Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a face; marked with a face, as a court-card.
- Appearing as to the face; having a facial expression of a certain kind; looking.
- Having the upper or outer surface dressed or smoothed: as, a faced stone.
- Having the front, or some part of the front, covered with other material (see
face , transitive verb, 3): said of garments, as a man's coat, a woman's gown, etc., and often used compounded with the name of the material: as, silk-faced; satin-faced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces.
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- adjective slang
drunk - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
face .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination
Etymologies
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Examples
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Founded at Aberystwyth University in 1988, the label faced indifference and often hostility from the Welsh establishment for deviating from the conservative fare found at eisteddfodau (national festivals) broadcast by S4C (the Welsh-language channel).
Label of love: Ankst 2010
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The moves come as Obama is about to enter the second half of his term faced with the challenge of getting his agenda through a House of Representatives now controlled by the Republican Party and a Senate where his Democratic Party has a narrower majority.
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Prior to its official launch, the title faced some serious controversy regarding its PC version.
NGOHQ.com - News 2009
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When the label faced up where the batter could read it, the ball hit where the wood grain is tightest and, therefore, where the bat is strongest.
Crosscut 2009
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The dilemma faced is that there is a single unaccounted for military item: an "offog".
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One problem the electric cars faced is they were designed by auto engineers, not computer/electrical engineers.
Dissing Ethanol, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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McKinley again faced Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election of 1900.
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The most recent phenomena I have faced is recieving a distance education pack for one of my courses with about four pages of work by the lecturer, referring to a text book.
Academia vs. Reality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Sudanese UN female employee Lubna Hussein faced threats of imprisonment and flogging for the “sin” of wearing trousers in Khartoum - and her saga is far from over.
Global Voices in English » Egyptians React to the Sudanese “Sin” 2009
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On Wednesday, Spain faced its first general strike in eight years after the government slashed spending to ease its budget deficit that has ballooned to 11% of GDP.
European recovery hopes grow despite Ireland's swelling deficit Richard Wachman 2010
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