Word Finder - obverse

definition

The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.

example

The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.

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A proposition obtained by obversion, e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal.

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Turned or facing toward the observer.

example

The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.

synonyms

• facing
• presenting

definition

Corresponding; complementary.

example

When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.

synonyms

• analogous
• like
• parallel
• reciprocal

definition

Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.

example

an obverse leaf

We always wonder whether people who call the obverse the front side also call the reverse the back side!

The 3 Designs All three designs share the same common obverse, but the reverse designs differ.

Obverse - Fourth portrait All 2003 coins carried the fourth portrait obverse - Fourth portrait All 2003 coins carried the fourth portrait obverse design by Ian Rank-Broadley.

The medal's obverse (side worn outwards) consists of the crowned profile of Queen Elizabeth II.

Turning the stone over, the obverse side showed a delicate trace of leaves; shiny black against the gray shale.

Known as three Three Swami obverse design, the reverse is simply a stippled pattern of dots.

If it is not written there, try checking the metal panel on the obverse side of your unit by unplugging it and turning it around.

With very few exceptions only the name AP/AKHI (with various epithets) occurs on the coins of the Parthian kings, and the obverse generally shows the seated figure of the founder of the dynasty, holding in his hand a strung bow.

These latter bore (obverse) a Nepalese emblem surrounded by eight fleurons containing the eight sacred Buddhist jewels, and (reverse) an eight-petalled flower surrounded by eight fleurons containing the names of the eight jewels in Tibetan characters.

Coins were also struck, showing her crowned and veiled on the obverse, with a double cornucopia on the reverse.

Alwar was the first native state to accept a currency struck at the Calcutta mint, of the same weight and assay as the imperial rupee, with the head of the British sovereign on the obverse.

In the British Museum are the bronze matrices of seals of ZEthilwald, bishop of Dunwich, about Boo; of lElfric, alderman of Hampshire, about 985; and the finely carved ivory double matrix of Godwin the thane (on the obverse) and of the nun Godcythe (on the reverse), of the beginning of the 11th century.

But there are examples of elaborate matrices composed of several pieces, from the impressions of which the seal was built up in an ingenious fashion, both obverse and reverse being carved in hollow work, through which figures and subjects impressed on an inner layer of wax are to be seen.

Other royal official seals usually bear on the obverse the king enthroned or mounted, and the royal arms on the reverse.

If there be a counterseal, the figure of patron paint or founder may stand there, while the building occupies the obverse.

Such specimens as have descended to us show that the golden bulla of the middle ages was usually hollow, being formed of two thin plates of metal stamped with the designs of obverse and reverse, soldered together at the edges and padded with wax or plaster.

In many respects, Pauline Christianity is the obverse of the Pharisaic creed.

Hanging from a light blue ribbon it had the King's head on the obverse while the reverse bore the words " Militia.

The obverse (front) shows a cherub blowing a flashlight in an attempt to re-kindle it.

Al the issues would have the common obverse of a picture of Victory.

Anselm's natural element was theology, and the high metaphysical questions which are as it were the obverse of theology.

Those heresy-hunts show us the worst side of St Bernard, yet they are in a way just the obverse of his deep mystical piety.

The obverse has usually a male head, sometimes inscribed with what appears to be a native name.

On the obverse is generally the king, who, in the earlier coins at any rate, wears a long open coat, knee boots and a tall cap - clearly the costume of a nomad from the north.

Of younger coins the first series has a king's head on the reverse, and the old obverse is enriched with two Sabaean monograms, which have been interpreted as meaning " majesty " and "eponymus " respectively.