Portrait vs Facsimile - What's the difference?
portrait | facsimile | Related terms |
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.
A copy or reproduction.
* 1990 , James M. Thompson, Twentieth Century Theories of Art (page 540)
A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
The image sent by the machine itself.
To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
Portrait is a related term of facsimile.
As nouns the difference between portrait and facsimile
is that portrait is while facsimile is facsimile.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
(-)- a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
facsimile
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Noun
(en noun)- To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?