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Likeness vs Photostat - What's the difference?

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Likeness is a related term of photostat.


As nouns the difference between likeness and photostat

is that likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity while photostat is (dated) a photocopy, especially one made by a (photostat machine).

As verbs the difference between likeness and photostat

is that likeness is (archaic|transitive) to depict while photostat is to make such a photocopy.

likeness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
  • Appearance or form; guise.
    • An enemy 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

    Related terms

    * like

    See also

    * copy * portrait * analogy

    Verb

    (es)
  • (archaic) To depict.
  • * 1857 , April 25, , in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870 , Belknap Press (1987), ISBN 0-674-52583-3, 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 's Home Magazine , Volume XXXII, Number 21, after page 320:
    • Every member of the family [of is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.

    photostat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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

    (en-verb)
  • To make such a photocopy.
  • * 2008 , Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
    • as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.