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# face

«face» in Mova's school dictionary: **the front of your head with eyes, nose and mouth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (face, faces); verb (face, faces, faced, facing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your face is the front of your head with eyes, nose and mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#m1)

2) A face is a flat side of a solid shape. A cube has 6 faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#m2)

3) A clock face is the front part with the numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#m3)

4) To face is to look toward or turn toward something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#m4)

5) To face a problem is to deal with it bravely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#m5)

6) To make a face is to twist your face to show a feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

maths: flat sides of solids counted (a cube has 6, a square pyramid 5); a clock face for telling time; or a person's face; science: senses on the face; everyday life: wash your face, sun cream on your face; stories: a smiling face, face your fears; phrases: «face to face», «face up», «about face»

### examples

- A cube has 6 faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x1)
- How many faces does a pyramid have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x2)
- The clock face shows 3 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x3)
- She painted each face of the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x4)
- Wash your face before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x5)
- Face the front, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x6)
- He made a funny face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x7)
- She faced her fear and jumped in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x8)
- His face was long and earnest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/#x9)

### note

Fixed counts for solids (cube 6). Trap: painting faces of a cube means 6 faces, not 4. A face is flat; an edge is where two faces meet.

### In the corpora

- [To help someone with poor hearing, face them and speak clearly, without shouting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/10/)
- [Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/2/)
- [Good grown-ups face these with honesty and love.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/4/)
- [Comments about how someone's face or body looks turn into accusations; «you look well» is enough.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/23/)
- [A quote stuck on a picture of a famous face is very easy to fake; look for where the person really said it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «face» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/face/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.