'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
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
- accept,
- account,
- acknowledge,
- acting,
- admit,
- affectation,
- affront,
- air,
- allow,
- anteriority,
- anticipate,
- apparently,
- appear,
- appearance,
- apply paint,
- approach,
- arrive,
- arrogance,
- ascender,
- aspect,
- atrocity story,
- attitudinizing,
- audacity,
- await,
- back,
- balls,
- banner,
- banter,
- bastard type,
- battle hymn,
- be imminent,
- be in store,
- be seen,
- beard,
- bearing,
- bedaub,
- bedizen,
- begild,
- bell the cat,
- belly,
- besmear,
- bevel,
- bid defiance,
- bite the bullet,
- black letter,
- bloody shirt,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- board,
- boastfulness,
- body,
- bold front,
- boldness,
- border,
- brashness,
- brass,
- brave,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- brazen,
- brazen out,
- brazenly,
- breast,
- brew,
- brick,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- brow,
- browbeat,
- brush on paint,
- bump heads,
- calcimine,
- call out,
- camouflage,
- candidly,
- cap,
- capital,
- carriage,
- case,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- ceil,
- challenge,
- cheating,
- cheek,
- chutzpah,
- circumference,
- clad,
- clapboard,
- cliff,
- cloak,
- clock,
- close,
- coat,
- color,
- coloring,
- colors,
- come on,
- come up against,
- Communist threat,
- complexion,
- conceit,
- confess,
- confront,
- confront with,
- confronting,
- contemplate,
- contend,
- contrapose,
- contraposit,
- contrast,
- conversion factor,
- cope with,
- cortex,
- countenance,
- counter,
- counteract,
- cover,
- covering,
- cow,
- crag,
- crostarie,
- crust,
- dab,
- dare,
- daring,
- daub,
- deal with,
- deception,
- deep-dye,
- defy,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- descender,
- despite,
- dial,
- dignity,
- dip,
- directly,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distemper,
- double-dare,
- double-dye,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- draw on,
- dread,
- dress,
- dye,
- effrontery,
- em,
- emblazon,
- en,
- enamel,
- encounter,
- engild,
- envelope,
- envisage,
- epidermis,
- escarpment,
- evidently,
- expansionism,
- expect,
- experience,
- expression,
- exterior,
- external,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- facade,
- face down,
- face out,
- face the music,
- face to face,
- face up,
- face up to,
- face upon,
- face value,
- face with,
- facet,
- facia,
- facial appearance,
- facies,
- facing,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fast-dye,
- fat-faced type,
- favor,
- feather,
- feature,
- features,
- feet,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fiery cross,
- fight,
- fill,
- finish,
- font,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foresee,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- forthcome,
- four-flushing,
- frankly,
- fraud,
- fresco,
- fringe,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front on,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- fur,
- gall,
- garb,
- gather,
- gaze,
- gild,
- gilt,
- give upon,
- glare,
- glass,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- gonfalon,
- grain,
- grimace,
- groove,
- guise,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- hang over,
- haughtiness,
- have in mind,
- head,
- heading,
- high place,
- honor,
- hope,
- hover,
- hue,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illuminate,
- image,
- imbue,
- impend,
- imperialist threat,
- impertinence,
- imposture,
- impudence,
- in defiance of,
- in opposition to,
- in spite of,
- independence,
- ingrain,
- inlay,
- integument,
- interline,
- intimidate,
- italic,
- japan,
- kisser,
- kudos,
- lacquer,
- lap,
- lath,
- lay before,
- lay on color,
- letter,
- lie opposite,
- lie over,
- ligature,
- line,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- load,
- logotype,
- look,
- look for,
- look out upon,
- look over,
- look toward,
- looks,
- loom,
- lower,
- lower case,
- majuscule,
- make a face,
- manifest destiny,
- map,
- market value,
- martial music,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- match,
- meet,
- meet boldly,
- meet head-on,
- meet squarely,
- meet with,
- menace,
- meretriciousness,
- mien,
- minuscule,
- mug,
- mush,
- muzzle,
- name,
- national anthem,
- near,
- nerve,
- net worth,
- nick,
- notwithstanding,
- obverse,
- openly,
- oppose,
- opposite,
- ostentation,
- outdare,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outface,
- outline,
- outside,
- outward show,
- overawe,
- overhang,
- overlay,
- overlook,
- pack,
- pad,
- paint,
- palisade,
- palisades,
- pan,
- paper,
- par value,
- pardonable pride,
- parget,
- pennyworth,
- periphery,
- phiz,
- physiognomy,
- pi,
- pica,
- pigment,
- place before,
- plank,
