Meaning of facade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
2. The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation
3. The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
   broadly
4. The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ
5. A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
   figuratively
6. A deceptive or insincere outward appearance
7. An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
8. An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern

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Examples

“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.”

“Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.”

“The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.””

“Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.”

“Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.”

“If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.”

“I wandered across to the window and looked out. Quite consciously I began saying good-bye to it all. The sun was low. Towers, spires, and façades of Portland stone were white or pink against the dimming sky.”

“he wanted to know who she was deep down inside, the real Penny behind the pleasant, people-pleasing façade, as was her fate as a woman and mother”

“From the 4th Century BCE onwards, the Lycians built rock-hewn "house" tombs – often funeral chambers carved into cliffs, with the rock face around the doorway cut to imitate the façade of a wooden Lycian house, complete with "timbers" and protruding "joists".”

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