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Face Lifting

Definitions: Face Lifting

Face Lifting

Noun

1. A renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building).

2. Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised.

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

Synonyms: Face Lifting

Synonyms: face lift (n), rhytidectomy (n), rhytidoplasty (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Face Lifting

Specialty definitions using "face lifting": tunnel system. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Face Lifting

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: Psychological Aspects of Aesthetic Surgery: Face Lifting: Ancillary Procedures to Face Lifting (reference)

  • Face Lifting by Exercise (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Face Lifting

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

French

  

modelage. (various references)

   

German

  

Face lifting, Gesichtsstraffung. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acefay iftinglay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

chirurgie plasticã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cirugía estética facial. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yenileme (instauration, novation, reconditioning, regeneration, renewal, renovation, restoration), yüz gerdirme, çehresini değiştirme. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Face Lifting

Misspellings

"Face Lifting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facelifting. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Face Lifting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: facelifting.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-f-g-i-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: afflicting.

-2 letters: affecting, genitalic.

-3 letters: antilife, cleating, clefting, effacing, effigial, facelift, faceting, fileting.

-4 letters: afflict, angelic, anglice, atingle, caffein, caitiff, catling, ceiling, ciliate, elating, failing, fatling, felting, fictile, filiate, finagle, finical, fliting, galenic, gelatin, genital, inflate, inflect, inflict, intagli, leafing, lifting, lignite, tailing, talcing, tiffing.

-5 letters: acetin, acting, affect, affine, aiglet, ailing, atelic, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, citing, client, eating, elicit, enatic, entail, facile, facing, fating, fecial, fetial, feting, fiance, fifing, filing, finale, finial, finite, flange, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, glance, ignite, incage, incite, infect, ingate, inlace, italic, lacing, lancet, lectin, lentic, ligate, linage, nilgai, tangle, tenail, tieing, tiffin, tiling, tincal, tineal, tingle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Face Lifting


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

46 61 63 65      4C 69 66 74 69 6E 67

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

    

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

01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0063 0065      004C 0069 0066 0074 0069 006E 0067

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

40676971246757286758073

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INDEX

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


  

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