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Portrait vs Selfie - What's the difference?

portrait | selfie |

As nouns the difference between portrait and selfie

is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while selfie is a photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

As verbs the difference between portrait and selfie

is that portrait is to portray; to draw while selfie is to take a selfie.

As an adjective portrait

is representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

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.

    • Related terms

    * portray

    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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    selfie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
  • * 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" ABC Online Forum [[http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040118000958/http://mcs.une.edu.au/~nhope/lip.jpg selfie photo]:
    • Um, drunk at a mates(SIC) 21st, I tripped ofer(SIC) and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie .
  • * 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/], Flickr:
    • Pre. Nice rooftop selfie'. No Hair. Another nice rooftop ' selfie .
  • * 2005 , Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index , HOW Books (2005), ISBN 9781581807660, page 148:
    • That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie .
  • * 2012' December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A '''Selfie ” [http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie], ''the picture show , National Public Radio
  • * 2013' December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘'''Selfie -Gate’”, ''On the Media , National Public Radio:
    • Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Hypernyms

    * self-portrait

    Verb

  • (informal) to take a selfie

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