'FACE' definitions:

Definition of 'face'

(from WordNet)
noun
The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" [syn: face, human face]
noun
The feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face" [syn: expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face]
noun
The general outward appearance of something; "the face of the city is changing"
noun
The striking or working surface of an implement
noun
A part of a person that is used to refer to a person; "he looked out at a roomful of faces"; "when he returned to work he met many new faces"
noun
A surface forming part of the outside of an object; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf" [syn: side, face]
noun
The part of an animal corresponding to the human face
noun
The side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object); "he dealt the cards face down"
noun
A contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect" [syn: grimace, face]
noun
A specific size and style of type within a type family [syn: font, fount, typeface, face, case]
noun
Status in the eyes of others; "he lost face"
noun
Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek]
noun
A vertical surface of a building or cliff
verb
Deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes" [syn: confront, face up, face] [ant: avoid]
verb
Oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other" [syn: confront, face]
verb
Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" [syn: front, look, face] [ant: back]
verb
Be opposite; "the facing page"; "the two sofas face each other"
verb
Turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction; "Turn and face your partner now"
verb
Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" [syn: confront, face, present]
verb
Turn so as to expose the face; "face a playing card"
verb
Line the edge (of a garment) with a different material; "face the lapels of the jacket"
verb
Cover the front or surface of; "The building was faced with beautiful stones"

Definition of 'Face'

From: GCIDE
  • Face \Face\ (f[=a]s), n. [F., from L. facies form, shape, face, perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig. meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and akin to E. fancy. Cf. Facetious.]
  • 1. The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. [1913 Webster]
  • A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground. --Gen. ii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Mach.) (a) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object. (b) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line. (c) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Print.) (a) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc. (b) The style or cut of a type or font of type. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired. [1913 Webster]
  • To set a face upon their own malignant design. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • This would produce a new face of things in Europe. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance. [1913 Webster]
  • In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. --Gen. iii. 19. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. [1913 Webster]
  • We set the best faceon it we could. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Astrol.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. [1913 Webster]
  • This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. [1913 Webster]
  • The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. --Num. vi. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • My face [favor] will I turn also from them. --Ezek. vii. 22. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. (Mining) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done. [1913 Webster]
  • 13. (Com.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount; most commonly called face value. --McElrath. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer. [1913 Webster]
  • Face ague (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic douloureux}.
  • Face card, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack.
  • Face cloth, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
  • Face guard, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.
  • Face hammer, a hammer having a flat face.
  • Face joint (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure.
  • Face mite (Zool.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face.
  • Face mold, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, etc., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, etc.
  • Face plate. (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached. (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight.
  • Face wheel. (Mach.) (a) A crown wheel. (b) A wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.
  • face value the value written on a financial instrument; same as face[13]. Also used metaphorically, to mean apparent value; as, to take his statemnet at its face value. [1913 Webster]
  • Cylinder face (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves.
  • Face of an anvil, its flat upper surface.
  • Face of a bastion (Fort.), the part between the salient and the shoulder angle.
  • Face of coal (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification.
  • Face of a gun, the surface of metal at the muzzle.
  • Face of a place (Fort.), the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. --Wilhelm.
  • Face of a square (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a square.
  • Face of a watch, clock, compass, card etc., the dial or graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass, etc.
  • Face to face. (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance. "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face." 1 --Cor. xiii. 12. (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis [`a] vis; -- opposed to {back to back}.
  • To fly in the face of, to defy; to brave; to withstand.
  • To make a face, to distort the countenance; to make a grimace; -- often expressing dislike, annoyance, or disagreement. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Face'

From: GCIDE
  • Face \Face\ (f[=a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Faced; p. pr. & vb. n. Facing.]
  • 1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle. [1913 Webster]
  • I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To Confront impudently; to bully. [1913 Webster]
  • I will neither be facednor braved. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park; some of the seats on the train faced backward. [1913 Webster]
  • He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Mach.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. [1913 Webster]
  • To face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." --Prior.
  • To face (a thing) out, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths to face the matter out." --Shak.
  • to face the music to admit error and accept reprimand or punishment as a consequence for having failed or having done something wrong; to willingly experience an unpleasant situation out of a sense of duty or obligation; as, as soon as he broke the window with the football, Billy knew he would have to face the music. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Definition of 'Face'

From: GCIDE
  • Face \Face\, v. i.
  • 1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. "To lie, to face, to forge." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left. [1913 Webster]
  • Face about, man; a soldier, and afraid! --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To present a face or front. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'face'

From: Easton
  • Face means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the "face [R.V., 'presence'] of the Lord God" (Gen. 3:8; comp. Ex. 33:14, 15, where the same Hebrew word is rendered "presence"). The "light of God's countenance" is his favour (Ps. 44:3; Dan. 9:17). "Face" signifies also anger, justice, severity (Gen. 16:6, 8; Ex. 2:15; Ps. 68:1; Rev. 6:16). To "provoke God to his face" (Isa. 65:3) is to sin against him openly.
  • The Jews prayed with their faces toward the temple and Jerusalem (1 Kings 8:38, 44, 48; Dan. 6:10). To "see God's face" is to have access to him and to enjoy his favour (Ps. 17:15; 27:8). This is the privilege of holy angels (Matt. 18:10; Luke 1:19). The "face of Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 4:6) is the office and person of Christ, the revealer of the glory of God (John 1:14, 18).

Synonyms of 'face'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Acronyms for 'face'

From: V.E.R.A.
  • Framed Access Command Environment (Unix, SVR4)

Words containing 'FACE'