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front end

front end

3 4.0
The part of a website or app that users see and use
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • Users praised the new design because the front end of the website is now much more interactive.

Certainly with JavaScript frameworks and front end and back end of the web, there's a lot of different styles that came and went.

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Examples

  • She specializes in creating a visually appealing front end for various online platforms.

  • A front-end dev can do responsive design through code and then sit with the designer to show progress.

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  • So remember we have a front end product, right?

  • The goal is to make this match the front end of your theme as much as possible.

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  • Any developer would come and use the data, build a Twitter like front end client application.

  • The YouTube app seems to be a web front end for well, the website YouTube.

  • Rather, they can now happen through the front end via interactive user interfaces.

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  • I am a self-employed web designer and front-end developer currently situated in Dallas, Texas.

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  • Bio: Selene M. Bowlby is a web designer and front-end web developer with over ten years of professional experience in the design industry.

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  • During the last few months, we have systematically improved both the front-end user interface and the backend server code for the Toggl main time tracking page.

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Antonyms

back end
  • Specialized
5 3.7

The part of a program that runs on a server and stores and processes data

How User-Facing

user interface
  • Specialized
19 3.5
front end
  • Specialized
3 4.0
back end
  • Specialized
5 3.7

Surface Forms

front end singular
front ends plural

Morphology

front + end

The meaning 'the part of a website or application that users see and interact with' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'front' (the side nearest a viewer) with 'end' (a part or extremity), i.e. the front-facing part of a system. This compositional pattern is common in English and in technological contexts across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely infer the meaning.

Etymology

Front end comes from the image of the front of a shop, the part people see while the work happens 'behind' it. So in websites and apps it means the part that users see and use.