two-faced Janus

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• two-faced — adjective 1. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another she was a deceitful scheming little thing Israel Zangwill a double dealing double agent a double faced infernal …   Useful english dictionary

• two-faced — adj hypocritical, double tongued, double faced, Janus faced; deceitful, insincere, disingenuous, false, mendacious, untruthful, hollow; dishonest, underhanded, untrustworthy, crooked, knavish; wily, tricky, designing, scheming, guileful, double… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• two-faced — two facedly /tooh fay sid lee, fayst lee/, adv. two facedness, n. /tooh fayst /, adj. 1. having two faces. 2. deceitful or hypocritical. Cf. Janus faced. [1610 20] Syn. 2. treacherous, devious, dishonest, false. * * * …   Universalium

• two-faced — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hypocritical, deceitful, double dealing; faithless, false. See falsehood, deception. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceitful, caviling, treacherous, Janus faced; see false 1 , hypocritical . III… …   English dictionary for students

• two faced — Synonyms and related words: Janus like, Machiavellian, ambidextrous, artful, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, calculating, chiseling, collusive, conduplicate, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Janus particle — A Janus particle is a spherical microscopic particle that is composed of two physically or chemically differing hemispheres.ee also* JanusExternal links* [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub releases/2008 02/ncsu pa022708.php physorg.com: Two faced… …   Wikipedia

• Janus kinase — (JAK) is a family of intracellular non receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine mediated signals via the JAK STAT pathway. They were initially named just another kinase 1 2 (since they were just two of a large number of discoveries in a… …   Wikipedia

• Janus (programming language) — Janus is a computer programming language partially described by K. Kahn and Vijay A. Saraswat in [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/97946.97955 Actors as a special case of concurrent constraint (logic) programming ] , in SIGPLAN Notices , October 1990.… …   Wikipedia

• Janus-faced — [jā′nəsfāst΄] adj. two faced; deceiving …   English World dictionary

• Janus-faced — adjective 1. having or concerned with polarities or contrasts (Freq. 1) a Janus faced view of history a Janus faced policy • Similar to: ↑bipolar 2. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under… …   Useful english dictionary

• Janus — For other uses, see Janus (disambiguation). Bifrons redirects here. For other uses, see Bifrons (disambiguation). A statue representing Janus Bifrons in the Vatican Museums In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings… …   Wikipedia