FACE


Meaning of FACE in English

I

n.

grimace

1) to make, pull ( BE ) a ~ (at)

prestige

2) to save ~

3) to lose ~

front part of the head

4) to press one's ~ (against a window)

5) ( fig .) to show one's ~ (he didn't dare show his ~)

6) to powder one's ~

7) a beautiful, handsome, pretty; familiar; oval; round; ruddy; strange; ugly ~

8) ( misc. ) to come/meet ~ to ~; to bring ~ to ~; to look smb. in the ~; I would never say that to her ~; to laugh in smb.'s ~; ~ down

expression

9) an angry; funny; happy; poker, straight; sad; serious ~ (to keep a straight ~)

makeup

( colloq. )

10) to put one's ~ on

misc.

11) in the ~ of serious difficulties ('facing serious difficulties'); on the ~ of it ('judging by appearances'); to disappear from the ~ of the earth; to fly in the ~ of smt. ('to defy smt. energetically')

II

v.

1) to ~ squarely

2) ( d ; tr. ) to ~ with (to ~ smb. with irrefutable evidence)

3) ( G ) I could not ~ going there alone

4) ( P ; intr. ) to ~ east

The Bbi combinatory dictionary of English, a guide to word combinations.      Комбинаторный словарь английского языка Bbi. Руководство по словосочетаниям.