Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of resembling, especially similarity in appearance or in external or superficial details.
- noun Something that resembles another; a likeness or semblance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of resembling or being like; likeness; similarity either of external form or of qualities.
- noun Something similar; a similitude; a point or detail of likeness; a representation; an image; semblance.
- noun Likelihood; probability.
- noun A simile.
- noun Look; regard; show of affection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
- noun That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- noun obsolete A comparison; a simile.
- noun obsolete Probability; verisimilitude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of resembling;
likeness ;similitude ;similarity . - noun That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- noun A
comparison ; asimile . - noun Probability; verisimilitude.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
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Examples
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Darwinian theory, the resemblance must have come about gradually, and in its beginnings it cannot have profited the mimic _as a resemblance_.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Now the nature of the material evidence is plainly this, that the resemblance of camels to deer, oxen, etc., in chewing the cud, justifies us in believing that they have a further resemblance in feeding on herbs; in other words, we assume that _resemblance is a ground of inference_.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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But a word resemblance is still broken if any one letter in the word differs.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But a word resemblance is still broken if any one letter in the word differs.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But the resemblance is there, you have to admit that.
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Theodore Brandeis 'roseleaf skin, and over, and above all these, weaving in and out through the whole, an expression or cast -- a vague, undefinable thing which we call a resemblance -- that could only have come from the woman of the picture, Theodore Brandeis' wife, Olga.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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You know, Lucy, you have often told me I should certainly have been in love with you if I had not been your brother: this resemblance is a proof you were right.
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And even there the resemblance is only slight, since a trustee in the U.S. actually does control the trust.
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And even there the resemblance is only slight, since a trustee in the U.S. actually does control the trust.
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I am a woman of both “black” (Ugandan) and “white” (Norwegian) heritage, but my physical resemblance is refered to as black.
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