Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having close resemblance; similar.
- adverb In the same manner or to the same degree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; both.
- Having resemblance or similitude; similar; having or exhibiting no marked or essential difference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Now used only predicatively. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
- adverb In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
resemblance orsimilitude ;similar ; without difference. - adverb In the same manner, form, or degree; in common;
equally .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the same or similar characteristics
- adverb equally
- adverb in a like manner
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nor is the failure of the pursuit wholly to be ascribed to the familiar fact that to Caucasian eyes all Chinamen look alike, but rather to their acting alike, in a body, to defeat discovery at any cost.
IX. Chinatown 1890
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Thanks to this many-sided usage, together with its religious colouring (“the church called by God”) and the possibilities of personification which it offered, the conception and the term alike rapidly came to the front.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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I realized that one of the ways we can truly understand the agony and several abuses on the Vagina by men and women alike is to see through the eyes of a Vagina.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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But since we are tallying “extermination/expulsion of subhuman populations”, one group that somehow that always ignored by so many ‘loving, compassionate’Zoinest Christians and Zionists alike is the Christians of Palestine whose luck was not much better than the Muslim of Palestine either.
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I realized that one of the ways we can truly understand the agony and several abuses on the Vagina by men and women alike is to see through the eyes of a Vagina.
Interview Thursday. Our 4th Male Guest: "I love to question things" - Unconventional Dammy 2009
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I think the best way for Jews and Arabs alike, is through a cooperative dismantling of the Apartheid system.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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Thus America has responded to the enormous challenges the economy faces in the short-term and long-term alike with a complete failure of vision and verve.
Andrei Cherny: Individual Age Economics Andrei Cherny 2011
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A big attraction for Mexican and foreign tourists alike is the usually benign weather, at an elevation of 1,245 feet, which in the winter offers cool evenings and pleasant days.
Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm 2009
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I was with the president of a Penn State campus in China, his closest celebrity look-alike is Bill Cosby, when we were in tourist areas people would pull on him in the exact same way they do on the characters in Disneyworld.
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A great new item, sure to please comics fans and collectors alike is the Mignola-inspired, Hellboy figure packaged with a new hardcover digest-size edition of Seed of Destruction that features an all-new cover by Mike Mignola!
Dark Horse Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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