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Face Saver

Definition: Face Saver

Face Saver

Noun

1. An act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige).

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

Synonym: Face Saver

Synonym: face saving (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Face Saver

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 saver screen smiley

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Face Saver

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

Pig Latin

  

acefay aversay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Face Saver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-r-s-v"

-2 letters: carafes, refaces.

-3 letters: arecas, averse, caesar, carafe, carves, cavers, craves, crease, facers, faeces, farces, fevers, fracas, reaves, reface.

-4 letters: acres, afars, areae, areas, areca, avers, cafes, cares, carse, carve, caver, caves, cease, ceres, crave, eaves, erase, escar, facer, faces, farce, fares, favas, faves, fears, fease, feces, feres, fever, frees, races, raves, reave, reefs, sacra, safer, saree, saver, scare, scarf, scree, serac, serve, sever, varas, veers, verse.

-5 letters: aces, acre, afar, arcs, area, ares, arfs, arse, asea, aver, aves, cafe, care, cars, casa, case, cave, cees, cere, ears, ease, eave, eras, ever, eves, face, fare, fava, fave, fear, fees, fere, frae, free, race, rase, rave, recs, reef, rees, refs, revs, safe, save, scar, sear, seer, sera, sere, serf, vacs, vara, vars, vasa, vase, veer, vees, vera.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Face Saver


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

46 61 63 65      53 61 76 65 72

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

    

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

01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010011 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0063 0065      0053 0061 0076 0065 0072

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

4067697125367887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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