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单词 likeness
释义
likenesslike‧ness /ˈlaɪknəs/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Dmitri claimed there was a likeness, but I could never see it.
  • He likens creation to a painter mixing just four pigments to form the likenesses of all things.
  • His own likeness appears squeezed in above his initials in the right-hand corner.
  • In the first place, coins can supply portraits of persons for whom we have no other likeness.
  • In this church we have a striking and unusual likeness of a home.
  • Jonas's expression hardened to a remarkable likeness of his grandson's.
  • The likeness was remarkably good, certainly enough for a quick check at Immigration.
  • These are likenesses of the man who committed those attacks.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 I can see the family likeness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· A fair painting; free in style but at the same time a good likeness.
VERB
· Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father; so much so that he looked like a younger version.· Formal operational schemes, such as proportion and probability, bear a closer likeness to scientific reasoning.
· Would he perhaps see a likeness?· Getting closer, I saw the family likeness.· She was back at Madame Tussaud's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world's most celebrated Hall of Fame.· What you see is a three-dimensional likeness projected into space, at a distance from the plate.
1[countable, uncountable] the quality of being similar in appearance to someone or something SYN  resemblancelikeness to Hugh’s uncanny likeness to his father I can see the family likeness.2[countable] a painting or photograph of a person, especially one that looks very like the persongood/perfect/true etc likenesslikeness of That’s a remarkable likeness of Julia.
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