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51like mother, like daughter — The female equivalent of like father, like son. EZEKIEL xvi. 44 (AV) Every one..shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 18857 O suilk [such] a moder, wel slik [such] a child …
52like — 1. verb /laɪk/ a) To please. And yf hit lyke yow I wille speke with hem by cause I am a knyghte of kynge Arthurs [...]. b) To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. His countenance likes me not. Syn …
53like — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, adulate, affection, after this fashion, agape, agnate, aim at, akin, alike, all one, all the same, allied, ally, along these lines, alter …
54like — like1 [ laık ] function word *** Like can be used in the following ways: as a preposition (followed by a noun): He looks like his father. as a conjunction (connecting two clauses): She looked like she was about to cry. as an adverb: I said, like …
55like — 1 /laIk/ preposition 1 similar in some way to something else: My mother has a car like yours. | He crawled out of the hut on his belly, like a snake. | very like: He s very like his brother. | look/sound/feel/taste/seem like: The building looked… …
56like — I UK [laɪk] / US adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition *** Summary: Like can be used in the following ways: as a preposition (followed by a noun): He looks like his father. as a conjunction (connecting two clauses): She looked like she was… …
57Like — In the English language, the word like has a very flexible range of uses. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection, and quotative. Word history As a preposition or adjective, it… …
58Like-kind exchange — A like kind exchange is a United States tax deferred exchange that allows for the disposal of an asset and the acquisition of another similar asset without generating a tax liability from the sale of the first asset. A like kind exchange can… …
59like — English has a diverse group of words spelled like, but they all come ultimately from the same source. This was prehistoric Germanic *līkam ‘appearance, form, body’ (source also of the lych of English lych gate [15], which originally signified the …
60such — [[t]sʌ̱tʃ[/t]] ♦ (When such is used as a predeterminer, it is followed by a and a count noun in the singular. When it is used as a determiner, it is followed by a count noun in the plural or by an uncount noun.) 1) DET: DET n, DET n as pron You… …
