facing pages
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3.0
- noun
- Specialized
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páginas opuestas
- Then on the facing page, a beauty shot of Gulden's mustard.
Same thing here facing pages, you know, Latin and English.
- Same thing here facing pages, you know, Latin and English.
- Arias Didymus's epitome of Stoic ethics, Greek on facing page.
- It would be half the length if it were not facing pages.
Examples
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When I opened the novel, I was surprised to see illustrations on the facing pages that vividly depicted the story.
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There was a sketch on the journal's facing page.
Academic text (2003) -
See story on facing page.
Academic text (2002) -
On the facing page, we see a drawing of JOSH with his name surrounded by RED HEARTS.
Fiction book (2001) -
Edgar stands in the aisle fitting together the two facing pages of the reproduction.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Quechua text on the facing page remained runic and impenetrable.
Fiction book (1995) -
A cross-sectional view of the rotor (on the facing page) shows the cavities and placement of the brush seals.
Academic text (1998) -
Current excavations, facing page, have revealed the remains of one of Egypt's earliest temples, fronting onto an oval courtyard.
Academic text (2003) -
The instructions for the recipe are on the facing pages of the cookbook, making it easy to follow.
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In the magazine, the article on the left discusses fashion trends, while the facing page features a related photo shoot.
Synonyms
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5.8
Two pages in a book or magazine viewed together
Two pages that face each other when a book or magazine is open
Surface Forms
Morphology
facing + page
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'facing' (present participle of 'face', meaning oriented toward or opposite) with 'pages' — i.e. pages that face each other. This is a straightforward spatial composition found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should infer the meaning.
Etymology
Facing pages comes from the picture of a book opened flat, where two facing pages sit opposite each other when the book is open, so you see them together. That's why the term means two pages that are next to each other in a book.