(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.
Mace
Definition:
(n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
(n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
(n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
(n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
(n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
(n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
(n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
(2) In the Commons, John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, covering Heathrow, was suspended for five days by the deputy speaker after he picked up the mace and shouted: "It is a disgrace."
(3) The two antimicrobial resorcinols malabaricone B [1] and malabaricone C [2] were isolated from mace, the dried seed covers of Myristica fragrans.
(4) The results demonstrate that MACE and DACE are effective photosensitizing agents in vitro and compare favorably to DHE.
(5) We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers,” says Mace Windu, apropos some urgent battle or other.
(6) Leukocytes from a normal donor, after passive sensitization with serum from patient M, released a substantial (greater than or equal to 50%) amount of histamine on challenge with extracts of coriander, mace, and curry powder.
(7) In addition, there was a significant increase in the SH content in the liver of mice fed on 1% BHA and 2% mace diets.
(8) Expressed in terms of oxygen depletion per cell the order was CASPc approximately PII greater than MACE.
(9) In a letter to the Guardian this week, Georgina Mace, professor of conservation science at Imperial College, London and Catherine Redgwell, professor of international law at UCL, said that investment in geo-engineering research had already begun and, "without international governance structures, schemes could soon be implemented unencumbered by the safeguards needed".
(10) Patterns of distribution and localization of MACE differ substantially from those observed with HPD and other hydrophobic sensitizers.
(11) Protesters trying to tend to the wounded were also maced.
(12) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical effect of mace extract and egg-white lysozyme in two brands of chewing gum on gingival condition.
(13) We have treated 47 clinical stage I or IE patients with aggressive lymphoma histologies (diffuse large-cell, diffuse mixed, diffuse immunoblastic, follicular large-cell, diffuse small-non-cleaved cell) with four monthly cycles of an eight-drug combination chemotherapy program consisting of cyclophosphamide, etoposide, doxorubicin, nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine), procarbazine, high-dose methotrexate with leucovorin rescue, and prednisone (Pro-MACE-MOPP) administered systemically followed by 40 Gy involved-field radiation therapy.
(14) Security companies have reported a 50% increase in sales of mace self-defence spray and an increased demand for armed security guards for malls and other public places, while restaurants and markets in areas judged dangerous have emptied.
(15) Bean was still tending to Martin’s brother’s stomach wound when they released mace into people’s faces, she told the Guardian.
(16) In the blood of 10 guinea pigs, which were exposed to the contents of chemical mace for 1--6 h, the solvants 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluorethane (freon 113) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane could easily be detected--even 23 h after the end of exposure or after a storage of the blood samples for 18 weeks--whereas the lacrimator chloracetophenone (CN) could not be found at all.
(17) So did Hezza's mace gesture: intended as one of despair, it looked like attempted bodily harm in the gloomy 10.30pm chamber of the pre-TV era.
(18) Forty-five previously untreated patients with intermediate or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated with the Pro-MACE-C-MOPP regimen (flexitherapy).
(19) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
(20) Contact and systemic contact-type dermatitis reactions to spices such as nutmeg, mace, cardamom, curry, cinnamon, and laurel may be rare but may well be overlooked.