different between facade vs fixate

English

Alternative forms

• façade (French spelling with the cedilla)

Etymology

From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faci?s (“face”); compare face.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /f??sa?d/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /f??s??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

facade (plural facades)

1. (architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
   • 1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries

     In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were […] ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.

   • 1880, Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages

     Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.

   • The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth?; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

   • 2005, Peter Brandvold, “Ghost Colts”, in Robert J. Randisi (ed.), Lone Star Law,^[1] Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, page 179,

     Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.

2. (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.
3. (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front.
4. (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.

Synonyms

• (face of a building): face, front, frontage
• (deceptive outward appearance): appearance, cover, front, guise, pretence, show

Coordinate terms

• (front of a building): frontage
• (deceptive appearance): See Thesaurus:fake

Related terms

• facade pattern

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Further reading

• facade at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “facade”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Danish

Etymology

From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faci?s (“face”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fa?sæ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

facade c (singular definite facaden, plural indefinite facader)

1. façade

Inflection

English

Verb

fixate (third-person singular simple present fixates, present participle fixating, simple past and past participle fixated)

1. (transitive) To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
2. To stare fixedly at something.
3. (intransitive) To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on.
4. (intransitive, psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner; used with on.

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