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单词 sound-alike
释义

sound-aliken.

Etymology: < sound v.1, after look-alike.
A person or thing that closely resembles another (or others) in sound or name. Also attributive or as adj.
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the mind > language > naming > [noun] > namesake one with same name > person or thing with similar name
sound-alike1970
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else > in appearance or sound
lookalike1935
sound-alike1970
lookie-likie1990
1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 31 Oct. 59/1 It is another of those more-of-the-same pieces, like the sound-alikes of another era, written by all those minor contemporary imitators of Haydn and Mozart.
1972 Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Monthly Apr. 142/1 When a pharmacist takes a prescription over the telephone..there is always the possibility that a drug not intended by the prescriber is likely to be dispensed. Such an error could be the result of a ‘sound-alike’ or a ‘read-alike’ drug.
1975 Verbatim May 12/1 The lost r may one day ruin my professional reputation—by converting the word that's meant into an unrelated sound-alike.
1977 Rolling Stone 5 May 66/2 Hire a Pendergrass soundalike—David Ebo.
1979 Logophile 2 v. 10/2 The Encyclopedia of Homonyms..claims to be ‘the only complete comprehensive collection of ‘sound-alike’ words ever published’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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