Crossword clues for faceplate
Wiktionary
n. 1 A removable protective shield separating the inner workings of a machine from operator and observer. 2 A rigid flat surface that has an active role in the interaction of a device with an operator or user.
WordNet
n. a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component)
Wikipedia
Faceplate (face plate, face-plate) is a plastic or metal plate, cover, or bezel on the face (front) of a device or surface, such as:
- Electrical outlet (also referred to as a wall plate, outlet cover, or socket cover)
- Fender Silverface and Blackface guitar amplifiers
- Front panel of early computers
- Head unit, stereo system component
- Instrument panel (disambiguation)
- Lathe faceplate
- Lockset
- Motherboard I/O (input/output) port panel such as on an ATX
- Service specific face plate, an ADSL British telephone socket cover
- Stem (bicycle part)
- Telephones such as the Model 500 telephone and various mobile phones and smartphones
- Video game consoles and accessories
- Nintendo Game Boy Micro
- Nintendo Wii Remote
- PlayStation 3 accessories
- Xbox 360
- Wallpaper steamer
Usage examples of "faceplate".
Fisher was still hollering, his big square teeth showing in the faceplate of his mask.
He compressed his lips in gratitude and peered through his faceplate, looking delighted in a pious way.
There was a family resemblancethe faceplate showed enough of the broad nose and heavy jaw, the bright close-set eyes.
He was holding his watch dial against his faceplate in order to see it.
Fisher peered into the faceplate and saw that Murdick was weeping with pink eyes.
He was humiliated and broken, and he looked especially absurd in his expensive flying suit and helmet-his small face in the wide faceplate, his gloves making his hands look like fat mitts.
This one was blue-black, with antenna plugs, a chin mike, and a faceplate that looked to be an inch thickperhaps a combat model.
Hooper in a comfortable upturned way through the faceplate of his mask.
The demon faceplate, made of bulletproof high-gloss Velmar, had red flames painted on the eyebrows, and red pointed earsthe concealed phones.
Everything he said in that faceplate made him seem either cruel or foolish.
Fisher screwed a tube of protein fiber onto the suckhole of his faceplate and slurped it.
He had been left alone in the temporary camp, but even if someone had remained the boy would not have been audible, because his mask was on and his faceplate was down.
He had put on the helmet again and was yakking through the open hatch at the frontthe faceplate was up.
He usually wore the helmet, and often with the faceplate down, so that he seemed bizarre and doll-like in that wilderness.
Fisher at the rear, scowling, with his faceplate propped up, and the legs of his suit making a loud scraping as they rubbed together.