Avatar vs Portrait - What's the difference?
avatar | portrait |
In Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification.
* 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, dedicatory letter to Kidnapped [contrasting the historical Alan Breac with his incarnation in the novel].
(computing, or, gaming) A digital representation or handle of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. i.e. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room.
* 1992 (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash)
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A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
* Sir J. Reynolds
(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
As nouns the difference between avatar and portrait
is that avatar is avatar (the earthly incarnation of a deity, particularly vishnu) while portrait is .avatar
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Alternative forms
* avatara (rare) * Avator (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- And honest Alan, who was a grim fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid...
- The people are pieces of software called avatars . They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.
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portrait
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Alternative forms
* pourtraict (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profileAdjective
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