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Definition of Facing

1. Noun. A lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening.

2. Noun. An ornamental coating to a building.

3. Noun. A protective covering that protects the outside of a building.

4. Noun. Providing something with a surface of a different material.

Definition of Facing

1. n. A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

Definition of Facing

1. Adjective. (rail transport of points and crossovers) diverging in the direction of travel. ¹

2. Noun. The most external portion of exterior siding. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of face) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Facing

1. a lining at the edge of a garment [n -S]

Medical Definition of Facing

1. A tooth-coloured material used to hide the buccal or labial surface of a metallic crown to give the outward appearance of a natural tooth. The material used is usually plastic or porcelain. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facing

facilitated facilitated diffusion facilitated transport facilitates facilitating facilitation facilitations facilitative facilitator facilitator neuron

facilitators facilitatory facilities facility facility regulation and control facing pages facing points facingly facings facinorous

facio- faciolingual facioplasty facioplegia facioscapulohumeral atrophy facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy facist

Literary usage of Facing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"... hitherto unpublished facing 182 Water-color drawing of a young raccoon, 1841 . . . facing 182 Alexander Wilson facing 212 William Bartram facing 212 ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"469 ; Kenya peak and Lenana,471 ; Kenya forest, In tlie, 457 Laikipia plateau, Clouds on, 459 Michaelson, Lake, 473 Nyika, The (coloured plate), facing 484 ..."

3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Turn back to wrong side and fold upper portion of facing down one-eighth inch ... Cut bias facing of material like trousers, the length of the opening by 2 ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"707- facing 50. Operation for gastro-enterostomy (Donald Armour), four figs., 61, 62, 63. Anaesthesia in operations on the upper air passages (St. Clair ..."

5. Proceedings by Natural Gas Association of America, Modern Language Association of America (1921)
"This bar and facing arm was used to rebore and reface 23" x 48" power cylinder ... Note facing arm attached to head. This arm was used to face the ends of ..."

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