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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resemble
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closely resembles
▪ a creature that closely resembles a red monkey
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ W says the material removes resonance and standing waves, reproducing music that more closely resembles the original.
▪ It operates through receptors whose molecular and physiological properties closely resemble the calcium-mobilizing ryanodine receptors of muscle.
▪ Emersed and submersed plants closely resemble each other.
▪ Flaccid, deeply dissected, submerged foliage closely resembling an out-stretched bird's foot.
▪ It closely resembles E. macrophyllus and like the latter has no pellucid markings in the leaf blades.
▪ Spinelets are confined to the radial shields in G. arcticus and more closely resemble large granules.
▪ Patients who have recurrent attacks of gouty arthritis may develop features closely resembling rheumatoid arthritis.
most
▪ It is in the features of this sociable disposition rather than in societal structure that the chimpanzee most resembles man.
▪ At daybreak or dusk, the pyramids most resemble the limestone monuments seen by the old explorers.
▪ BHowever, it is a president Clinton almost never mentions who he resembles most closely -- Lyndon B.. Johnson.
▪ But the player who most resembled the Becker of old was 31st-ranked Costa.
▪ Britain's leading wave-jumping event, in its fourth year, is staged in Tiree because the swells most resemble Hawaii's.
▪ This impressive-looking pocket modem most resembles a Walkman.
much
▪ Whales and hippos may not much resemble each other nowadays, but retain some hints of kinship.
▪ It resembled much more one of the helmet faces painted on the skulls in the rack behind me.
often
▪ Feminist extensions of conventional psychological methodology often resemble more explicitly oppositional programmes for social scientific method.
▪ Republican conference meetings, the closed-doors strategy sessions, have often resembled revival meetings, said Rep.
remotely
▪ It should not be imagined, however, that the newborn Earth remotely resembled the world in which we live today.
▪ In the 1990s alone, some 2 million anglers have fished here without hooking anything even remotely resembling this record fish.
▪ I never want to go through anything even remotely resembling our marriage ever again.
▪ There is no human society that remotely resembles this particular pattern.
▪ Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light.
somewhat
▪ This is an imposing structure, somewhat resembling in its frontage on two streets the keep of a Norman castle.
▪ These are extremely small, single-cell structures that somewhat resemble bacteria on Earth.
▪ Species somewhat resembling that shown are numerous in the Tertiary marine formations, and similar species live today in sandy sea bottoms.
▪ It is no coincidence that combat soldiers, particularly paratroops, wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard's spotted coat.
■ NOUN
form
▪ It should eventually be in a form which resembles the way in which the research will be presented.
▪ Musical jades were angular in form, resembling carpenters' squares.
pattern
▪ Not surprisingly these force patterns resemble the pattern of magnetic field lines across the aperture of a quadrupole magnet.
▪ The Mormon settlement pattern resembled that of earlier Asiatic societies in that each community was engaged in basically the same activities.
▪ Flight patterns resemble Peregrine and Hobby.
▪ One minute after mixing this footprint is no longer evident and the pattern resembles that in the control.
respect
▪ They will in this respect resemble our own rules of etiquette.
▪ In this respect at least, Mozart resembles his comparably productive contemporary Joseph Haydn.
▪ A new course in a number of respects resembles a research or development project.
▪ It inevitably strikes the reader of Out that the main character enters periodically into what in many respects resembles schizophrenia.
▪ In this respect the gorilla resembles man more than the chimpanzee.
species
▪ Distantly related species may come to resemble one another closely.
▪ Such is the method of camouflage in which a species evolves to resemble its background.
▪ A few species generally resembling this one occur in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks.
ways
▪ But man is, in general, sexually dimorphic in ways which do not resemble his ape cousins.
▪ But the route she took to Washington in many ways resembles the one traveled by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
■ VERB
begin
▪ One straightened stream begins to resemble another.
▪ Salomon Brothers began to resemble the rest of Wall Street.
▪ Six weeks later, most of its organs are present and its outward appearance begins to resemble that of a baby.
▪ The hall had suddenly begun to resemble a police station.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged.
▪ In this sense, consciousness resembles breathing, digestion, and so on.
▪ Starkly primeval, it resembles the head of a giant gorilla!
▪ The output was a bar graph to show how much the new input resembled each of the ten people.
▪ The philosopher Scott Buchanan once observed in conversation that science resembles theater.
▪ To the outsider the movements of a kata resemble a dance routine.
▪ True believers say the effort resembles cutting-edge, private-sector management at its best.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resemble

