(intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
(obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
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.
(engineering) 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.
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It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
The Lord make his face to shine upon thee.
My face [favour] will I turn also from them.
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’.
Face the sun.
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.
Turn the chair so it faces the table.
He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland.
I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.
I'll face / This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.
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.
The bunkers faced north and east, toward Germany.
And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.
I will neither be faced nor braved.
a building faced with marble
to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress
One must face one’s fears.
lose face, save face
face of the sea
This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
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.
‘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.’
The face of this company.
He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.
The face of the cliff loomed above them.
to fly in the face of danger;
to speak before the face of God
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.
They turned to boat into the face of the storm.
She has a pretty face.
a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face
Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road.