Facing vs Toward - What's the difference?
facing | toward |
(rail transport, of points and crossovers) diverging in the direction of travel.
The most external portion of exterior siding.
(sewing) Fabric applied to a garment edge on the underside.
(metalworking) A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
(military, in the plural) The collar and cuffs of a military coat, commonly of a different colour from the rest of the coat.
(military, mostly, plural) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about.
In the direction of.
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*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 1
*:He set his face toward the wilderness.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
In relation to (someone or something).
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*(Bible), (w)
*:His eye shall be evil toward his brother.
For the purpose of attaining (an aim).
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Located close to; near (a time or place).
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*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:I am toward nine years older since I left you.
(obsolete) Future; to come.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
(dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
* Shakespeare
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
(obsolete, or, archaic) Promising, likely; froward.
As adjectives the difference between facing and toward
is that facing is diverging in the direction of travel while toward is future; to come.As a noun facing
is the most external portion of exterior siding.As a verb facing
is present participle of lang=en.As a preposition toward is
in the direction of.facing
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Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* trailingDerived terms
* facing pointsNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)toward
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Preposition
(en-prep) (mainly in American English)Synonyms
* towardsUsage notes
* Although some have tried to discern a semantic distinction between the words (term) and (towards), the difference is merely dialectal. (term) is more common in American English and (towards) is the predominant form in British English.Adjective
(-)- ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood [...].
- Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward ?
- On the morrow […] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu , and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward , comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.
- Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. ? Shakespeare.