Resemble \Re*sem"ble\ (r?-z?m"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resembled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Resembling (-bl?ng).] [F. ressembler; pref. re- re- + sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. similis like, similar. See Similar.]

  1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

    We will resemble you in that.
    --Shak.

  2. To liken; to compare; to represent as like. [Obs.]

    The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright.
    --Spenser.

  3. To counterfeit; to imitate. [Obs.] ``They can so well resemble man's speech.''
    --Holland.

  4. To cause to imitate or be like. [R.]
    --H. Bushnell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resemble

mid-14c., from Old French resembler "belike" (12c., Modern French ressemble), from re-, intensive prefix, + sembler "to appear, to seem, be like," from Latin simulare "to copy" (see similar (adj.)). Related: Resembled; resembling.

Wiktionary
resemble

vb. (context transitive English) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

WordNet
resemble

v. appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to; "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work"

Usage examples of "resemble".

Ramses had graduated to long trousers that yearthe sudden elongation of his lower limbs having made that decision advisable on aesthetic if no other groundsand with his curly hair brushed into a rampant crest, he resembled a critical stork.

Affront with the other local species, and, to their eternal credit, the Padressahl had been doggedly endeavouring to nudge the Affront into something remotely resembling decent behaviour for more centuries than they cared to remember or admit.

As more and more antenna blades were stuck to its skin, the once-graceful U-2 was beginning to resemble a porcupine.

Cutaneous anthrax begins as an itchy bump that resembles an insect bite.

He resembled Othello not only in his taste for antres vast and deserts idle but in his tendency, being wrought, to become perplexed in the extreme.

No matter how red the Neon lights glow on Main Street, they cannot rival the horrid hellfire in the chapel of the Antinomians, or the True New Reformed Tabernacle of the Penitent Saints of the Assembly of God, or in most of the brick and gray stone Baptist and Methodist churches that resemble railroad depots of 1890, and he that knows not that encouraging fact has never been west or south of Blawenburg.

Walking through a maze of stacked magazines and expired telephone books, she headed toward the mantel, where she saw a statue of Buddha resembling Baboo the Genie wearing balloony, CP Shades culottes.

Above the eyes, the head of a basto resembles the American bison, having the same short powerful horns and the thick hair upon its poll and forehead.

On seeing her, the men released Beausire, and gave a cry of exultation, for they recognized her immediately who resembled the Queen of France so strongly.

Unknown to him, his manner and look resembled Nathan Bedlam more and more.

While Dez thought Blair resembled him slightly, he now knew Blaise favored her mother and he wished he had been smart enough to realize that the afternoon they had met.

Dryad nor anything resembling the Dryad except in the possession of two masts, but a genuine flyer, long and narrow, with a very fine entry, towering masts and a bowsprit of extraordinary length with a triple dolphin-striker, the Bonhomme Richard, that well-known blockade-runner.

Before us opened a hall of considerable size, consisting of three distinct vaults, defined by two rows of pillars, slender shafts resembling tall branchless trees, the capital of each being formed by a branching head like that of the palm.

Their faces resembled jackals or perhaps hyenas, and they wore scraps of armor and brandished large, mannish weapons.

He wore a brimless, conical white hat which, blending into the white of his forehead, would have made him rather resemble a bald pinhead, except that the cap was jauntily tilted just a bit to one side.