(superl.) Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
(superl.) Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
(superl.) Making a fine show or display.
(n.) A brave person; one who is daring.
(n.) Specifically, an Indian warrior.
(n.) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
(n.) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
(v. t.) To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare.
(v. t.) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(2) The Dodgers and Braves are tied 1-1 in the third inning and the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A's ALDS will start at 9:37pm EST.
(3) It is because of those brave people that we owe our lives to them.
(4) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(5) But the overall drownings seem to be going up and I don’t know if it’s older people, if it’s young men being more brave around water.” Lawrence suggested children may be failing to continue swimming and water safety education once they have basic skills.
(6) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
(7) Brain injury from a stroke has an impact on many families in the UK, so this film is not just brave and personal, it will speak to the broadest of audiences.
(8) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(9) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(10) The artist bravely offers us a more inclusive idea of who and what constitutes kin.
(11) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
(12) 2.36pm GMT Still on the luge, Italy’s Armin Zoeggler is praised for “brave sliding” but can’t improve on third place.
(13) Our team began 81 years ago – in 1932 – with the name "Boston Braves."
(14) But they were brave because they were risking future ministerial careers."
(15) "Let me assure you that our brave sentinels on the border will address any issue that happens on the border," said the foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.
(16) It was a particularly brave – or rash – thing to say given that South Carolina is one of the most heavily militarised states in America and is peppered with military bases .
(17) Something certainly shifted: perhaps it was a combination of Dave’s reassurance, the hypnosis and seeing my fellow phobics so bravely facing their fears that eventually had an effect.
(18) She wouldn't name names, but said: "What male MPs from similar areas to Bradford and Keighley would say to me from time to time was, 'Oh, you're so brave taking up these issues' – either forced marriages or grooming of girls.
(19) First, Owen doesn’t mention the most common explanation for this rightwards movement, but it still seems true that, as many people grow older, not only do they lose the brave idealism of their youth, they come to feel they have much more to lose, far more invested in conserving the status quo: homes and property, maybe shares and savings, children etc.
(20) The situation today is that artists have to be brave.
Face
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.
(n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.
(n.) That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.
(n.) Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.
(n.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
(n.) Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
(n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.
(n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To Confront impudently; to bully.
(v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.
(v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.
(v. t.) To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
(v. i.) To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
(v. i.) To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
(v. i.) To present a face or front.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(4) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(5) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(6) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
(7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(8) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(9) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(10) In subsequent experiments, both components were found to be significant and additive predictors of face recognition with no residual effect of typicality.
(11) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(12) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(13) The lymphocyte-specific phosphoprotein LSP1 associates with the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane and with the cytoskeleton.
(14) Newspapers and websites across the country have been reporting the threat facing nursery schools for weeks, from Lancashire to Birmingham and beyond.
(15) When faced with a big dilemma, the time-honoured tradition of politicians is to order an inquiry, and that is what Browne expects.
(16) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(17) What is Obama doing about the prejudice and violence faced by brown people here at home?
(18) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(19) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(20) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.