Word Finder - likenesses

definition

The state or quality of being like or alike

synonyms

• resemblance
• similarity
• similitude

definition

Appearance or form; guise.

example

A foe in the likeness of a friend

definition

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

example

How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

Its most suggestive likenesses are indicated above, but further evidence may render the similarity less striking when the meaning of it is more fully understood.

Spencer recognizes successively likenesses and unlikenesses among phenomena (the effects of the Unknowable), which are segregated into manifestations, vivid (object, nonego) or faint (subject, ego), and then into space and time, matter and motion and force, of which the last is symbolized for us by the experience of resistance, and is that out of which our ideas of matter and motion are built.

What this means is that other companies can still produce video games featuring the likenesses of other PGA personalities, but they cannot have Tiger Woods in their game.

Though a comparatively small number of species of birds are figured in this magnificent work (seventeen only in the first series, and twenty-two in the second), it must be mentioned here, for their likenesses are so admirably executed as to place it in regard to ornithological portraiture at the head of all others.

If the symmetry that is so noticeable in geological history had extended to climate as well, many geographical features might now present likenesses instead of contrasts.

The bread and wine before consecration are " likenesses of his body and blood," this in virtue of the words pronounced over them by Jesus on the night of his betrayal.

Reference may be made to two more sources of information (I) Supposed likenesses of Timur are to be found in books and in the splendid collection of Oriental manuscripts and drawings in the British Museum.

The title is based entirely on the NBC television show, featuring the likenesses and expertise of trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels, the latter of whom also has other fitness games available on the Nintendo Wii.

The game includes the voices of the film cast, as well as their likenesses.

The game also features "Dreamscapes" and the likenesses of musicians like Paul McCartney and Ringo Star.

Gamers have successfully created likenesses of Hugh Laurie, Anderson Cooper, and others.

I also got a good kick out of playing against real WPT personalities -- or their likenesses, at the very least -- including Erick Lindgren, Evelyn Ng, Antonio Esfandiari, and even the Unabomber, Phil Laak.

These figures stood eight inches tall and represented the physical likenesses of their real-life counterparts very closely.

The easiest way to do the makeup for this costume is to find photos or likenesses of the makeup designs first.

Accessories bearing the villains' likenesses are just as popular as those glass slippers and mermaid costumes favored by kids all over the world.

A website filled with two-dimensional likenesses of pop culture icons, all just waiting to be dressed up and made over.

The Emmy winning series survives as a cult hit on DVD, sparking continued interest in its characters and a market for the likenesses of Zim, GIR, and Dib on everything from action figures to pajamas.

Starting from the basis " that the phrase `birds are greatly modified reptiles' would hardly be an exaggerated expression of the closeness " of the resemblance between the two classes, which he had previously brigaded under the name of Sauropsida (as he had brigaded the Pisces and Amphibia as Ichthyopsida), he drew in bold outline both their likenesses and their differences, and then proceeded to inquire how the A y es could be most appropriately subdivided into orders, suborders and families.

They cease to be mere likenesses of the body and blood, and are changed into receptacles of divine power and intimacy, by swallowing which we are benefited in soul and body.