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Princeton's WordNet

  1. confrontation, encounter, showdown, face-offnoun

    a hostile disagreement face-to-face

  2. face-offverb

    (ice hockey) the method of starting play; a referee drops the puck between two opposing players

  3. face off, bully offverb

    start a game by a face-off

Wiktionary

  1. face-offnoun

    A confrontation or argument between two people or groups

    It's unclear which side will win the latest face-off between the President and Congress.

  2. face-offnoun

    The start of play, when two players try to get control of the puck dropped by the referee

Wikipedia

  1. Face-off

    A face-off is the method used to begin and restart play after goals in some sports using sticks, primarily ice hockey, bandy, floorball, broomball, rinkball, and lacrosse. During a face-off, two teams line up in opposition to each other, and the opposing players attempt to gain control of the puck or ball after it is dropped or otherwise placed between their sticks by an official.

ChatGPT

  1. face-off

    A face-off is a situation, mostly in sports, where the game is started or resumed by two opposing players contesting for control of the ball or puck. It can also generally represent confrontation or a direct competitive situation between two parties.

Wikidata

  1. Face-off

    A faceoff is the method used to begin play in ice hockey and some other sports. The two teams line up in opposition to each other, and the opposing skaters attempt to gain control of the puck after it is dropped between their sticks by an official. Faceoffs are generally handlled by centres, although some wingers and a small number of defensemen also handle faceoffs. One of the referees drops the puck at centre ice to start each period and following the scoring of a goal. The linesmen are responsible for all other faceoffs.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of face-off in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of face-off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of face-off in a Sentence

  1. Mike McCarthy:

    There's a face-off between investors and traders, investors see value in the market. They are met by traders who see the market at the top of the trading range.

  2. Myles Zyblock:

    I'm concerned that it's more of a value trapped in a value opportunity, you're seeing rip-your-face-off rallies followed by rip-your-face-off sell-offs.

  3. John Thurman:

    I tried to get to some of my colleagues that I knew were in the room, we were at that point of having to crawl on the floor and because it was now full of smoke, very hot air. You took your face off the floor and you couldn't breathe.

  4. David Axelrod:

    No one is going to hand Biden the Democratic nomination. He'll have to engage fully and fight for it if he is to get the face-off with Trump he is seeking.

  5. Liz Ann Sonders:

    The tone of the market, I think, has changed, there's this realization of the Fed moving on the path towards policy normalization, it's normally pretty bumpy, even if we come out the other side and get rip-your-face-off rallies along the way.


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    is face off the same as face to face?
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