Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The leading portion of a cold atmospheric air mass moving against and eventually replacing a warm air mass.
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- n. A cold front is the leading edge of an advancing mass of cold air.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the front of an advancing mass of colder air
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Examples
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The National Weather Service predicted a cold front due in twenty-four hours with a seventy percent chance of rain below forty-one-hundred feet and snow at the higher elevations.
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The fire had burned steadily but unremarkably until the cold front moved in over the Cascades.
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A cold front rolls over a mountain range; a brother is burned to death; a man named Nims is knifed in the back; Frederick notices he may be falling in something — "love" for lack of a better word; Joshua Short, alleged arsonist, sets a fire that overruns a spike camp where his sister has been dispatched.
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