different between raced vs faced

English

Pronunciation

Verb

raced

1. simple past tense and past participle of race

Adjective

raced (not comparable)

1. (social studies) Belonging to a certain race of people.
   • 2007, Steve Garner, Whiteness: An Introduction (page 39)

     McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced.

   • 2011, Richard A. Bailey, Race and Redemption in Puritan New England (page 48)

     In fact, as Jordan's analysis attests, whites constructed raced identities for Africans founded not so much on their assumptions about a color but more on the various ways in which they experienced life alongside their darker-skinned neighbors.

Anagrams

• Cedar, Cerda, Cerdà, Dacre, acred, arced, cader, cadre, cared, cedar, decar, e-card, ecard

Welsh

Etymology

From English racket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rak?d/

Noun

raced f (plural racedi, not mutable)

1. racket

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “raced”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Etymology 1

face +? -ed

Verb

faced

1. simple past tense and past participle of face

Adjective

faced (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, [1]

     The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?

   • c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, [2]

     He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.

   • 1918, Siegried Sassoon, "Suicide in the Trenches" in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 81, [3]

     You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, [4]

     Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

2. Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of shit-faced.

Adjective

faced (comparative more faced, superlative most faced)

1. (slang) drunk

   That night was the first time I ever got faced.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunk

Anagrams

• decaf

Spanish

Verb

faced

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of facer.