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Definition: Facer |
FacerNoun1. (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "facer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Shapes faces of golf club woods to achieve specified contours, using one of following methods: (1) Clamps head of golf club wood in vise and selects file of tooth size, according to amount of material to be removed. Files contours on face. (2) Moves wood head against belt sander to shape face to specified contours. Places serrated cutters and spacers on arbor of motor in specified pattern to set up scoring apparatus. Starts motor and presses face of club into cutters to score face. Measures loft of club with protractor and visually compares faced club with prototype to verify contours. (references) |
| Operates lathe to polish faces of jewel bearings: Affixes boxwood lap (polishing disk) impregnated with diamond dust to faceplate of lathe. Starts lathe and moves bearing against revolving lap, using pointed stick to facilitate handling jewel bearing. Inspects polished bearings to ensure conformance with standard, using magnifying glass. (references) | |
| Operates bench grinding machine: Holds stainless steel, silver, and silver-plated flatware against emery coated belt or wheel, shaped to match contour of workpiece, which removes burrs, flash, or pressmarks and rounds edges. May remove burrs, using hand file. May change abrasive belts, using handtools. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | FACER. A bumper, a glass filled so full as to leave no room for the lip. Also a violent blow on the face. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Facer |
| Specialty definitions using "facer": facer operator ♦ GOLF-CLUB FACER ♦ head facer ♦ JEWEL-BEARING FACER ♦ PLANER OPERATOR, planing machine operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Facer" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Asturian (to do). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Facer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Facer" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "facer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Facer | Last name | 1,000 | 16,170 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "facer": mellows-facer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
facer | 9 |
facer theme | 4 |
facer skin | 3 |
facer palm | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "facer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vështirësi i papritur, goditje në fytyrë. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уред за полиране, силен удар по лицето, облицовъчник, нещо което няма отговор, непреодолима трудност. (various references) | |
Czech | rána do oblièeje. (various references) | |
Danish | oplukkerbord med støvsugning (facer canceller table). (various references) | |
Dutch | vlakslijpmachine (facer-trimmer). (various references) | |
Finnish | tasohiomakone (facer-trimmer). (various references) | |
French | fraise lamer (spot facer), meuleuse (facer-trimmer), machine redresser et oblitérer (facer-canceller), instrument surfacer les racines (root facer). (various references) | |
German | harte nuss (poser, teaser, tough nut). (various references) | |
Greek | λειαντής (bloodstone, bloodstone burnisher blood, burnisher, facer-trimmer, polisher), ελεκάνος (facer-trimmer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felületsimító. (various references) | |
Italian | schiaffo (buffet, cuff, slap, smack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acerfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rectificadora (facer-trimmer), amoladora (facer-trimmer), afiadora (facer-trimmer). (various references) | |
Romanian | obstacol neprevãzut, loviturã în faţã. (various references) | |
Russian | удар в лицо. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udarac u lice. (various references) | |
Spanish | penetrador (spot facer), amoladora (facer-trimmer, grinder), afiladora plana (facer-trimmer). (various references) | |
Swedish | svårighet (crux, difficulty, discouragement, hardship, knot, rub, trouble), problem (hassle, issue, problem, problems, question, snarl, stickler, trouble). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüze ani darbe, yüzü düzeltmeye yarayan alet, yüz tornacısı, darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), beklenmedik engel. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cú đấm v o mặt khó khăn đột xuất. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "facer": facers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "facer": defacer, effacer, prefacer, resurfacer, surfacer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "facer": defacers, effacers, prefacers, resurfacers, surfacers. (additional references) | |
