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facades

facades is the plural of facade.

facades is the third-person singular simple present indicative of facade.

Meaning of facade

Noun

facade (plural facades)

  1. The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
    • 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.1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries
    Synonyms:
    face, front, frontage
  2. (broadly) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
  3. (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
  4. An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
    • Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.2017, Evan Burchard, Refactoring JavaScript: Turning Bad Code Into Good Code, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 311

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Questions about facades

What is facades the plural of?
Facades is the plural of facade.

Words near facades in the dictionary

  1. facade pattern
  2. facade patterns
  3. facadectomies
  4. facadectomy
  5. facaded
  6. facades
  7. facading
  8. facadism
  9. Facchinello
  10. Facciola's sorcerer
  11. Faccombe

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