Face vs Fringe - 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.
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*: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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(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.
A decorative border.
A marginal or peripheral part.
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Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
The periphery of a town or city.
That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.
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(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
Non-mainstream theatre.
(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
Outside the mainstream.
To decorate with fringe.
To serve as a fringe.
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As verbs the difference between face and fringe
is that face is while fringe is to decorate with fringe.As a noun fringe is
a decorative border.As an adjective fringe is
outside the mainstream.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
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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.}}
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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 ----fringe
English
Noun
(en noun)- the fringe of a picture
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
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- He lives in the fringe of London.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .
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- Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
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- Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.
- “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
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- Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
- interference fringe
- The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe
Synonyms
* (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *Derived terms
* fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringeAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* nonmainstreamVerb
(fring)- Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.