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  • 41like — {{11}}like (adj.) having the same characteristics or qualities (as another), Middle English shortening of O.E. gelic like, similar, from P.Gmc. *galika having the same form, lit. with a corresponding body (Cf. O.S. gilik, Du. gelijk, Ger. gleich …

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  • 42like, as —    Problems often arise in choosing between like and as. Here are two examples, both from the New York Times and both wrong: Advertising agencies may appear as [make it like] homespun enterprises to the American public ; On the surface it looks… …

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  • 43like, as —    Problems often arise in choosing between like and as. Here are two examples, both from the New York Times and both wrong: Advertising agencies may appear as [make it like] homespun enterprises to the American public ; On the surface it looks… …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 44like — In recent years, like has been used so increasingly for as or as if that this usage is now accepted as popular or informal in constructions formerly considered nonstandard. When like precedes a noun that is not followed by a verb, its use is… …

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  • 45like — noun see like will to like like breeds like adjective see like father, like son like master, like man like mother, like daughter like people, like priest verb see …

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  • 46Like Me — Infobox Single Name = Like Me Artist = Girlicious featuring Jazze Pha Album = Girlicious Released = flagicon|US flagicon|Canada April 22, 2008flagicon|India September 19, 2008 Format = Digital download, Radio and CD Recorded = 2008 Genre = Dance… …

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  • 47like — I Australian Slang 1. (used after clause to weaken the force a direct statement) so to speak; as it were; sort of; kind of: It was a bit tough, like; they ve gone bad like ; Australian Slang 2. more recently used frequently interspersed… …

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  • 48like — I adj 1. similar, homologous, much the same, pretty much the same, more or less the same, something like, not unlike; comparable, analogous, parallel, correspondent, corresponding, resembling, following; near, close, approximating, same but… …

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  • 49like — like1 preposition 1》 similar to.     ↘in the manner of.     ↘in a way appropriate to.     ↘characteristic of.     ↘used to ask about someone s or something s characteristics. 2》 in this manner. 3》 such as. conjunction informal 1》 in the same way… …

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  • 50like — verb ADVERB ▪ enormously (esp. BrE), especially, genuinely, a lot, particularly, really, truly, very much ▪ I liked him enormously and was sorry when he left …

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