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Forehead vs Foreheat - What's the difference?

forehead | foreheat |

As a noun forehead

is the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

As a verb foreheat is

to heat beforehand or in advance.

forehead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
  • *1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) , Macmillan
  • *:'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
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  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead , whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

    Synonyms

    * brow

    foreheat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To heat beforehand or in advance.
  • *1908 , American Machinist - Volume 31, Part 1 - Page 320:
    • The most recent development in this line is the combination of a foreheating apparatus employing oxygen and hydrogen, with a cutting jet of pure oxygen playing on the surface previously made red hot by this oxyhydrogen jet.
  • *1920 , The Milk Dealer - Volume 10 - Page 45:
    • The photograph shows the special connections on the first heater section, whereby the milk is foreheated for the clarifier.

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