Identikit
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- noun
- /ˈaɪdɛntɪˌkɪt/
- Specialized
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identikit
- File through image clarification, identikit sketches.
Examples
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So how would you sum up the identikit young person you might meet.
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This is from the identikit of the church arson that happened earlier today.
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Their identikit arguments seem to be taken one directly from another, to the point that they appear as Legion.
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You'll come away with a much more personal set of photos that are very different from the identikit snaps that most people bring home.
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Other characters deal with "emotions" with clumsy, identikit dialogue that works for about 40% of the characters Bendis writes.
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Rather, the emphasis seems to be upon constructing new identikit citizens who are, in the classroom at least, immune from the influences of the real world in which they live.
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Now, there was an identikit picture of Uwe Böhnhardt as a bank robber.
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It seems that the statistical model has yielded a picture strong in its main lines but stripped of idiosyncrasy, like an Identikit picture of one person based on the differing impressions of many witnesses.
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The police released an identikit of the suspect based on eyewitness descriptions.
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After the robbery, officers created an identikit to help locate the thief.
Synonyms
A picture of a face made from what witnesses say to help police identify a suspect
Compounds
A picture of a face made from what witnesses say to help police identify a suspect
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Identikit began as a brand name for a police tool. It comes from identify ('to know who someone is') and kit ('a set of tools'), so an Identikit is a tool that helps make a picture of a face by putting parts together to identify a person.