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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alike
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
exactly
▪ No two people smell exactly alike - though there are similarities between races.
▪ No two street cracks, like the whorls of fingerprints, are exactly alike.
▪ It is certainly true that no two zebras are exactly alike in the details of their black and white lines.
▪ Nevertheless, probably no two were exactly alike.
▪ No two human beings are exactly alike and no two cases will follow the exact pattern.
▪ We are all exactly alike in this respect.
▪ Then there is the fact that two phrases that sound exactly alike can have different meanings depending on their context.
so
▪ The two figures so alike, dark-haired and slender both, dressed in deepest green, were mirror images of each other.
▪ Elsie and Edith Port were so alike that Jennie dosed the wrong one with her cure for all ailments - castor oil.
▪ And why were all the statements so alike?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
share and share alike
▪ The entire estate was bequeathed to the four children, share and share alike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As the personal computer market matured, computer makers have realized that not all PC buyers are alike.
▪ I think my mother and I are very much alike in some ways.
▪ The album is boring - all of their songs sound alike.
▪ The two singers do not sound anything alike.
▪ You lawyers are all alike. You just talk a lot, tell a few lies, and send the bill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Broadly speaking, all these towns looked alike.
▪ Law schools, you see, are more alike than they are different.
▪ The number of mutations increased as the parents became more alike.
▪ You guys with brains are all alike, man.
II.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
look
▪ A case of forcing one set of data into mother's mould to make them look alike?
▪ Unlike other large animal phyla all nematodes look alike except for size - at least to the common man.
▪ I said yes to everything, but to me machines tend to look alike.
▪ You asked if people say we looked alike.
▪ Siblings don't always look alike.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
great minds (think alike)
Great visions are the signs of great minds and there were few greater visions than those of Newton and Einstein.
▪ Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
▪ Some of the confusion would certainly have been lessened if the two great minds had had opportunities to exchange ideas.
▪ That presents no danger if our great minds are in Paris or London or the United States.
▪ The excitement of the intellectual revolution produced some great minds and some important discoveries.
share and share alike
▪ The entire estate was bequeathed to the four children, share and share alike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Politicians and voters alike are too concerned with short-term problems.
▪ The men in the bridal party should dress alike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accommodation is at a premium in hotels and private houses alike.
▪ But the same rates of interest should not necessarily be paid to non-residents and residents alike.
▪ Conditions in the aftermath of the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development in countryside and city alike.
▪ Crocker was one of the largest banks in California, and was respected by investors and rival bankers alike.
▪ Health risks were matters of acceptance for the most part by employers and workers alike.
▪ None the less, consumers and businesses alike are, in the aggregate, deeper in debt than ever before.
▪ Sister ministered to staff and patients alike and was known everywhere as the Lady with the Veil.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alike

Alike \A*like"\ ([.a]*l[imac]k), a. [AS. onl[=i]c, gel[=i]c; pref. [=a] + like.] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.]

The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
--Ps. cxxxix. 12.

Alike

Alike \A*like"\, adv. [AS. gel[=i]ce, onl[=i]ce.] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alike

c.1300, aliche, from Old English gelic and/or onlice "similar," from Proto-Germanic *galikam "associated form" (cognates: Old Frisian gelik, German gleich, Gothic galeiks, Old Norse glikr; see like (adj.)).

Wiktionary
alike

a. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. adv. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.

WordNet
alike
  1. adv. equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms" [syn: likewise]

  2. in a like manner; "they walk alike"

alike

adj. having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste" [syn: alike(p), similar, like] [ant: unalike]

Wikipedia
Alike

Alike or Aalike ( Tulu - ಅಳಿಕೆ) is a village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. There is a public health centre run by the government of Karnataka. The languages spoken are Tulu, Kannada, Beary, Urdu, and Konkani.

One of the most famous educational institutions of Karnataka is in this village. Alike is known for Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Educational Institutions. Sru Sathya Sai Loka Seva trust which is basically rooted in this village runs schools and colleges across three campuses namely Sathya Sai Vihar, Sharadha Vihar and Vani Vihar. There are separate schools for boys and girls.Boys have a unique residential system where they are provided with both worldly and moral Education. Special emphasis is given to moral education in these institutions. The quality education have made them known throughout the state of Karnataka. Totally around 1500 students are availing education at Alike among which more than 800 students are staying in the campuses.

Usage examples of "alike".

History was reduced to dry and confused abridgments, alike destitute of amusement and instruction.

The confirmation of that truth becomes irresistible when we see how reason and conscience, with delighted avidity, seize upon its adaptedness alike to the brightest features and the darkest defects of the present life, whose imperfect symmetries and segments are harmoniously filled out by the adjusting complement of a future state.

Such a conception, appearing in a rude state of culture, before the lines between science, religion, and poetry had been sharply drawn, recommending itself alike by its simplicity and by its adaptedness to gratify curiosity and speculation in the formation of a thousand quaint and engaging hypotheses, would seem plausible, would be highly attractive, would very easily secure acceptance as a true doctrine.

Legge, esteemed the two most illustrious patriots of Great Britain, alike distinguished and admired for their unconquerable spirit and untainted integrity.

It came out of nowhere, fed on whispers, and took the innocent and the guilty alike into agonizing darkness.

And then I suppose Om will tell you how to spread the allas to everyone, human and moldie alike.

Of three salts of aluminium, one did not act, a second showed a trace of action, and the third acted slowly and doubtfully, so that their effects are nearly alike.

Where local and foreign milk alike are drawn into a general plan for protecting the interstate commerce in the commodity from the interferences, burdens and obstructions, arising from excessive surplus and the social and sanitary evils of low values, the power of the Congress extends also to the local sales.

Convention, I feel that the dominating purpose inspiring the assembled friends, delegates and visitors alike, should be a two-fold one.

Susan Bates, advancing straight towards Roger with moistened eyes and with a nervous tremor in her voice and body alike.

Those were always remarkably alike, every one seeming to be owned by a widow lady of formidable dimensions and creaking corsets, commanding a staff that consisted of her numerous beefy daughters.

Of the rest of the habitations, a few are stone sheds, but the greater part are huts made of the dry stalks of the fine herb called bou rekabah, in the form of a conical English haystack, and are very snug, impervious alike to rain and sun.

Research was the foundation upon which the Hands of Grace program rested, the armor that would protect it from the brickbats hurled by those who would see in its simple ministry of the heart a threat to their administrative power, the key that would unlock the doors of scientific materialism and allow contemplative musicians unimpeded entry into hospital and hospice alike.

There was one characteristic of the Guaranis in which they differed greatly from most of the Indian tribes in their vicinity, as the Indians of the Chaco and the Pampas, for all historians alike agree that they were most unwarlike.

Marber might have been cheating his artists and clients alike: charging over the odds, paying too little .