upfaceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

upface (複数形 upfaces)

1. The face that is oriented upwards.
   • 1949, United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, ‎United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration, Agricultural Conservation Program: Handbook, page 104:

     Channel terraces should be constructed by moving most of the dirt from the upface of the terrace.

   • 1974, Steven Jerome Bryant, College algebra and trigonometry, page 388:

     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.

   • 2012, Hung T. Nguyen, ‎Gerald S. Rogers, Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, page 104:

     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.

2. (dogs) A face that has a protruding chin and/or recessed nose.
   • 1926, The Dog Fancier - Volume 35, page 27:

     Oddy has the squarest muzzle and best filled-in foreface that we have ever seen on a Bulldog, while his "upface" expression is marvelous.

   • 1952, Milo Grange Denlinger, The complete Saint Bernard, page 159:

     The downface is much the more serious fault, and a very slight upface or dishface can be tolerated without penalty.

   • 1971, American Kennel Gazette, Pure-bred Dogs:

     In solids we had two most excellent Champions of the King Charles Variety and they were of superb type, with excellent domed heads, good muzzles and the very typical upface of a cushioned and recessed nose.