different between interface vs frontage

English

Etymology

From inter- (“between”) +? face (“shape, figure, form”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt?fe?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt??fe?s/
• Hyphenation: inter?face
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

interface (plural interfaces)

1. The point of interconnection or contact between entities.

   Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.

2. (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.

   If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.

   The surface of a lake is a water-air interface.

3. (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

   The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.

4. (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.

   The options are selected via the user interface.

5. (computing, object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software.

   This interface is implemented by several Java classes.

   Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin, as an interface contains only method signatures, while a trait includes also the full method definitions; on the other side mixins include method definitions, but they can also carry state through attributes, while traits usually don't.

6. (computing, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.

   The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface.

7. (biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).

Hyponyms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???????? (int?f?su)
• ? Korean: ????? (inteopeiseu)
• ? Russian: ?????????? (interféjs)
  • ? Kazakh: ????????? (ïnterfeys)

Translations

References

• interface on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

interface (third-person singular simple present interfaces, present participle interfacing, simple past and past participle interfaced)

1. (transitive) To construct an interface for.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To connect through an interface.
3. (intransitive) To serve as an interface.
4. (business, intransitive) To meet for discussion.

   Let's interface on Wednesday.

Translations

See also

• mixin
• trait

Anagrams

• re infecta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.fas/

Noun

interface f (plural interfaces)

1. interface
2. (object-oriented programming) interface

Verb

interface

1. first-person singular present indicative of interfacer
2. third-person singular present indicative of interfacer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of interfacer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of interfacer
5. second-person singular imperative of interfacer

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

interface f (plural interfaces)

1. interface (point of interconnection between entities)
2. (computing) interface (point of interconnection between systems or subsystems)
3. (computing) interface (connection between a user and a machine)
4. (object-oriented programming) interface (piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:interface.

English

Etymology

front +? -age

Noun

frontage (countable and uncountable, plural frontages)

1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter III, p. 41, [1]

     Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.

   • 1981, Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, 1983, Chapter I, p. 5,

     BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.

2. The land between a property and the street.
3. The length of a property along a street.
4. Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
   • 1939, Time, 12 June, 1939, [2]

     And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]

   • 2016, The Chronicle Herald, 25 May, 2016, [3]

     It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.

5. The front part generally.
   • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.; Bartleby.com, 1999, [4]

     […] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18, [5]

     War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.

Coordinate terms

• facade

Derived terms

• frontage road

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