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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
account, asking price, bearish prices, bid price, book value, bullish prices, call price, closing price, conversion factor, decline, face, fixed price, flash price, flurry, flutter, high, issue par, issue price, low, market price, market value, net worth, nominal value, offering price, opening price, par, par value, parity, pennyworth, price, put price, quotation, quoted price, rally, rate, settling price, stated value, swings, value, value received, worth
Dictionary Results for face value:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
face value
    n 1: the value of a security that is set by the company issuing
         it; unrelated to market value [syn: par value, face
         value, nominal value]
    2: the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Face \Face\ (f[=a]s), n. [F., from L. facies form, shape, face,
   perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig.
   meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and
   akin to E. fancy. Cf. Facetious.]
   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.
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            A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground.
                                                  --Gen. ii. 6.
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            Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. --Byron.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   5. Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect,
      whether natural, assumed, or acquired.
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            To set a face upon their own malignant design.
                                                  --Milton.
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            This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
                                                  --Addison.
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            We wear a face of joy, because
            We have been glad of yore.            --Wordsworth.
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   6. That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes,
      cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.
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            In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
                                                  --Gen. iii.
                                                  19.
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   7. Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air;
      appearance.
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            We set the best faceon it we could.   --Dryden.
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   8. (Astrol.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
      --Chaucer.
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   9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or
      confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness;
      effrontery.
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            This is the man that has the face to charge others
            with false citations.                 --Tillotson.
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   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.
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   11. Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor
       or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
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             The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. --Num.
                                                  vi. 25.
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             My face [favor] will I turn also from them. --Ezek.
                                                  vii. 22.
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   12. (Mining) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or
       excavation, at which work is progressing or was last
       done.
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   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. --McElrath.
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   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.
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   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. --Knight.

   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.
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   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. --Wilhelm.

   Face of a square (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion
      when formed in a square.

   Face of a watch, clock, compass, 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 --Cor. xiii. 12.
       (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or
           toward one another; vis [`a] 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. --Shak.
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