break vs face

break

verb
  • To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver. 

  • To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed. 

  • To become deeper at puberty. 

  • To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion. 

  • To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. 

  • To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break. 

  • To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait. 

  • To demote; to reduce the military rank of. 

  • To counter-attack. 

  • To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view. 

  • To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like. 

  • To become audible suddenly. 

  • To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate. 

  • To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief. 

  • To turn an animal into a beast of burden. 

  • Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly. 

  • To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible. 

  • To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar. 

  • To ruin financially. 

  • To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc. 

  • To change a steady state abruptly. 

  • To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record. 

  • To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. 

  • To end the run of (a play). 

  • To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage. 

  • To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression. 

  • To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce. 

  • To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for. 

  • To begin or end. 

  • To suddenly become. 

  • To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement. 

  • To demulsify. 

  • To end (a connection); to disconnect. 

  • To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of. 

  • To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. 

  • To arrive. 

  • To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. 

  • To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath. 

  • To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. 

  • To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain. 

  • To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether. 

  • To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack. 

  • To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. 

  • To end. 

  • To remove one of the two men on (a point). 

  • To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated. 

  • To violate; to fail to adhere to. 

  • To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break. 

  • To B-boy; to breakdance. 

noun
  • The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio. 

  • A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention. 

  • An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game. 

  • A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water). 

  • A sharp bit or snaffle. 

  • The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table. 

  • An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US). 

  • A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music. 

  • A temporary split with a romantic partner. 

  • The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register. 

  • A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather. 

  • A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution. 

  • A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday. 

  • A rest or pause, usually from work. 

  • The counter-attack. 

  • A short holiday. 

  • An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. 

  • A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. 

  • A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange. 

  • The beginning (of the morning). 

  • A game won by the receiving player(s). 

  • An act of escaping. 

  • The first shot in a game of billiards. 

  • The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture. 

  • A time for students to talk or play between lessons. 

  • The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text. 

  • The start of a horse race. 

  • A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue. 

face

verb
  • To have as an opponent. 

  • To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface. 

  • To have the front in a certain direction. 

  • To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive. 

  • To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect. 

  • To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable. 

  • To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. 

  • To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). 

  • To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). 

  • To be the batsman on strike. 

  • To line near the edge, especially with a different material. 

  • To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon. 

  • To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc. 

noun
  • A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself. 

  • The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area. 

  • A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face. 

  • The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end. 

  • The mouth. 

  • The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck). 

  • One's facial expression. 

  • A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. 

  • A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene. 

  • The front surface of a bat. 

  • The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value. 

  • Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery. 

  • Any surface, especially a front or outer one. 

  • The frontal aspect of something. 

  • The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face. 

  • The part of a golf club that hits the ball. 

  • Public image; outward appearance. 

  • Presence; sight; front. 

  • An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something. 

  • Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension. 

  • The directed force of something. 

  • Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application. 

  • The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears. 

  • A typeface. 

  • A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger. 

  • Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face). 

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