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Face value   /feɪs vˈælju/   Listen
noun
Face  n.  
1.
The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. "A mist... watered the whole face of the ground." "Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face."
2.
That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
3.
(Mach.)
(a)
The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.
(b)
That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.
(c)
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
4.
(Print.)
(a)
The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.
(b)
The style or cut of a type or font of type.
5.
Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired. "To set a face upon their own malignant design." "This would produce a new face of things in Europe." "We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore."
6.
That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread."
7.
Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. "We set the best faceon it we could."
8.
(Astrol.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
9.
Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. "This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations."
10.
Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.
11.
Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. "The Lord make his face to shine upon thee." "My face (favor) will I turn also from them."
12.
(Mining) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.
13.
(Com.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount; most commonly called face value. Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer.
Face ague (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; called also tic douloureux.
Face card, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack.
Face cloth, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
Face guard, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.
Face hammer, a hammer having a flat face.
Face joint (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure.
Face mite (Zool.), a small, elongated mite (Demdex folliculorum), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face.
Face mold, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, etc., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, etc.
Face plate.
(a)
(Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached.
(b)
A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock.
(c)
A true plane for testing a dressed surface.
Face wheel. (Mach.)
(a)
A crown wheel.
(b)
A wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap.
face value the value written on a financial instrument; same as face 13. Also used metaphorically, to mean apparent value; as, to take his statemnet at its face value.
Cylinder face (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves.
Face of an anvil, its flat upper surface.
Face of a bastion (Fort.), the part between the salient and the shoulder angle.
Face of coal (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification.
Face of a gun, the surface of metal at the muzzle.
Face of a place (Fort.), the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions.
Face of a square (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a square.
Face of a watch, Face of a clock, Face of a compass, Face of a card, etc. the dial or graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass, etc.
Face to face.
(a)
In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face.
(b)
Without the interposition of any body or substance. "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face." 1
(c)
With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis à vis; opposed to back to back.
To fly in the face of, to defy; to brave; to withstand.
To make a face, to distort the countenance; to make a grimace; often expressing dislike, annoyance, or disagreement.





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"Face value" Quotes from Famous Books



... social group, and a mute hostility toward another. Labor is its Esau, Capital its Jacob. Let strife arise between workingmen and their employers, and you will see the new social conscience aligning itself with the former, accepting at face value all the claims of labor, reiterating all labor's formulae. The suggestion that judgment should be suspended until the facts at issue are established is repudiated as the prompting of a secret sin. For, to paraphrase ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various
... speculating on possibilities! He had the information now. The one thing to do was to act upon it. So it was old Grenville's safe! Old Grenville, the lawyer; honest old Grenville, the East Side called him, the one man, perhaps, whose word was accepted at its face value, and who was both liked and trusted everywhere in the Bad Lands—because he was honest! Jimmie Dale's lips tightened as he ran. It was more than ordinarily dirty work, then, on the Rat's part. Grenville was an old man, close to seventy, at a guess; and if any one ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... without a female attendant, and said that he had a friend—a young woman lately orphaned—who needed work and would be glad to have the position. I was sufficiently unsophisticated in Filipino ways to take this statement at its face value. As the orphan was willing to labor for a consideration of one dollar gold per month and room, the experiment could not ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... strong sentiment and an influential interest in its favor. To this end he committed the nation to a policy of scrupulous financial honesty, which has helped to make it ever since the mainstay of sound American finance. He secured the consent of Congress to the recognition at their face value of the debts incurred during the war both by the Confederacy and by the individual states. He created in the National Bank an efficient fiscal agent for the Treasury Department and a means whereby it could give stability to the banking system of the country. Finally ...
— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly
... again. When he mentioned the Squaw Creek raid, he observed that his two friends looked quickly at each other and then away. He saw, however, that Dick took his pledge in regard to the raiders at face value, without the least question of doubt. He made only ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine


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