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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resemblance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a family resemblance (=when members of the same family look like each other)
▪ There's a strong family resemblance between all the sisters.
superficial resemblance/similarity
▪ Despite their superficial similarities, the two novels are, in fact, very different.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ Indeed, the Bate Collection's instrument displays an astonishingly close resemblance to it.
▪ Typically, hardly anyone noticed: but then no one ever watched Crossroads for its close resemblance to real life.
little
▪ For instance, Matisse and Picasso's nudes often bear little resemblance to the sitter.
▪ By age 7, there is little resemblance.
▪ But such autopsies, like war games, often bear little resemblance to actual war.
▪ This number bore little resemblance to what we actually had in the field.
▪ She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.
▪ A florid, solid woman, Zaiga bore little resemblance to the lithe, romantic girl her parents had lost.
▪ By age 7, there is little resemblance. not yet fully logical; it is prelogical.
passing
▪ And Charlie, as her lover, bears more than a passing resemblance to yesterday's hero, James Dean.
physical
▪ For apart from being equipped with eyes, head and body, dolphins and whales bear little outward physical resemblance to ourselves.
▪ It came to him that Smitty, in some respects, bore a physical resemblance to Ken Grimes.
▪ Huxley's Man's Place in Nature of 1863 had stressed the physical resemblances between humans and apes.
▪ References to Charles's physical resemblance to his grandfather and namesake can be taken seriously.
▪ This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace.
▪ The physical resemblance had struck him at once.
remarkable
▪ It bears a remarkable resemblance to the kind of natural time machine postulated by Frank Tipler, of the University of Texas.
▪ The experiences were interpreted quite differently, even though they produced remarkable resemblances in character.
slight
▪ And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba, too.
striking
▪ Such labels bear a striking resemblance to advertising bill boards.
▪ Although in profile and painted, rather than in relief, it bears a striking resemblance to the Alletio sherd from Corbridge.
▪ They bear a striking resemblance to Koquillion.
▪ And yet this type of ambiguity bears a striking resemblance to the scope ambiguities described above.
▪ He was always impressed by the striking resemblance between his Uncle Julian and his father.
▪ Chester's Gateway Theatre is looking for a mild-mannered all round good-egg who bears a striking resemblance to the former Everton striker.
▪ Jane Russell bore a striking resemblance to Sweetheart.
▪ The Babylonian literature, however, affords some striking resemblances.
strong
▪ She bore a very strong resemblance to Vera Norman!
▪ The wart itself bears a strong resemblance to the creature as a whole except just at the point of attachment.
▪ In both outward profile and interior decor the yacht bears a very strong resemblance to her smaller sister.
▪ He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother, although she looked the elder by some years.
▪ It would account for the strong resemblance.
▪ Fewer than 50 are used outside advertising - and most of these bear strong resemblances to each other.
▪ Listening circles were set up which bear a strong resemblance to those used for today's Open University programmes.
▪ Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
superficial
▪ Genesis 1 has often been compared with the Babylonian account of creation to which it bears a superficial resemblance.
▪ But such arrangements bear only a superficial resemblance to classic design.
▪ The administration of Ponthieu bore some superficial resemblances to that of Aquitaine.
uncanny
▪ He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
▪ The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
▪ One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.
▪ Stack saw an uncanny resemblance to his fictional Josh.
▪ In the multi-tracked recording Mr Jarvis plays 99 roles, many of which bear an uncanny resemblance to well-known actors.
▪ The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.
▪ It was a face in fact which bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Jack Palance.
▪ There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
■ NOUN
family
▪ Their expressions were drained of personality which gave them the family resemblance possessed by a flock of sheep.
▪ Whether or not these family resemblances are accurately identified, this kind of inheritance is now firmly established by experience and science.
▪ A curious family resemblance, a hundred years apart.
▪ All bore a distinct snub-nosed family resemblance to one another.
▪ All four looked white different, yet slightly the same, like distant relatives with an underlying family resemblance.
▪ Even the F40 shows a distinct family resemblance, although the lines were sharpened and simplified.
▪ A few family resemblances were put forward, but it was all guesswork.
▪ The Rover 800-series, to which the new 200 bears a strong family resemblance, was the first.
■ VERB
bear
▪ To some - notably the three Oz editors - it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal.
▪ The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
▪ It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them.
▪ But such autopsies, like war games, often bear little resemblance to actual war.
▪ The oldest Tertiary rocks contained archaic mammals that bore no resemblance to the living families within the class.
▪ The wart itself bears a strong resemblance to the creature as a whole except just at the point of attachment.
▪ He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
▪ These artificial neurons bear only a modest resemblance to the real things.
bore
▪ To some - notably the three Oz editors - it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal.
▪ The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
▪ The chicken in the biryani bore a worrying anatomical resemblance to cat.
▪ This number bore little resemblance to what we actually had in the field.
▪ It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before.
▪ It came to him that Smitty, in some respects, bore a physical resemblance to Ken Grimes.
▪ For Blanche the atmosphere bore no resemblance to the glamorous, fun-filled evening promised in the advertisements.
▪ Citations commonly bore little resemblance to events.
pass
▪ He bore more than a passing resemblance to Horace Greeley.
strike
▪ This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace.
▪ Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bear a resemblance/relation to sb/sth
▪ Bellow supported Roth's early work, and Roth's work was to bear a resemblance to Bellow's.
▪ The medical model is explicit: Teaching bears a resemblance to the practice of medicine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Although the fish have little external resemblance to each other, skeletally they are quite similar.
▪ The Japanese maple leaf bears a striking resemblance to a marijuana leaf.
▪ When he met Francesca's aunt he was instantly struck by the family resemblance.
▪ When you look at this painting and the one by Rembrandt, there is certainly a resemblance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
▪ How I hated these portraits, the photographs, the resemblances!
▪ In its structure and methods, the program bears a strong and not accidental resemblance to the United States Peace Corps.
▪ The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.
▪ The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations and other officials noted the resemblance between the two proposals.
▪ Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master's.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resemblance

