前

porch; portico; colonnaded entranceway; ante-hall

Medicine

anterior cingulate cortex

placket (clothing); facing

self-contradiction; self-inconsistency

front matter (of a book); preliminaries

unprecedented; unheard-of; never propounded (discovered, invented) by anyone before

underlying technology; technical premise; precursor technology

Dentistry

premolar

front-wheel drive

skirmish; prefinals (in games)

previous line

apron stage

headlight (on a vehicle)

front of the head

Sumo

preliminary bouts with unranked wrestlers; unranked wrestlers

Computing

forward reference

open in front

fore edge (of a book)

Proverb; From the Book of Han

learn wisdom from the follies of others; learn from others' mistakes; the toppling over of the cart in front serves as a warning for the cart behind

Braxton-Hicks contractions; practice contractions; false labor pains

previous conviction

paying in advance

Idiomatic expression

to repeat someone's mistake; to make the same mistake as one's predecessor; to follow the ruts of a previous cart

one's former post