(n.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time, many of the buildings along the road have had their facades cleaned.
(2) And yet I sense a crumbling of the monumental Boris facade, the great artificial construct designed to make him prime minister, for reasons I have never understood.
(3) Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.
(4) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(5) Seven years later, the terms most frequently used to describe Mali's democracy during that era are "sham", "facade" and "empty shell".
(6) Houses with shattered windows were marked by bullet holes in their facades.
(7) "The organisers of this scam went to great lengths to provide a facade of legitimacy.
(8) They are looking into concrete formwork, the concrete that you’ll see next to the expressways, and facades of buildings.
(9) And then there is the erotic element, Scott's hint that "behind the facade of pots and pans there is sometimes another image … a private one … sensed rather than seen".
(10) Earlier in the evening, a number of demonstrators attacked a branch of Starbucks, smashing its front windows and ransacking it before shattering the facade of a clothes shop.
(11) Anti-Fifa campaigners make their Marx Anti-Fifa campaigners have spread their message in illuminating style by beaming a protest slogan on to the facade of a hotel in Rio de Janeiro where football officials were staying.
(12) The project’s co-director Max Wakefield says: “By helping people create tangible relationships with energy, we can enable an understanding of the need to reduce demand.” Despite the private tech industry’s seeming invincibility in many areas of consumer life, from copyright to privacy , there are cracks in the facade .
(13) Only once during the trial did a crack appear in his dispassionate facade.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kaisa-talo blends into the historic facade of the city There are a number of terrific old buildings in the city, but I’m going to pick Helsinki University’s new library building, Kaisa-talo.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, behind the nihilistic, numb facade of his new character, the Thin White Duke, Bowie was in trouble.
(16) Scratch at our egalitarian facade, I say, and you'll discover inequalities of means and wealth that even Louis XIV would never have dared contemplate.
(17) There is no link with the surrounding city to be found, not even a true facade.
(18) "Behind an orderly facade, the government pressured, intimidated and threatened Ethiopian voters," Rona Peligal, the acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.
(19) Behind the facade, though, North Koreans want the same things as just about everyone else - or at least that's what defector after defector has said.
(20) More profoundly, the presidency itself was revealed to be an empty facade when Putin handed it over for a term, minus its powers, to Medvedev.
Veneer
Definition:
(v. t.) To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
(v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(2) All bridges were made of type-3 casting gold and heat-cured acrylic veneering.
(3) Porcelain veneer restorations including preparations, impression materials, cast materials, refractory casts, handling of porcelain, the try-in, and the final luting are discussed.
(4) The resulting data reported on labial enamel thickness of anterior teeth may offer guidance in the preparation of laminate veneers.
(5) Based on the viewpoint that stresses the importance of achieving natural colors and forms for veneer crown, four representative kinds of thermosetting resins were investigated colorimetrically in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the thickness and color of resins in opaque, dentin and enamel colors respectively.
(6) During irradiation light-cured veneer acrylics underwent shrinking by 2.2 to 4.8%.
(7) It is expected that porcelain veneer restorations will perform successfully in esthetic, conservative and abhesive dentistry.
(8) These veneers restored the worn palatal surfaces of the anterior maxillary teeth, protected them from further wear and controlled thermal sensitivity.
(9) In children porcelain veneers provide a simple means of splinting traumatised anterior teeth which have coronal fractures either for the immediate or the long term.
(10) Only one patient exhibited any change in veneer surface texture during the study period.
(11) The ceramic veneering had worse results only in the flexural strength test compared with the two bonding systems.
(12) There is talk of putting Corbynistas into some of the key positions on the national executive: that would do nothing but give a veneer of accountability to leadership fiat.
(13) It also confirmed that the strength of the veneer was not proportional to its thickness.
(14) Sports day is simply our “getting off the boat” moment – when the savage beneath the civilised veneer finally reveals itself.
(15) Too little use is made of veneer crowns in the anterior area with increasing age (Fig.
(16) Using a simple press-molding technique, well-fitting crowns, inlays, and veneers can be fabricated without an additional ceramming procedure.
(17) Labial veneering of the pontic with Vitadur-N significantly decreased the stability compared with that of the unveneered In-Ceram framework.
(18) The failure rates ranged from 2.4 to 7.8 per cent per year for the different crowns in order of: partial veneer less than full veneer less than metal ceramic less than porcelain jacket crowns.
(19) An in vitro model has been developed simulating a composite laminate veneer restoration, along with methods to mimic the environmental conditions to which these restorations are subjected in vivo.
(20) The disadvantages of these techniques were discussed and an alternative treatment with laminate veneers was provided.