- playacting,
- point,
- polarize,
- port,
- pose,
- pose against,
- posing,
- position,
- posture,
- precipice,
- preface,
- prefix,
- presence,
- present to,
- prestige,
- presume,
- presumption,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- prime,
- print,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- proudness,
- purse-pride,
- puss,
- put in opposition,
- put it to,
- rank,
- rate,
- representation,
- reputation,
- repute,
- resist,
- revet,
- right side,
- rind,
- roman,
- run the gauntlet,
- sans serif,
- scar,
- scarp,
- scream defiance,
- script,
- seeming,
- seemingly,
- self-confidence,
- self-consequence,
- self-determination,
- self-esteem,
- self-reliance,
- self-respect,
- self-sufficiency,
- semblance,
- set at defiance,
- set before,
- set over against,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shake,
- sham,
- shank,
- sheathe,
- shell,
- shellac,
- shingle,
- shoulder,
- show,
- show fight,
- show up,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- skin,
- slate,
- slop on paint,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- smear,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- speciousness,
- stain,
- stamp,
- stance,
- stand opposed,
- stand opposite,
- stand up to,
- standing,
- stare,
- stare down,
- station,
- stature,
- status,
- steep,
- stem,
- stiff-necked pride,
- stiff-neckedness,
- stipple,
- stone,
- stuff,
- subdue,
- subtend,
- superficially,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- take,
- take for granted,
- tete-a-tete,
- thatch,
- think,
- threaten,
- tile,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tone,
- top,
- traits,
- turn,
- turn up,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- undercoat,
- upper case,
- value,
- value received,
- vanity,
- varnish,
- veneer,
- venture,
- vis-a-vis,
- visage,
- wad,
- wainscot,
- wall,
- wall in,
- wall up,
- wallpaper,
- war song,
- wash,
- watch,
- weatherboard,
- Western imperialism,
- window dressing,
- withstand,
- worth,
- yellow peril
Acronyms for 'FACE'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Framed Access Command Environment (Unix, SVR4)
Words containing 'FACE'
- Face of a,
- Face to face,
- Faced,
- Facing,
- Facingly,
- To face down,
- To the face,
- about face,
- face down,
- face off,
- face up,
- face up to,
- on the face of it,
- face-to-face,
- A straight face,
- Cylinder face,
- Face ague,
- Face card,
- Face cloth,
- Face guard,
- Face hammer,
- Face joint,
- Face mite,
- Face mold,
- Face of a bastion,
- Face of a gun,
- Face of a place,
- Face of a square,
- Face of an anvil,
- Face of coal,
- Face plate,
- Face wheel,
- Facing brick,
- Fleeten face,
- Hippocratic face,
- Moon face,
- Quarter face,
- To face a thing out,
- To face the music,
- To fly in the face of,
- To hide the face,
- To hide the face from,
- To look in the face,
- To make a face,
- To make up a face,
- To stare in the face,
- Valve face,
- Wry face,
- about-face,
- blue in the face,
- bold face,
- bold faced,
- clock face,
- face angle,
- face cream,
- face fungus,
- face lift,
- face lifting,
- face mask,
- face pack,
- face powder,
- face recognition,
- face saver,
- face saving,
- face soap,
- face the music,
- face time,
- face towel,
- face value,
- face veil,
- face-off,
- facing pages,
- false face,
- fly in the face of,
- hatchet face,
- human face,
- in-your-face,
- long face,
- long faced,
- make a face,
- poker face,
- poker faced,
- pudding face,
- pull a face,
- red faced,
- slap in the face,
- stone faced,
- stone facing,
- straight face,
- straight faced,
- suck face,
- two faced,
- volte face,
- Bald-faced,
- Bell-faced,
- Black-faced,
- Bold-faced,
- Chub-faced,
- Copper-faced,
- Cream-faced,
- Dog-faced,
- Double-faced,
- Dough-faced,
- False-faced,
- Fiber-faced,
- Fibre-faced,
- Glass-faced,
- Half-faced,
- Janus-faced,
- Lean-faced,
- Moon-faced,
- Mulberry-faced,
- Pitch-faced,
- Platter-faced,
- Pug-faced,
- Putty-faced,
- Quarry-faced,
- Sheep-faced,
- Smock-faced,
- Tallow-face,
- Tallow-faced,
- To straighten one's face,
- Weasel-faced,
- Whey-faced,
- White-face,
- Wizen-faced,
- automatic face recognition,
- baby-faced,
- brazen-faced,
- dirty-faced,
- face-harden,
- face-lift,
- face-saving,
- full-face,
- hatchet-faced,
- long-faced,
- pale-faced,
- po-faced,
- poker-faced,
- pudding-face,
- rain-in-the-face,
- red-faced,
- right-about-face,
- round-faced,
- sad-faced,
- smooth-faced,
- stone life face,
- stone-face,
- sweet-faced,
- two-faced,
- volte-face,
- Bald-faced widgeon,
- Dog-faced baboon,
- Janus-faced lock,
- Sea-coal facing,
- To cause the face to shine upon,
- To make the face to shine upon,
- bald-faced hornet,
- black-faced crow,
- open-face sandwich,
- open-faced watch,
- white-faced hornet,
- face-amount certificate company