Face vs Body - What's the difference?
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(lb) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
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The public image; outward appearance.
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The frontal aspect of something.
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(lb) Presence; sight; front.
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*: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.
The directed force of something.
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Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See'' lose face''', ' save face ).
Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
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(lb) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
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*(Bible), (w) ii.6:
*:A mistwatered the whole face of the ground.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face .
The numbered dial of a clock or watch.
(lb) The mouth.
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(lb) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
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Short for babyface. A wrestler whose on-ring persona is embodying heroic or virtuous traits. Contrast with heel.
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(lb) The front surface of a bat.
(lb) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
(lb) 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).
(lb) A typeface.
Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
*(Bible), (w) vi.25:
*:The Lord make his face to shine upon thee.
*(Bible), (w) vii.22:
*:My face [favour] will I turn also from them.
(lb) An interface.
*2003 May 14, Bart Leeten, Kris Meukens,
*:For clarity reasons and to stress that JavaServer Faces is not only about ‘visual’ user interfaces, we propose to use the term ‘face ’, to express what for visual interfaces is typically named a ‘screen’.
The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
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To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
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*: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.
To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland.
(lb) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
(lb) To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:I'll face / This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
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, title= (lb) To have the front in a certain direction.
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(lb) To have as an opponent.
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(lb) To confront impudently; to bully.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I will neither be faced nor braved.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
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To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
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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.
(lb) 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 surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
Physical frame.
# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
# A corpse.
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#* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
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# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
# A bodysuit.
# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
Coherent group.
# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
# Any physical object or material thing.
# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
# An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
#* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
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(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
To give body or shape to something.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
* 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
As a verb face
is .As a noun body is
a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children.face
English
(wikipedia face)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces' were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's ' face ; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.
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Synonyms
* (part of head) countenance, visage, phiz (obsolete), phizog (obsolete) * (facial expression) countenance, expression, facial expression, look, visage * (the front or outer surface) foreside * (public image) image, public image, reputation * (of a polyhedron) facet (different specialised meaning in mathematical use), surface (not in mathematical use) * cakehole, gob, mush, piehole, trap * good guy, hero * See alsoDerived terms
* baby face * blackfaced * facebook * face down * faceless * facelet * face-off * face-saving * face that would stop a clock * face to face, face-to-face * face up * face value * fall on one's face * feed one's face * fill one's face * game face * hatchet-faced * in face of * in one's face * in the face of * just another pretty face * lose face * manface * not just a pretty face * pizza face * pull a face * put a good face on * ratface * rock face * save face * shit-faced * stare someone in the face * suck face * whitefacedVerb
(fac)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* * (have its front closest to) * (deal with) confront, deal withDerived terms
* face down * face facts * face the music * face up to * in-your-face * in your faceSee also
* (Face) * * * *Statistics
*External links
*MathWorld article on geometrical faces*
Faces in programming*
JavaServer Faces* (commonslite)
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----body
English
(wikipedia body)Noun
{{picdic, image= Human body features-nb.svg , detail1= 1= 2= 3= 4= 5= 6= 7= 8= 9= 10-14= 15-19= }}- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body
's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- The boxer took a blow to the body .
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
World's largest extrusive '''bodyof sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)See also
* corporal * corporealVerb
- I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.
References
*Compact Oxford English Dictionary*
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