different between likeness vs accurate
likeness
English
Etymology
From Middle English liknesse, from Old English l?cness, ?el?cnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *gal?kanass? (“likeness”), equivalent to like +? -ness. Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?kn?s/
- Hyphenation: like?ness
Noun
likeness (plural likenesses)
- The state or quality of being like or alike
- 1822, Connop Thirlwall translating Ludwig Tieck, The Pictures
- Erich thought he observed a likeness between the stranger and a relative of Walther; this led them into the chapter of likenesses, and the strange way in which certain forms repeat themselves in families, often most distinctly in the most remote ramifications.
- Synonyms: similitude, resemblance, similarity
- 1822, Connop Thirlwall translating Ludwig Tieck, The Pictures
- Appearance or form; guise.
- A foe in the likeness of a friend
- Genesis, I, 26
- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- That which closely resembles; a portrait.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Synonyms
- similarity
Derived terms
- mislikeness
Related terms
- like
Translations
Verb
likeness (third-person singular simple present likenesses, present participle likenessing, simple past and past participle likenessed)
- (archaic, transitive) To depict.
- 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), ?ISBN, page 171:
- I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
- 1868, November, advertisement, in Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume XXXII, Number 21, after page 320:
- Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.
- 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), ?ISBN, page 171:
See also
- copy
- portrait
- analogy
- alikeness
Anagrams
- eelskins
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accurate
English
Etymology
- First attested in the 1610s.
- (exactness): First attested in the 1650s.
- From Latin acc?r?tus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of acc?r? (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + c?r? (“take care”), from c?ra (“care”).
- See cure.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æk.j?.??t/, /?æk.j?.??t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æk.j?.??t/
Adjective
accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)
- Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
- Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Usage notes
- We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment.
- We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars.
- We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness.
- We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Synonyms
- correct
- exact
- just
- nice
- particular
Antonyms
- inaccurate
Derived terms
- accuracy
- accurately
Translations
Anagrams
- carucate
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
accurate
- Inflected form of accuraat
Interlingua
Adjective
accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)
- accurate
Related terms
- accuratia
Italian
Adjective
accurate f pl
- feminine plural of accurato
Anagrams
- cacature
Latin
Etymology
From acc?r?tus (“elaborate, exact”)
Adverb
acc?r?t? (comparative acc?r?tius, superlative acc?r?tissim?)
- carefully, precisely, exactly
Related terms
- acc?r?ti?
- acc?r?tus
- acc?r?
References
- accurate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accurate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accurate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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