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Definition: Facia |
FaciaNoun1. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "facia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: FaciaSynonym: fascia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Front | Noun: front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk, disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece; anteriority; obverse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Facia |
| Non-English Usage: "Facia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkish (disaster, tragedy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kiz Kulesinde bir facia (1923) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Facia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Facia" is used about 18 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% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "facia": facia board ♦ facia panel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "facia": facia-lift. | |
| 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 |
facia | 22 |
soffit and facia | 21 |
plantar facia | 17 |
facia prima | 13 |
facia board | 10 |
planter facia | 7 |
boards facia | 6 |
aluminum facia | 4 |
facia vinyl | 3 |
facia install soffit | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "facia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tabelë (array, board, chalkboard, chart, fascia, hoarding, sign, signboard, table), panel i aparaturave (fascia). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фирма (business, fascia, house, shebang, shingle, sign), табела (fascia, plate, sign, signboard). (various references) | |
Danish | daekplade (coping, deck). (various references) | |
Dutch | zoomplank, kantplank, afdekplaat (cover, mantel, panel, shut down lid). (various references) | |
Finnish | oven karmin ylälevy. (various references) | |
French | tôle de raccordement, tôle d'alignement, bordure de pignon. (various references) | |
German | Wandfeld ueber der Tuer, Stirnbrett (eaves fascia, fascia, fascia board). (various references) | |
Greek | τοιχοποιία επάνω από την πόρτα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cégtábla (brass, sign, sign-board). (various references) | |
Italian | riparo continuo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aciafay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chapa de protecçao. (various references) | |
Russian | полоска (band, fascia, strap, streak, stria). (various references) | |
Spanish | chapa de protección (guard plate, plate guard, plate type guard, protecting screen, protective shield, screen, shield). (various references) | |
Swedish | instrumentbräda (dashboard, dash-board, fascia, panel), dörröverstycke, butiksskylt (fascia). (various references) | |
Turkish | tabela (name plate, plaque, plaquette, shingle, sign, signboard), kontrol paneli (control board, dashboard, desk, facia board, facia panel, panel, panel board), ad tabelası. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "facia": facial, facially, facials, facias. (additional references) | |
Words containing "facia": bifacial, bifacially, craniofacial, interfacial, maxillofacial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "facia" (pronounced 'Fa"ci*a'): Breccia, Dioecia, Dystocia, Estancia, Fascia, Gastromalacia, Indicia, Monoecia, Myrcia, Osteomalacia, Pistacia, Residencia, Scolecida, Semuncia, Trioecia, Uncia, Valencia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-i" | |
-3 letters: aa, ai, fa, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-i" | |
+1 letter: facial, facias, fascia. | |
+2 letters: facials, fanatic, faradic, fasciae, fascial, fascias, faucial. | |
+3 letters: affiance, aircraft, artifact, bifacial, califate, facetiae, facially, fanatics, faradaic, farcical, fasciate, focaccia. | |
+4 letters: affianced, affiances, affricate, artifacts, cafeteria, cafetoria, califates, catfacing, fabricant, fabricate, factional, factorial, fallacies, fanatical, fantastic, fasciated, fascinate, fatidical, financial, focaccias, picofarad. | |
+5 letters: affiancing, affirmance, affricates, aficionada, aficionado, artificial, bifacially, cafeterias, catfacings, fabricants, fabricated, fabricates, fabricator, facilitate, factorials, factualism, factualist, factuality, fallacious, fanaticism, fanaticize, fantastico, fantastics, farcically, fasciation, fascicular, fascinated, fascinates, fascinator, fatalistic, fractional, fricandeau, handicraft, magnifical, magnificat, microfarad, microfauna, pacifiable, paraffinic, picofarads, saccharify, ultramafic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0069 0061 |
| 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)4067697567 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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