Identikit

(aɪˈdɛntɪˌkɪt)

1. (Law)

a. a set of transparencies of various typical facial characteristics that can be superimposed on one another to build up, on the basis of a description, a picture of a person sought by the police

b. (as modifier): an Identikit picture.

2. (modifier) artificially created by copying different elements in an attempt to form a whole: an Identikit pop group.

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Noun

Identikit - 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

Identikit picture

likeness, semblance - picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product

Translations

identikit disegno di riconoscimento

Identikit®

identikit® [aɪˈdɛntɪkɪt] n (also Identikit picture) → portrait-robot m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Identikit®

n Identikit (picture) → Phantombild nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Identikit

® [aɪˈdɛntɪˌkɪt] n Identikit (picture) → identikit m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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New identikit pictures led the suspect's neighbours to raise the alarm about the Shuvalov, who works at a local coal mine.

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A mason from the village where the murdered journalist and his fianceacutee were found claims he knows the man from the identikit who is wanted for questioning.A man identified as Marek, aged 38, from the village of Ve#318kaacute Ma#269a, contacted the Novyacute #268as daily concerning the identikit picture presented by the Special Prosecutor's Office earlier in September.

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This developed on to artists impressions and by the 1960s Identikit was used in Britain to produce an artist's impression of murder suspect Edwin Bush (above).

From artist's impression to computer - changes over the years

Identikit waste bins an Iron Curtain reminder WHEN we were introducing the first western built jets behind the Iron Curtain (Romania's State Airline 'Tarom') in the late 1960s, most days Nicolae Ceaucescu's ministers seem to take great pleasure in sticking us in the back of their Zil limousines for a tour of row after row after row of Bucharest's identical (inside and outside) high-rise concrete blocks of flats, completely ignoring the fact there were no design features, trees or gardens, as the whole complex was surrounded by an untidy higgledy-piggledy array of hundreds of government issued dustbins.

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