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Definition of Face off
1. Verb. Start a game by a face-off.
Definition of Face off
1. Noun. (sports) The starting point, in a match of ice hockey. Two players face each other, for snatching the puck. ¹
2. Noun. Either an actual or a figurative face to face confrontation, especially a bitter one. ¹
3. Verb. To confront someone ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Face Off
Literary usage of Face off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Locomotive Up to Date by Charles McShane (1920)
"If a solid bull ring, chuck and face off one side, reverse in chuck and face off to
... Chuck and face off true, turn off outside 1/32" smaller than the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"face off, 86072-892 Pendulum No. 4, Face on, 86171-870 „ „ .„ face off, 86172-297
Finally, we give an example of one experiment, with the mode of its ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"One way to face off the disk is by means of a diamond or sapphire tool after
placing the carbon in the chuck of a small and very accurate lathe. ..."
4. Practical Pattern Making by Frank Wilson Barrows (1913)
"After this first course has been glued to the face-plate and the glue has dried,
take it to the lathe and face off level, then turn circumference of ring ..."
5. One Thousand Pointers for Machinists & Engineers by Charles McShane (1897)
"If for double nozzle, put a center in each end and face off each end in lathe,
making right length. If for single nozzle, clamp on boring mill, ..."
6. Receipts and Remedies: Useful Hints for Everyone on Health, Beauty, Clothing by Louis Andrew Flemming (1908)
"Wipe the face off gently and put on a light layer of this pomade : Glycerite of
starch, fifty grams; zinc oxide, five grams ; tincture of benzoin, ..."
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