Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

face

/ˈfeɪ̯s/ noun, verb, adverb, phrase

Forms faces facing faced

  1. noun (anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area. “That girl has a pretty face.”
  2. noun One's facial expression. “Why the sad face?”
  3. noun (in expressions such as make a face) A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. “Children! Stop making faces at each other!”
  4. noun (informal) The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
  5. noun (slang) The mouth. “Shut your face!”
  6. noun (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application. “I'll be out in a sec. Just let me put on my face.”
  7. noun Public image; outward appearance. “Our chairman is the face of this company.”
  8. noun Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. “lose face”
  9. verb (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). “Face the sun.”
  10. verb (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). “Turn the chair so it faces the table.”
  11. verb (transitive) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
  12. verb (transitive, retail) To improve the display of stock by ensuring items aren't upside down or back to front and are pulled forwards. “I've put out the stock and broken down the boxes, it's just facing left to do.”
  13. verb (transitive) To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect. “We are facing an uncertain future.”
  14. verb (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable. “I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.”
  15. verb (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction. “The seats in the carriage faced backwards.”
  16. verb (transitive) To have as an opponent. “Real Madrid face Juventus in the quarter-finals.”
  17. adverb (slang, of hallucinating from drug use) Intensely. “He's tripping face.”
  18. phrase (music, mnemonic) A mnemonic phrase to help remember the order of the four spaces of a musical treble clef in order from the bottom to the top.

Synonyms

dial mug mush phiz phizog punim visage pan boat complexion countenance chevy chase ecaf eek George Best favor kisser look map physiognomy human face expression aspect facial expression side grimace font fount typeface case

Antonyms

heel

Etymology

From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). Doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.
In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 (miànzi) or 臉／脸 (liǎn), both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.
  2. noun That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
  3. verb To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battale.
  4. verb To Confront impudently; to bully.

Etymology [F., from L. facies form, shape, face, perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig. meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and akin to E. fancy. Cf. Facetious.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “face”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “face” (best matches first).

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