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Portrait vs Facsimile - What's the difference?

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Portrait is a related term of facsimile.


As nouns the difference between portrait and facsimile

is that portrait is while facsimile is facsimile.

portrait

English

Alternative forms

* pourtraict (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
  • In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
  • (figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
  • The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
  • (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
  • Antonyms

    * (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profile

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To portray; to draw.
  • (Spenser)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
  • a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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    facsimile

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A copy or reproduction.
  • * 1990 , James M. Thompson, Twentieth Century Theories of Art (page 540)
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (copy) autotype, copy, reproduction * (machine) facsimile machine, fax, fax machine * (copy made by a facsimile) facsimile reproduction, fax

    Verb

    (facsimil)
  • To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
  • Synonyms

    * fax, telefax