different between eyebrow vs forehead

English

Etymology

From Middle English e?ebreu, alteration of Old English ?aganbr? (“eyebrow”), equivalent to eye +? brow. The corresponding Old English ?agbr?w meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw (“eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow”), German Augenbraue (“eyebrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??b?a?/

Noun

eyebrow (plural eyebrows)

1. The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
2. (construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
3. A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.

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Verb

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

1. (intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
2. (transitive) To signal with one's eyebrows.
   • 2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie (page 23)

     Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow. Barrow gestured at him to stay put. Rodas settled back.

See also

• brow
• eyelash
• eyelid
• supercilium
• unibrow

References

• eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English f?reh?afod, foranh?afod (“forehead”), corresponding to fore- +? head. Cognate withScots foreheid (“forehead”),Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).

Alternative forms

• for'ead, forrad, forread, forred, forrid (variable or uncertain spellings representing dialect or variant pronunciation)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??h?d/, /?f????d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???d/, /?f???h?d/

Noun

forehead (countable and uncountable, plural foreheads)

1. (countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan

     'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
2. (uncountable) confidence; audacity
3. The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

Synonyms

• brow

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