Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or concerning the face: facial cosmetics; facial hair.
- n. A treatment for the face, usually consisting of a massage and the application of cosmetic creams.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the face: as, facial expression: an epithet specifically applied in anatomy to many structures which compose this part of the head: as, a facial artery, bone, muscle, nerve, vein, etc.
- Pertaining to some part of an animal like or called the face; specifically, in entomology, pertaining to the front of the head, or to the part distinguished as the face in the various orders.
- Common, a short trunk, formed by the union of the anterior facial and anterior division of temporomaxillary to empty into the jugular at the level of the hyoid bone.
- Deep, a vein passing from the pterygoid plexus to empty into the anterior facial below the malar bone. Also called anterior internal maxillary vein.
- Posterior, the temporomaxillary vein.
- Transverse, one of two veins passing over the surface of the masseter muscle to empty into the common temporal vein. See basifacial, craniofacial.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or affecting the face.
- n. a personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
- n. slang A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
- n. vulgar, slang A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the face.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object
- n. care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams
- n. cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles
- adj. of or concerning the face
Examples
“The group likes to pull stunts decrying what it calls facial hair discrimination, such as saving the job of a Ruby Tuesday's employee who was threatened with being fired for violating the company's no facial hair policy.”
The Huffington Post: Millions Of Men Grow Mustaches For 'Movember' Cancer Fundraiser
“She was always getting what she called a facial, from which process she would emerge looking pinker and creamier than ever.”
“These are just examples of what we called facial deformities.”
“Fancies herself to be an up-and-coming performance artist who specializes in facial gesticulations to accompany the sounds of flushing toilets and car alarms.”
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“What he lacks in facial-hair stylishness, though, Mr. Bumgarner made up for Sunday night with one of the most dominant pitching performances by a rookie in World Series history.”
“Listening to MPR talk show the other day and they were interviewing a Psychologist expert in facial expressions and how to tell if a person is being truthful or not and lo and behold he said that 90% of people cannot fool us wih false expressions, and that 10%, made up of psychopaths and politicians, are able to fool us.”
“Listening to MPR talk show the other day and they were interviewing a Psychologist expert in facial expressions and emotions etc.”
“According to Amphibians and Reptiles of Delmarva (White & White, 2002), the 2 species may be distinguished by their numbers of certain facial scales.”
“They're similar in facial and body structure at least.”
“We show that differences in facial shape alone between candidates can predict who wins or loses in an election (Study 1) and that changing context from war time to peace time can affect which face receives the most votes (Study 2).”
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