different between phase vs likeness

English

Etymology 1

From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek ????? (phásis, “an appearance”), from ????? (pháein, “to shine”); compare phantasm and see face.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: f?z, IPA^(key): /fe?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Hyphenation: phase
• Homophone: faze

Noun

phase (plural phases)

1. A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
2. That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
3. Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.

   The problem has many phases.

4. (astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.

5. (physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
6. (chemistry) A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
7. (zoology) In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.
8. (rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
9. (genetics) A haplotype.
10. (mathematics) The arctangent of the quotient formed by dividing the imaginary part of a complex number by the real part.

    Synonym: argument

11. (music) A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
12. (electrical engineering) In a polyphase electrical power system, one of the power-carrying conductors, or the alternating current carried by it.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• phase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

phase (third-person singular simple present phases, present participle phasing, simple past and past participle phased)

1. (with in or out) To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).

   The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.

2. Obsolete form of faze.
3. (genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
4. To pass into or through a solid object.

Usage notes

See notes at faze.

Hyponyms

• phase in
• phase out

Derived terms

• phaseable
• unphased

Etymology 2

From Latin phase (“passover”), Phasa, from Hebrew ??????? (pésach).

Alternative forms

• Phase

Proper noun

phase

1. (obsolete) Passover

References

Anagrams

• HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, shape

Dutch

Noun

phase f (plural phasen or phases, diminutive phasetje n)

1. Obsolete spelling of fase.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faz/

Noun

phase f (plural phases)

1. phase

Derived terms

• phase de poule

Further reading

• “phase” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• Phase

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (phasék, “Passover”), from a Semitic language.

Noun

phase n (indeclinable)

1. Passover
2. the Passover sacrifice; Paschal Lamb

Synonyms

• pascha

Descendants

• Old English: phase

References

• Phase in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Portuguese

Noun

phase f (plural phases)

1. Obsolete spelling of fase (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

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)

1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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)

1. (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.

See also

• copy
• portrait
• analogy
• alikeness

Anagrams

• eelskins