upface

upface noun: the face that is oriented upwards.

Noun

upface (plural upfaces)

The face that is oriented upwards.
- Channel terraces should be constructed by moving most of the dirt from the upface of the terrace.1949, United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration, Agricultural Conservation Program: Handbook...
- Naturally, we take as the set of possible outcomes S = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), where the possible outcomes are the possible numbers on the upface.1974, Steven Jerome Bryant, College algebra and trigonometry, page 388
A face that has a protruding chin and/or recessed nose.
- Oddy has the squarest muzzle and best filled-in foreface that we have ever seen on a Bulldog, while his "upface" expression is marvelous.1926, The Dog Fancier - Volume 35, page 27
- The downface is much the more serious fault, and a very slight upface or dishface can be tolerated without penalty.1952, Milo Grange Denlinger, The complete Saint Bernard, page 159

upface (third-person singular simple present upfaces, present participle upfacing, simple past and past participle upfaced)

To turn face-up.
- Harry Borden upfaced his hidden card.1923, Leon Stern, Elisabeth Gertrude Stern, A Friend at Court, page 275
- But chiefly I remember the incident for that moment when M— stared down, stunned, at the incriminating cards upfaced before him by Stanton, while Webster, Ray Rohn and I waited in throbbing silence for his eyes to lift to our faces.1934, Berton Braley, Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel, page 142

upface (comparative more upface, superlative most upface)

On the upward-oriented face.
- The RPM must be capable of producing surface finishes of 64 RMS or better on all surfaces of the finished parts and 10 RMS or better on all upface surfaces without post process finishing.1995, Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities

upface (comparative more upface, superlative most upface)

With the face pointing upwards.
- He is like Ratnasambhava: yellow, r.h. holds a jewel marked with a vajra with the middle finger as he enacts the varada mudrā, l.h. likes upface in the lap.1999, Lokesh Chandra, Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, page 1165
Upwards along the face
- As he edged into old age he let his sideburns grow into chops and the chops curved upface to form a moustache, about as distinctive a set of hirsute decorations to be seen in all Middle Europe.1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, Part 3, page 50
- This development is opposite of 'lateral flattening' seen in Heterohelix glabrans (Cushman) in which chambers flatten rapidly and aperture is reduced to a narrow slit extending upface.1980, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India - Volume 25, page 61
Farther up the face
- Corresponds to condition of concrete, (except for a thin portion upface), in dam during early stages of flow as long as water is saturated with lime.1936, American Concrete Institute, Proceedings - Volume 32, page 231
- Your work camp is upface from our facility.1986, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/science Fact - Volume 106, page 14

When we assume only that the die is not fair, without assigning probability values to each of the upfaces, then the distribution is not determined exactly and the hypothesis is composite.2012, Hung T. Nguyen, Gerald S. Rogers, Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, page 104:
If the touched card is not the right one, keep it back in the pack and upface the other.1989, The Illustrated Weekly of India - Volume 110, Issues 14-26, page 68:
Start in a broken area of the wall and continue upface in a series of steps and chimneys.1987, Fred W. Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guide: Columbia River to Stevens Pass, page 76:

Noun
plural	upfaces
Verb
third-person singular present	upfaces
present participle	upfacing
past participle	upfaced
past	upfaced
Adjective
comparative	more upface
superlative	most upface
Adverb
comparative	more upface
superlative	most upface

What does upface mean?: Upface means the face that is oriented upwards.
How do you use upface in a sentence?: When we assume only that the die is not fair, without assigning probability values to each of the upfaces, then the distribution is not determined exactly and the hypothesis is composite.
What part of speech is upface?: Upface can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb.
What is the plural of upface?: The plural of upface is upfaces.

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