front matter
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- noun
- /frʌnt ˈmætər/
- Specialized
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material preliminar
- I will say that most of my clients are *very* resistant to putting the front matter in the back, especially for those (nonfiction) authors who have gone to great lengths to gather endorsements.
Examples
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Traditionally published books will probably continue to have front matter in the front for the next 30 years, which will cut into the amount of story you're able to taste test.
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The front matter of the textbook included the table of contents and the author's introduction.
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Each subsequent spread sets the tone as we're led into the front matter.
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After the front matter came two distinct parts, the first of just 3 pages, the second of 53.
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In the front matter of your book, it should say "a YourName or Whatever publication."
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As the front matter of the report made clear, it was a "consensus" report, with which not all members of the committee were in full agreement.
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In many academic libraries, dust jackets are discarded, leaving a browsing patron to determine the value of the book from the spine and front matter alone.
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The front matter included these lines: published on the occasion of the VIII Non-Aligned Summit in Harare (Zimbabwe) in 1986, second revised edition.
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Self-published authors actually have a great deal of control over what is shown in that 10% because they can move the copyright page, acknowledgements, author's note, and all that miscellaneous front matter to the end of the document if they prioritize providing a good sample of the story.
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The Conference of the Birds 8, designed by Farah Behbehani and published in 2009 by Thames & Hudson, is an example of what covers (and the front matter into which they lead) do when executed masterfully: initiate procession.
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Synonyms
Pages at the start of a book that come before the main text, like the title page and copyright page
Antonyms
- Specialized
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Sections at the end of a book that give extra information like appendices and an index
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is literally the combination of 'front' (at the beginning) and 'matter' (written content), so a learner who knows both words can infer it means material located at the start of a document. While specialized senses (e.g. metadata in YAML/TOML) are technical, the basic idea 'content at the front' is directly compositional and predictable.
Etymology
Front matter comes from the pages placed at the front of a book, like the title page, preface, and table of contents that appear before the story or main text. So, it now means the written pages that come before the main text.