单词 | face-line |
释义 | > as lemmasface-line face-line n. a line on a face, or the alignment of a face, in various senses; spec. (a) the alignment of the face of a structure, building, etc.; (b) Mining the line of the face of a mine (see sense 22); (c) (chiefly in plural) the lines or wrinkles on a person's face. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction of the face of anything face-line1730 1730 E. Oakley Mag. Archit., Perspective, & Sculpt. i. 24 The flutes are semi-circles whose centers are on the face line of the Pillaster. 1853 W. Johnson Armengaud's Pract. Draughtsman's Bk. Industr. Design 186/1 One [pen] can be set for the face line, and the other for the shadow, or back-line, of a hedge. 1877 E. M. A. Heron Balance of Pain 13 A hard man, Business in every face-line. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 99 Keep the face line of the stall neither fully face on nor end on. 1906 Daily Chron. 13 July 3/3 They are the real Rembrandt. There is a deep furrow in the brow; the face-lines are bitten as by acid. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 16/1 The work of erecting the new intermediate ribs between the old bridge and the new face-line is now in progress on all the spans. 1994 D. Oliver Penniless Politics 43 The peasant-wise face-lines taking her round and round many smiles. 2007 Austral. Mining (Nexis) Oct. 86 Evidence of disturbed geology was present with a 300 mm thrust fault parallel to the face-line. < as lemmas |
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