Noun
The face that is oriented upwards.
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Channel terraces should be constructed by moving most of the dirt from the upface of the terrace.
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.
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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.
A face that has a protruding chin and/or recessed nose.
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Oddy has the squarest muzzle and best filled-in foreface that we have ever seen on a Bulldog, while his "upface" expression is marvelous.
The downface is much the more serious fault, and a very slight upface or dishface can be tolerated without penalty.
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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.
Verb
To turn face-up.
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Harry Borden upfaced his hidden card.
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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.
If the touched card is not the right one, keep it back in the pack and upface the other. If the touched card is the real thing, upface it immediately.
Adjective
On the upward-oriented face.
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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.
Adverb
With the face pointing upwards.
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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.
Upwards along the face
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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.
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.
Start in a broken area of the wall and continue upface in a series of steps and chimneys.
Farther up the face
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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.
Your work camp is upface from our facility.
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On one hand, their presence will give rise to considerable advance of beaches which are upface with respect to prevailing longshore currents; on the other hand, equally evident retreat will follow to the lee of beaches following the barriers.