Resemblance \Re*sem"blance\ (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance. See Resemble.]

  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

    One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other.
    --Dryden.

  2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.

    These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.
    --Hooker.

  3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resemblance

late 14c., from Anglo-French resemblance (c.1300), from Old French resembler (see resemble) + -ance.

Wiktionary
resemblance

n. 1 The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. 2 That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. 3 A comparison; a simile. 4 Probability; verisimilitude.

WordNet
resemblance

n. similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

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Wikipedia
Resemblance

Resemblance may refer to:

  • Resemblance nominalism
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein's family resemblances
  • In text mining, the degree to which two documents resemble each other, calculated using shingles

Usage examples of "resemblance".

But the triumph of the Koran is more pure and meritorious, as it was not assisted by any visible splendor of worship which might allure the Pagans by some resemblance of idolatry.

In this case, however, it may be strongly suspected that the resemblance is only analogical, owing to the phascolomys having become adapted to habits like those of a Rodent.

And if all peoples, in all climates, chose these same elementary sounds from among the raw material of the language of action, that is because they discerned in them, though in a secondary and reflective manner, a resemblance with the object they designated, or the possibility of applying it to an analogous object.

Lateral resemblances with other languages - similar sounds applied to analogous significations - were noted and listed only in order to confirm the vertical relation of each to these deeply buried, silted over, almost mute values.

It is appropriately named nettle-rash, from its resemblance to the irritation caused by the sting of a nettle.

This unfavorable picture, though not devoid of a faint resemblance, betrays, by its dark coloring and distorted features, the pencil of an enemy.

Those counted worthy shall be accepted, be transfigured into the resemblance of the glorious Redeemer and enter into eternal blessedness in heaven.

The one, dear mother, in which I was playing a certain buttinsky older female relative whom I will not name but who bears an uncanny resemblance to your mother?

The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.

It bore a resemblance to the one that had asked Eddie if Eddie would like his horoscope told, but that was the best you could call ita resemblance.

This coefficient of resemblance between husband and wife in regard to phthisis is about the same as the correlation of resemblance between husband and wife for eye color, stature, longevity, general health, truthfulness, tone of voice, and many other characters.

He stopped before leaving to study the picture closely, marvelling at its resemblance to Charles and memorising every minute detail of the cryptical, colourless face, even down to a slight scar or pit in the smooth brow above the right eye.

By its intimate resemblances to the judgment of the true and the beautiful, it shows us the secret affinities of morality, metaphysics, and aesthetics.

Yet, even with our advances in technology and methodology, even with the incomparably greater manuscript resources at our disposal, our Greek texts of today bear an uncanny resemblance to the Greek text of Westcott and Hort.

To his mind the depth of her despondency was the measure of her power to realize her imperfection, for he now supposed her depression was caused immediately by the fact that she had been so harshly misjudged, but in the main because of her resemblance to the flower he had tossed away and which he now remembered, with deep satisfaction, was in his note-book, ready to aid in the reassuring and encouraging work upon which he was eager to enter.