different between photograph vs likeness

English

Etymology

photo- +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.t?.?????f/, [?f??.t???.??????f]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?.t?.???æf/, [?f??.??.????æf]

Noun

photograph (plural photographs)

1. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• photograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)

1. (transitive) and (intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
   • 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

     He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
   • 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands

     He is photographed on my mind.

3. (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

Translations

Anagrams

• phagotroph

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