adjective

• 1in combination Having a face or expression of a specified kind.

  ‘a pimply-faced teenager’

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  • ‘a burly, square-faced doorman’
  • ‘sad-faced children’
  • ‘I was a fresh-faced college kid who had grown up in a really strict working class immigrant household in Massachusetts.’
  • ‘Sitting behind the desk was a grim-faced grey-haired woman.’
  • ‘A sad-faced colleague told me that a portion of the building had just collapsed.’
  • ‘"I don't know what you're talking about," Begala said, blank-faced.’
  • ‘Shanza, white-faced and rigid, was standing next to a small round table.’
• 2in combination Having a surface or front of a specified kind.

  ‘a heavy, square-faced hammer’

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  • ‘a stone-faced building’
  • ‘In this section you will learn how to install wood-faced panels on different surfaces.’
  • ‘A marble-faced monument inside the fort commemorates the completion of the conquest.’
  • ‘The granite-faced north building rises 77 metres above ground level.’
  • ‘Where can I buy oak-faced MDF or plywood?’

  1. 2.1Geometry (of a solid) having a specified number of surfaces.
     ‘a twelve-faced solid’
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     • ‘The atoms are arranged in a four-faced pyramidal structure.’
• 3(of a piece of stone or other material) having a smoothed or polished surface.

  ‘walls and pillars had faced stone on the outer surfaces’

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  • ‘We used this split faced marble on the lower face of our bar area.’
  • ‘The edges of split faced walling are hand pitched to create a convex face.’
• 4(of a playing card) turned face up.

  ‘he gets the faced card as his first card’

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  • ‘When a faced card is discovered during the deal, the cards must be reshuffled and dealt again.’