different between likeness vs photostat
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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photostat
English
Noun
photostat (plural photostats)
- (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine.
- Positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.
Verb
photostat (third-person singular simple present photostats, present participle photostatting or photostating, simple past and past participle photostatted or photostated)
- (transitive) To make such a photocopy of.
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