused to ignore the issues and pushed the group to confront them head-on.
Joshua Stanton: Can Interfaith Dialogue Make a Difference in the Face of Middle East Setbacks? Joshua Stanton 2010
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That weekend, he and two friends were driving home from a party and were hit head-on.
At Hidden Falls Barbara Freethy 2011
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Kudos to the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, an incredible public-private partnership led by the UN Foundation, for tackling this problem head-on and committing to provide clean cookstoves to 100 million homes by 2020.
Nalini Saligram: The Impact of Pollution on People's Health Nalini Saligram 2011
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Kudos to the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, an incredible public-private partnership led by the UN Foundation, for tackling this problem head-on and committing to provide clean cookstoves to 100 million homes by 2020.
Nalini Saligram: The Impact of Pollution on People's Health Nalini Saligram 2011
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Kudos to the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, an incredible public-private partnership led by the UN Foundation, for tackling this problem head-on and committing to provide clean cookstoves to 100 million homes by 2020.
Nalini Saligram: The Impact of Pollution on People's Health Nalini Saligram 2011
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Kudos to the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, an incredible public-private partnership led by the UN Foundation, for tackling this problem head-on and committing to provide clean cookstoves to 100 million homes by 2020.
Nalini Saligram: The Impact of Pollution on People's Health Nalini Saligram 2011
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The end of the parliamentary process is an appropriate time to address these criticisms head-on and to dispel some of the prevailing myths.
A New Constitution for Hungary Tibor Navracsics 2011
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