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Definition: Face Up |
Face UpVerb1. Deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Face UpSynonyms: confront (v), face (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: avoid (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, pal, that's my face up there next to the pepper steak, and don't you forget it. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Learn to face up to this on my own ("I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman"; performing artist: Britney Spears) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | She stuck her ugly old face up at me when she said it and I had my mouth full of tobacco juice. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Korea | Revisions also include increased penalties for convicted child abusers, who would face up to 5 years in prison (compared to the previous 2 years) for child abuse. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Panama | If found guilty, Briceno could face up to 2 years in prison for defamation. (references) |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Fabianus Ulu face up to 15 years in jail if convicted on the lesser charge of homicide. (references) |
Women | Canada | Services available to abused women have increased significantly over the past 2 decades, and there were 508 shelters for abused women across the country in 2000. A total of 24,049 cases of sexual assault were reported in 2000, an increase of 177 cases from 1999. The courts consider such cases seriously and those convicted of sexual assault face up to 10 years in prison. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sweden | Traffickers sentenced for pandering can face up to 6 years in prison, but most sentences are for 2 to 3 years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "face up": face up to. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
close face up | 16 |
down face face up | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "face up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | umìt se s vyrovnat (face up to), postavit se èelem (face up to). (various references) | |
French | en face. (various references) | |
German | Schriftseite nach oben. (various references) | |
Greek | αντιμετωπίζω (breast, come up against, confront, cope, cope with, dare, encounter, envisage, face, face up to, front, tackle, weather). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lapjával fölfelé (face upward, face upwards). (various references) | |
Indonesian | celentang (lie face up), bergelimpangan (be sprawled face up all over). (various references) | |
Italian | fronteggiare (cope, face, face each other). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仰向け , あお向け (facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue, hopeless, no good, useless). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あおむけ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acefay upay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | toalha de rosto (face up to), confrontar (collate, compare, confront, face up to). (various references) | |
Russian | быть готовым к (face up to). (various references) | |
Spanish | reconocer la realidad de (face up to), hacer frente a (brave, breast, confront, cope, dare, face, face up to, meet, weather), estar preparado para (face up to), arrostrar (face, face up to, to brave). (various references) | |
Swedish | finna sig i (face up to, put up with, resign, tolerate, wear), ta på sig (Don, face up to, put on, take, take on, undertake), modigt möta (envisage, face up to), böja sig för (defer to, face up to). (various references) | |
Turkish | katlanmak (abide, accept, bear, Brook, crease, digest, do with, double, endure, face, face up to, go through, grin and bear it, last out, lump, lump it, put up with, sit down under, stand, stand the racket, stick, stick it, stick out, stomach, suffer, sustain, sweat out, take, take it, take one's medicine, tolerate, undergo), karşı koymak (bear against, confront, contest, counter, counteract, counterwork, demur, dispute, face, face up to, fend, fight back, offer resistance, oppugn, refuse, resist, set against, stand, stand out, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to, withstand), göze almak (chance, envisage, face, face up to, risk, take the chance, venture), göz yummak (blink, blink at, condone, connive, excuse, face up to, have, leave unnoticed, let smth. pass unchallenged, overlook, pass by, permit of, suffer, tolerate, wink, wink at), cesaretle karşılamak (face up to), önlemek (arrest, avert, avoid, baffle, bank, circumvent, counterwork, estop, face up to, foil, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, get under control, head off, intercept, jugulate, keep back, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, repress, stay, suppress, thwart, ward, ward off). (various references) | |
Ukranian | зустріти сміливо (affront, face up to), бути готовим до (face up to). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: faceup. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-p-u" | |
-2 letters: cafe, cape, face, pace, puce. | |
-3 letters: ace, ape, cap, cep, cue, cup, eau, ecu, feu, pac, pea, pec. | |
-4 letters: ae, ef, fa, pa, pe, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-p-u" | |
+2 letters: peaceful. | |
+3 letters: creampuff, teacupful. | |
+4 letters: creampuffs, peacefully, superflack, teacupfuls, teacupsful. | |
+5 letters: peacefuller, prefectural, reproachful, superficial, superflacks. | |
| 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 55 70 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c e   U p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0065 0055 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067697125582 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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