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Definition of Identikit

1. Noun. A likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought.

Definition of Identikit

1. Noun. a picture of a person, reconstructed from strips showing facial features selected to match witnesses' descriptions; used by the police to build a likeness of a person sought for a crime ¹

2. Noun. A general description for a composite sketch generated by a sketch artist, software, or a box of facial features on transparent foils that police officers and other public service professionals use to create a likeness of a person from a witness description. ¹

3. Adjective. (informal chiefly derogatory) Indistinguishable from each other. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Identikit

1. [n]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Identikit

Literary usage of Identikit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and His Manuscripts by Thomas Frederick Mayer (1999)
"An identikit of the author can be built up from the five uses "' Thomas F. Mayer, Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal: Humanist ..."

2. Financial Services Reform: Congressional Hearing edited by Michael G. Oxley (1999)
"My identikit tells you that I am a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution, but of course I speak only for myself. But there remains a difference, ..."

3. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"The identikit spreads like an echo. Someone who carries freight between Naples and here. You get indecipherable comments and shakes of the head. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1899)
"... would identikit with Vexford, in Stogumber, a situation more in accord with its position in Domesday. But this test cannot be insisted on, and all other ..."

5. A Hedonist's Guide to Lisbon by Sarah Marshall (2004)
"Unlike the many faceless and identikit bars that line the Doca de Santo Amaro, Op Art benefits from a trend-setting crowd of discerning clubbers. ..."

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