face
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Late Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Late Latin -iēs Late Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere. In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 (miànzi) or 臉／脸 (liǎn), both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face.
Definitions
The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and…
The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- That girl has a pretty face.
- The monkey pressed its face against the railings.
One's facial expression.
- Why the sad face?
A distorted facial expression
A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- Children! Stop making faces at each other!
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The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount
The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- MAKE Money-wholesale U.S. stamps—buy mint stamps below face. Be a dealer. Send $1.00 for two giant catalogs, refunded first order. Von Stein, Bernardsville, N.J.
- Talking about buying below face, I've bought a lot of rolled coins at below face. I'm not going to pay face just to drag them to the bank and deposit them.
The mouth.
- Shut your face!
- He's always stuffing his face with chips.
Makeup
Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- I'll be out in a sec. Just let me put on my face.
Public image
Public image; outward appearance.
- Our chairman is the face of this company.
- He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.
- As the film points out, the actor became known as “the face of Aids”.
Good reputation
Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige.
- lose face
- save face
Shameless confidence
Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- You've got some face coming round here after what you've done.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, Preface to The Works This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- This is a face of her that we have not seen before.
- Poverty is the ugly face of capitalism.
Presence
Presence; sight; front.
- to fly in the face of danger
- to speak before the face of God
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
A person
A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself.
- It was just the usual faces at the pub tonight.
- He better not show his face around here no more.
A familiar or well-known person
A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- He owned several local businesses and was a face around town.
- Vincent was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge—the ultimate Face.
A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is…
A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.
The frontal aspect of something.
- The face of the cliff loomed above them.
The directed force of something.
- They turned the boat into the face of the storm.
Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road.
- They climbed the north face of the mountain.
- She wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth.
Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron
Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- A cube has six faces, each of which is a square.
The front surface of a bat.
The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the…
The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
The player character, especially as opposed to minions or other entities which might…
The player character, especially as opposed to minions or other entities which might absorb damage instead of the player character.
- When playing aggro decks, hit face whenever you can; it's not worth spending your resources to try to control the board.
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face
The exposed surface of the mineral deposit where it is being mined. Also the exposed end…
The exposed surface of the mineral deposit where it is being mined. Also the exposed end surface of a tunnel where digging may still be in progress.
A typeface.
- For the typophiles reading this, the book is attractively designed. It is set in Classic Aldine, a handsome face akin to the more popular Palatino. The designer's work is unfortunately marred by indifferent printing.
A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable
A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- The Lord make his face shine vpon thee, and be gracious vnto thee:
- My face will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it.
To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- Face the sun.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.
To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- Turn the chair so it faces the table.
- He gain'd alſo with his Forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland,
To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!
To improve the display of stock by ensuring items aren't upside down or back to front and…
To improve the display of stock by ensuring items aren't upside down or back to front and are pulled forwards.
- I've put out the stock and broken down the boxes, it's just facing left to do.
- In my first job, I learned how to operate a till and to face the store to high standards.
To be presented or confronted with
To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- We are facing an uncertain future.
- Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do.
To deal with (a difficult situation or person)
To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.
- I'll face / This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
To have the front in a certain direction.
- The seats in the carriage faced backwards.
To have as an opponent.
- Real Madrid face Juventus in the quarter-finals.
- And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.
To be the batsman on strike.
- Willoughby comes in to bowl, and it's Hobson facing.
To confront impudently
To confront impudently; to bully.
- Face not mee: thou haſt brau'd manie men, braue not me; I will neither bee fac'd nor brau'd.
- That was it. Faced by my literary hero. Nicely faced though, he was charming throughout. And it was just as I suspected; there was no way in Hell Kurt Vonnegut would acquiesce to dinner with a bunch of moon-eyed, gooey strangers.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- a building faced with marble
- These upper walls seem mainly to have been formed, not of sun- or fire-baked bricks, as at Gournia or Palaikastro, but of clay or rubble, coated with plaster or faced with gypsum slabs.
To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress
To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for…
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.
To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth
To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
To smoke (as, a joint or blunt) entirely by oneself.
- He faced that blunt in ten minutes.
Intensely.
- He's tripping face.
- She must be rolling face.
A mnemonic phrase to help remember the order of the four spaces of a musical treble clef…
A mnemonic phrase to help remember the order of the four spaces of a musical treble clef in order from the bottom to the top.
The neighborhood
- neighborfacadeTerms related to face
- neighborfaçadeTerms related to face
- neighborsurfaceTerms related to face
- neighborbaby faceHyponyms of face (noun)
- neighborgame faceHyponyms of face (noun)
- neighbormanfaceHyponyms of face (noun)
- neighborpizza faceHyponyms of face (noun)
- neighborratfaceHyponyms of face (noun)
- neighborrock faceHyponyms of face (noun)
Derived
about face, about-face, accept at face value, aface, antiface, arse about face, arseface, assface, at the coal face, baby-face, babyface, backface, bash someone's face in, beat one's face, bicycle face, biface, bitchface, bitchy resting face, blackface, blackfaced, black in the face, blockface, blow up in one's face, Boaty McBoatface, boldface, boltface, brazen-face, breakface, break someone's face, breech face, brownface, butter face, buttface, carb-face, catface, chalkface, chitty-face, chocolate face, cliff face, clitface · +373 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at face. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at face. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at face
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA