frontally
1
5.8
- adverb
- /frʌnˈtæli/
:
frontalmente
- The sculpture was designed to be viewed frontally to emphasize its detailed features.
- stand frontally
Not looking at the event frontally, but looking at it in a blurry fashion.
- Not looking at the event frontally, but looking at it in a blurry fashion.
Examples
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Ecclesiastical seals by the mid-twelfth century typically represented a bishop or abbot standing frontally and invariably holding a crosier and/or a book.
Academic text (1999) -
The oldest still-extant seal from St-Pierre dates to 1308, and conforming to common custom, it shows the abbot standing frontally holding a crosier in his right hand and a book in his left.
Academic text (1999) -
In both cases, one can photograph sideward or frontally, and depending on the chosen point of view, the pictures will look different.
Academic text (2008) -
By looking at the camera frontally, the colonial gaze which created the other photos is revealed.
Academic text (1998) -
Rather than volumetric, the furniture sits flat, like the screen, and frontally, as the screen ought to be.
Academic text (1998) -
Although the male and female figures are, like Olowe's, carved in two tiers, they are frontally aligned.
Academic text (1998) -
Supposing that, at this point in evolution, the species became increasingly vertical and frontally oriented in its social contacts.
Academic text (1997) -
Aside from the farmer, hunched over in profile with a sickle in hand, the rest of these tradesmen are presented frontally and seated as they work; the emphasis rests on the skill of their hands and minds rather than the toil of their physical bodies.
Academic text (2008) -
The Archangel stands frontally, dressed in an imperial purple tunic covered with a gem-studded sash called a loros (Fig. 13).
Academic text (2006) -
The equivalence of Amphion and the Gallic Hercules in the Sandi fresco is suggested by the similarity of their poses, each standing frontally with the head turned over the left shoulder, holding up the symbols of their authority for the beholder's inspection.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
In the direction someone faces or moves
42
3.9
The front of one vehicle hits the front of another in a crash
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8.2
Toward the front of the body or a body part
To move toward the front
Toward the front of something
Facing forward so the front part points ahead
Toward the front
In or towards the belly side of an animal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word frontally comes from front, a word that originally meant 'forehead'. So, to act frontally is to do something 'at the front' or 'facing forward'.