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likeness

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likeness
/luyk"nis/, n.
1. a representation, picture, or image, esp. a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
2. the state or fact of being like: I can't get over your likeness to my friend.
3. the semblance or appearance of something; guise: to assume the likeness of a swan.
[bef. 950; ME liknesse, OE licnes, var. of GELICNES. See ALIKE, -NESS]
Syn. 2. resemblance, similitude. 3. shape, form.

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Фильмы

  • Freed China., 1950 — Shooting of Civil War. Celebrating anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Beijing and other cities, attractions, businesses, schools and universities, shops, transport, cultural facilities (theaters, libraries). Great Wall of China. Rivers, landscapes, pastures, grain fields. The Chinese are working in factories and fields, transportation on roads, construction of cities and housing. The signing of the loan. Distributing of seeds and tools, put on the ground. Rallies in support of peace. Elimination of illiteracy. Restoring destroyed during the civil war economy. Treaty of friendship and economic cooperation with the USSR. Meetings of the Party committees in the field and the Politburo of the CC CP of China with Mao Tse-tung and others. Life of Chinese in urban and rural areas. Maneuvers of the Red Army of China. Health care. Pioneer organization of the PRC. Sports competitions, amateur. The work of agitators. Wedding ceremony.
  • The Story about the Communist., 1976 — About the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev.
  • Heirs., 1978 — About the XVIII Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union. A review film dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union.