different between facial vs recognition

English

Etymology

Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faci?lis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faci?s (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fe?.??l/
• Rhymes: -e???l

Adjective

facial (not comparable)

1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
2. (medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to, as it is applied).

Coordinate terms

• (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular ^{(Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]}

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

facial (plural facials)

1. (medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
3. (slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
4. (slang, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.

Translations

References

• “facial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “facial”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• cafila

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f?.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa.si?al/

Adjective

facial (masculine and feminine plural facials)

1. facial

Further reading

• “facial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.sjal/

Adjective

facial (feminine singular faciale, masculine plural faciaux, feminine plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valeur faciale

Further reading

• “facial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Adjective

facial m or f (plural faciais, comparable)

1. facial (of the face)

Romanian

Etymology

From French facial

Adjective

facial m or n (feminine singular facial?, masculine plural faciali, feminine and neuter plural faciale)

1. facial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin faci?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /fa??jal/, [fa??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /fa?sjal/, [fa?sjal]

Adjective

facial (plural faciales)

1. facial

Derived terms

• valor facial

Related terms

• faz
• superficie
• acera

Further reading

• “facial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k???n???n/

Noun

recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)

1. The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

   He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

2. Acceptance as valid or true.

   The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
3. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
4. Honour, favourable note, or attention.

   The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.

5. (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
6. (Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.

Derived terms

Related terms

• recognitive
• recognitory

Translations

See also

• recognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• identification
• type approval