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Face can be a verb or a noun.
face used as a verb:
- to position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
"Face the sun." - to have its front closest to (something else).
"Turn the chair so it faces the table." - To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
"I'm going to have to face this sooner or later." - To have the front in a certain direction.
"The bunkers faced north and east, toward Germany." - To be the striking batsman.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
face used as a noun:
- The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
"She has a pretty face." - One's facial expression.
"Why the sad face?" - The public image; outward appearance.
"The face of this company." - The frontal aspect of something.
"The face of the cliff loomed above them." - The directed force of something.
"They turned to boat into the face of the storm." - Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron.
- Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
"Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road." - The numbered dial of a clock or watch.
- The mouth.
"Shut your face!" - Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
"I'll be out in a sec, just let me put on my face." - The good guy; a wrestler embodying heroic or virtuous traits.
"The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback." - The front surface of a bat.
- the side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck)
- A typeface.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is face?
- Verb usage: Face the sun.
- Verb usage: Turn the chair so it faces the table.
- Verb usage: I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.
- Verb usage: The bunkers faced north and east, toward Germany.
- Noun usage: She has a pretty face.
- Noun usage: Why the sad face?
- Noun usage: The face of this company.
- Noun usage: He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.
- Noun usage: The face of the cliff loomed above them.
- Noun usage: They turned to boat into the face of the storm.
- Noun usage: Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road.
- Noun usage: They climbed the north face of the mountain.
- Noun usage: She wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth.
- Noun usage: Shut your face!
- Noun usage: He's always stuffing his face with chips.
- Noun usage: I'll be out in a sec, just let me put on my face.
- Noun usage: The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of face are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of face, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
