Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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adjective
1in combination Having a face or expression of a specified kind.
‘a pimply-faced teenager’- ‘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’- ‘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?’
- 2.1Geometry (of a solid) having a specified number of surfaces.‘a twelve-faced solid’
- ‘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’- ‘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’- ‘When a faced card is discovered during the deal, the cards must be reshuffled and dealt again.’
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