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Face Card

Definition: Face Card

Face Card

Noun

1. One of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Face Card

Synonyms: court card (n), picture card (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Face Card

English words defined with "face card": casino, cassinoeight-spotfive-spot, four-card monte, four-spothole cardmontenine-spotsix-spot, stud, stud pokerten-spot, three-card monte. (references)
Specialty definitions using "face card": card faceeighty-column mindFace-card, face-up feed. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Face Card

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Face Card

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

face card

16

smiley face card

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Face Card

Language Translations for "face card"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

letër me figurë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фигура (effigy, figure, form, man, person, physique, piece, tracery). (various references)

   

Czech

  

král, dáma v kartách. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

figurás lap. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acefay ardcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encasement, enforce, fleecy, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overstate, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top, wrap). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

valet (body servant, boots, footboy, footman, Jack, knave, valet), rigã (king), damã (broad, Dame, demimondaine, demi-rep, lady, queen, tart, whore). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фигура (figure, shape). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

karte sa likovima. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

figura (court card, figure, form, frame, shape). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

målare (court card, decorator, painter, paintress, paper hanger), klättkort (court card, picture card). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไพ่ชนิà¸"หนึ่ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

suratlı oyun kâğıdı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Face Card

Misspellings

"Face Card" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fack card. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Face Card

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-f-r"

-2 letters: afeard, arcade, carafe, facade, farced.

-3 letters: acred, arced, areca, cadre, caeca, cared, cedar, decaf, faced, facer, fader, farad, farce, fared, raced.

-4 letters: aced, acre, afar, area, caca, cade, cafe, card, care, ceca, dace, dare, deaf, dear, face, fade, fard, fare, fear, frae, race, read.

-5 letters: ace, arc, are, arf, cad, car, ear, era, fad, far, fed, fer, rad, rec, red, ref.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-f-r"
 

+4 letters: saccharified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Face Card


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 63 65      43 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0063 0065      0043 0061 0072 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40676971237678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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