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  • I (and Dictionary. com) think of "- oid" as indicating "like"; an android is like a man, rather than a tidbit of a man!

    A View: The Science=Atheism Meme 2007

  • This is a clever variation on Archilochus's line poll' oid' alopex, all' echinos hen mega 'The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog only one.

    languagehat.com: GOPNIK'S POINT. 2004

  • The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • "- oid" in a blaze of glory and maybe even replace it with a brand new "- ite."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1984

  • On the surface his approach is scientific and slightly Dawkins-oid: in Cracked he briskly locates the source of addiction in “a tiny region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens,” and suggests that the emotional dissociation of the trauma victim is “an evolutionary remnant of the risky strategy of feigning death.”

    Retching With the Stars 2009

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  • suffix meaning "similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else".

    April 27, 2009

  • i remember being under the assumption that this was just a cheap sci-fi term. of course i know better now, but...

    April 27, 2009