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"Facer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afcor, faca, faceo, facere, facex, facey, facour, facteur, faecer, faer, fager, Fakhr, Fasher, faver, faveur, faxer, Fcca, ficer, ficher, Foccart, focker, foker, fucer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "facer" (pronounced fā"ser) |
| 3 | -ā" s er | bracer, chaser, eraser, lacer, pacer, racer, spacer, tracer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: farce. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-r" | |
-1 letter: acre, cafe, care, face, fare, fear, frae, race. | |
-2 letters: ace, arc, are, arf, car, ear, era, far, fer, rec, ref. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-r" | |
+1 letter: carafe, chafer, facers, farced, farcer, farces, farcie, fiacre, reface. | |
+2 letters: carafes, careful, carfare, chafers, chaffer, chamfer, chaufer, crafted, defacer, effacer, facture, fancier, farcers, farceur, farcies, fiacres, fracted, furcate, furnace, preface, refaced, refaces, refract, scarfed, surface. | |
+3 letters: affecter, alfresco, artefact, artifice, backfire, campfire, carefree, carfares, chaffers, chaffier, chamfers, chaufers, chauffer, conferva, craftier, defacers, ecofreak, effacers, factored, factures, falconer, fanciers, farceurs, farouche, federacy, feracity, fireback, fireclay, flackery, footrace, forecast, foreface, fracases, fracture, furcated, furcates, furcraea, furculae, furnaced, furnaces, graceful, pacifier, perfecta, praefect, prefaced, prefacer, prefaces, refacing, refracts, repacify, sclaffer, seacraft, surfaced, surfacer, surfaces, trifecta. | |
+4 letters: acidifier, affecters, affricate, aftercare, afterclap, afterdeck, archfiend, artefacts, artificer, artifices, backfired, backfires, barefaced, bifurcate, briefcase, cafeteria, cafetoria, campfires, carefully, carnified, carnifies, carrefour, ceasefire, chaffered, chafferer, chamfered, chauffers, chauffeur, clarified, clarifier, clarifies, cofeature, cofferdam, conferral, confervae, confervas, craftiest, craftsmen, creampuff, ecofreaks, fabricate, factorage, factories, factorize, falconers, financier, firebacks, fireclays, firemanic, fireplace, flagrance, footraces, forcemeat, forecasts, forefaces, forereach, fornicate, fortalice, fractured, fractures, fragrance, franchise, freelance, fricassee, fricative, friedcake, fruitcake, furcraeas, gerfalcon, infarcted, infracted, interface, laticifer, pacifiers, parfleche, perfectas, praefects, preachify, prefacers, prefacing, rechauffe, refinance, refracted, refractor, resurface, sacrifice, scarified, scarifier, scarifies, sclaffers, seacrafts, surfacers, tackifier, transfect, trifectas. | |
+5 letters: acidifiers, affirmance, affricates, aftercares, afterclaps, afterdecks, afterpiece, aftershock, archerfish, archfiends, artificers, beachfront, benefactor, bifurcated, bifurcates, briefcases, cafeterias, cafetorium, calciferol, carefuller, carrefours, ceasefires, chafferers, chaffering, chamfering, chauffeurs, clarifiers, classifier, clofibrate, cloverleaf, cockchafer, cofavorite, cofeatured, cofeatures, cofferdams, confederal, conferrals, cornflakes, cotransfer, craftiness, crawfished, crawfishes, crayfishes, creampuffs, defalcator, diffracted, fabricated, fabricates, factorable, factorages, factorized, factorizes, falconries, farfetched, federacies, feracities, financiers, fireplaced, fireplaces, flackeries, flagrances, flycatcher, forcemeats, forecaddie, forecasted, forecaster, forecastle, fornicated, fornicates, fortalices, fractioned, fragrances, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, fratricide, freelanced, freelancer, freelances, fricandeau, fricandoes, fricasseed, fricassees, fricatives, friedcakes, fruitcakes, gerfalcons, gracefully, hovercraft, interfaced, interfaces, laticifers, luciferase, malefactor, mycoflorae, oceanfront, overfacile, parfleches, prefascist, prefinance, rechauffes, reclassify, refinanced, refinances, refractile, refracting, refraction, refractive, refractors, refractory, repacified, repacifies, resurfaced, resurfacer, resurfaces, sacrificed, sacrificer, sacrifices, sanctifier, scarifiers, spacecraft, stagecraft, statecraft, subsurface, sufferance, superflack, tackifiers, tradecraft, trafficked, trafficker, transfects, trifurcate, ultrafiche, ungraceful, vociferant, vociferate, watercraft. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.-. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067697184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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