单词 | the like |
释义 | > as lemmasthe like b. Something of the same kind as that previously mentioned or implied. Usually with determiner: in early use esp. other; in modern English only in the like (most commonly and the like at sense 2d). Formerly also with to (cf. like adj. 1a).Formerly, esp. in early modern English (see, e.g., quots. 1626, 1717), approaching a pronoun in use; cf. same pron., and see also sense 2e. Now frequently in negative, interrogative, or conditional contexts, often distinguished from sense 3a only by the absence of a possessive; cf., e.g., quot. 1978 and quot. 1958 at sense 3a(a); both constructions are common in Irish English. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else swilkc1175 anlike1340 liking1340 likeningc1350 semblancec1374 resemblancea1393 likenessa1400 semblablec1400 similitudinary?a1425 like1440 assemblable?1530 a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530 resembler1570 fellowa1616 remonstrance1640 simile1743 ditto1776 something of the sort1839 that or this sort of thing1848 assimilate1935 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 213 Grypynge wythe þe hande, or oþer lyke [?a1475 Winch. lyk], constrictio. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 58 (MED) Vngula..bigynneþ gynneþ bi þe nose and goiþ ouer þe yȝe til þat he haue keuerid al þe yȝe and knottis þat ben in þe yȝe and oþere lijk. 1495 Accedence (de Worde) sig. Bivv An Interiection..betokeneth passion of a mannys soule with an vnperfyte voyce..as, Hate, hey, fy, alas,..and other lyke. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. 3946 To se þe qwik þe ded dispoile..Þe lik it is..A gentil man to reiff a prest. a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 8 The whole effect of Natures plaint, When she had lost the perfit mold, The like to whom she could not paint. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 345v Sum doo wysshe he had doonne the lyke by theyrs. 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Hiiv The verie like in England in the riuer of Thamys. 1572 W. Malim in tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta Ded. sig. Aüv Had not Q. Curtius, or some other like..reviued the remembraunce of him. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. iv. 21 The like to this may be accounted of the continuall fire burning in the mountaine of Ætna. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 30 Macb. Good repose the while! Banq. Thankes, Sir: the like to you! View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 66 Did you euer heare the like ? View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 30 in Sylua Syluarum His Vnder Garments were the like that we saw him weare in the Chariott. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 84 Syrups, electuaries, pills, Loches, Troshiscks and other like. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §87. 467/1 Henry the seventh..having composed matters in Germany..hastened to do the like in Italy. 1717 I. Newton Let. May in Corr. (1976) VI. 391 A Clerk for seeing the moneys assayed & weighed & entring the proceedings in books. Another Clerk..for doing the like in behalf of the King. 1732 A. Pope True Narr. what passed in London in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. 270 The like might be observ'd in all sorts of Ministers, though not of the Church of England. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. i. 1242 The drops were such as no experienced seaman on board had seen the like. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus ii. 31 She never can commit the like again. 1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 35 It is confessed that Hawkins and Cobham were meant to be buccaneers, and it is absurd to deny the like of Stucley. 1978 T. Kelly Sweeney Todd i. i. 9 Two pairs of new sox every month. Did you ever hear the like? 2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 30 Once the rush to get away started, you never saw the like. the like ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction with respect to that of another inclination?a1560 the like1641 the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > those of like character the like1641 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. ii. 49 The latter two not being able to withstand the power of blood, nor the first the like of friendship [It. contrastare..all' amiciçia]. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 145 He had changed his love affections into the like of Friendship, or rather of obsequiousness. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 214 His death was accompanied by the like of Orange. a1683 P. Warwick Mem. Reign Charles I (1701) 106 By this disbanding of the Emperor's forces, and the like of the King of Denmark's,..the King of Sweden got opportunity to raise a considerable army of veteran soldiers. < as lemmas |
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