upface

English

Noun

upface (plural upfaces)

1. The face that is oriented upwards.
   • 1949, United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration, Agricultural Conservation Program: Handbook, page 104:

     Channel terraces should be constructed by moving most of the dirt from the upface of the terrace.

   • 1974, Steven Jerome Bryant, College algebra and trigonometry, page 388:

     Naturally, we take as the set of possible outcomes S = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), where the possible outcomes are the possible numbers on the upface.

   • 2012, Hung T. Nguyen, Gerald S. Rogers, Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, page 104:

     When we assume only that the die is not fair, without assigning probability values to each of the upfaces, then the distribution is not determined exactly and the hypothesis is composite.

2. (dogs) A face that has a protruding chin and/or recessed nose.
   • 1926, The Dog Fancier - Volume 35, page 27:

     Oddy has the squarest muzzle and best filled-in foreface that we have ever seen on a Bulldog, while his "upface" expression is marvelous.

   • 1952, Milo Grange Denlinger, The complete Saint Bernard, page 159:

     The downface is much the more serious fault, and a very slight upface or dishface can be tolerated without penalty.

   • 1971, American Kennel Gazette, Pure-bred Dogs:

     In solids we had two most excellent Champions of the King Charles Variety and they were of superb type, with excellent domed heads, good muzzles and the very typical upface of a cushioned and recessed nose.

Verb

upface (third-person singular simple present upfaces, present participle upfacing, simple past and past participle upfaced)

1. To turn face-up.
   • 1923, Leon Stern, Elisabeth Gertrude Stern, A Friend at Court, page 275:

     Harry Borden upfaced his hidden card.

   • 1934, Berton Braley, Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel, page 142:

     But chiefly I remember the incident for that moment when M— stared down, stunned, at the incriminating cards upfaced before him by Stanton, while Webster, Ray Rohn and I waited in throbbing silence for his eyes to lift to our faces.

   • 1989, The Illustrated Weekly of India - Volume 110, Issues 14-26, page 68:

     If the touched card is not the right one, keep it back in the pack and upface the other. If the touched card is the real thing, upface it immediately.

Adjective

upface (comparative more upface, superlative most upface)

1. On the upward-oriented face.
   • 1995, Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities:

     The RPM must be capable of producing surface finishes of 64 RMS or better on all surfaces of the finished parts and 10 RMS or better on all upface surfaces without post process finishing.

Adverb

upface (comparative more upface, superlative most upface)

1. With the face pointing upwards.
   • 1999, Lokesh Chandra, Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, page 1165:

     He is like Ratnasambhava: yellow, r.h. holds a jewel marked with a vajra with the middle finger as he enacts the varada mudrā, l.h. likes upface in the lap.

2. Upwards along the face
   • 1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, Part 3, page 50:

     As he edged into old age he let his sideburns grow into chops and the chops curved upface to form a moustache, about as distinctive a set of hirsute decorations to be seen in all Middle Europe.

   • 1980, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India - Volume 25, page 61:

     This development is opposite of 'lateral flattening' seen in Heterohelix glabrans (Cushman) in which chambers flatten rapidly and aperture is reduced to a narrow slit extending upface.

   • 1987, Fred W. Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guide: Columbia River to Stevens Pass, page 76:

     Start in a broken area of the wall and continue upface in a series of steps and chimneys.

3. Farther up the face
   • 1936, American Concrete Institute, Proceedings - Volume 32, page 231:

     Corresponds to condition of concrete, (except for a thin portion upface), in dam during early stages of flow as long as water is saturated with lime.

   • 1986, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact - Volume 106, page 14:

     Your work camp is upface from our facility.

   • 2003, Italian Habitats: Sand dunes and beaches:

     On one hand, their presence will give rise to considerable advance of beaches which are upface with respect to prevailing longshore currents; on the other hand, equally evident retreat will follow to the lee of beaches following the barriers.

Anagrams

• face up, face-up, faceup