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单词 resemblance
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Definition of resemblance in English:

resemblance

noun rɪˈzɛmbl(ə)nsrəˈzɛmbləns
mass noun
  • 1The state of resembling or being alike.

    they bear some resemblance to Italian figurines
    count noun there was a close resemblance between herself and Anne
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even more so, the vitreous resemblance to glass frames mutely enhances the colour of the wall behind it.
    • If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace.
    • We are fortunate that the real world bears little resemblance to this.
    • In order for this resemblance to be in any way complete, man had to be created with free will.
    • It is unlikely they bear any resemblance to Frankenstein's creation.
    • In May, planning chiefs ordered work to stop because the building bore little resemblance to the approved plans.
    • All the characters in it are invented, none bears any resemblance to anyone living or dead.
    • The game no longer bears much resemblance to the sport it once was.
    • Okarito's few houses and two streets bear little resemblance to the goldrush town of a century and a half ago.
    • Now I see this written about in a newspaper on a weekly basis and I can only tell you that it has no resemblance to fact.
    • It was lovely to see her; there's a definite family resemblance between her and Mum.
    • It sounds nothing like these, nor does it bear any resemblance to a dance number in any way.
    • But the past has shown that men come up with solutions that bear no resemblance to reality.
    • It tasted chemical and bore no resemblance whatsoever to Béarnaise.
    • As the creation of the welfare state was high on the agenda of all parties, manifestos bore close resemblance on this point.
    • The papers they handed in at the end of the course bore little resemblance to what they produced at the beginning.
    • This response obviously bears no resemblance to the true answer.
    • The authority said the building bore little resemblance to the plans it had passed and ordered work to stop last May.
    • It explores many of the same themes but in a style which bears little resemblance to its predecessor.
    • I had stared at my uncle to see if I could notice any resemblance between him and any of the men in the picture.
    1. 1.1count noun A way in which two or more things are alike.
      the physical resemblances between humans and apes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Those physical resemblances, and many other attributes, would surely be traceable to the genes within each species.
      • I suppose that on maybe two or three tracks, at the beginning and the end of the album, there are faint stylistic resemblances, but the emotion and the intent seem to me to come from somewhere else entirely.
      • And if physical resemblances were undeniable, that made it more important to defend the less tangible ground of mentation or behavior.
      • But the resemblances cannot be stretched too far.
      • One searches the family portraits for resemblances and finds hardly a trace.
      • Any and all resemblances to other stories are purely coincidental.
      • All the more striking, then, are the resemblances between their early experiences, in many respects uncannily close.
      • The patterns repeat themselves like family resemblances, the living seeing echoes of their own faces in old photographs.
      • All characters belong to my mind, the plot belongs to me… any resemblances are entirely and purely coincidental.
      • Molecular data enable workers to determine relationships with greater certainty than using physical resemblances alone.
      • Family resemblances can be studied at length between reunions, and stories heard and reheard.
      • There are a few resemblances, but one cannot make a full parallel between the two.
      • He carried a notebook in which he jotted notes or sketches of anything which caught his interest - an unusual design for a dovecote, or the resemblances between eddying water and braided hair.
      • The soundtracks extend the analogy by their resemblances to early sound recordings.
      • The resemblances, after all, were vivid, and far from accidental.
      • ‘I may say that the people here look like themselves and have no resemblances to another nation,’ he said.
      • We have a lot of expressions to acknowledge the resemblances present within families.
      • It has lately been the fashion to focus the mind entirely on these mild and subordinate resemblances and to forget the main fact altogether.
      • No two situations will be exactly alike, but there will be resemblances.
      • But although the surface similarities are remarkable, the deeper resemblances seem to flow from the primal nature of boxing.
      Synonyms
      similarity, likeness, alikeness, similitude
      correspondence, congruity, congruence, coincidence, concurrence, conformity, agreement, equivalence
      comparability, comparableness, comparison, parallelism, parity, analogy, affinity, closeness, nearness
      sameness, identicalness, uniformity
      archaic semblance

Derivatives

  • resemblant

  • adjective
    • He then turns to icons (where a ‘real metaphor is specified by powerful materials or resemblant elements’) and effigies; and he uses those ideas to open a meditation on iconoclasm, masks, theater, character, and comedy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His reason for placing identity in the second group is that objects which are perfectly resemblant may still be numerically different if they do not coincide in both space and time.
      • They are designed in order to get the most resemblant analogue audio quality and all of them are engineered, mounted and fully tested in our factory.
      • We found a significant preference for self-resemblant children in women, but not in men.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from the verb resembler (see resemble).

 
 

Definition of resemblance in US English:

resemblance

nounrəˈzemblənsrəˈzɛmbləns
  • 1The state of resembling or being alike.

    they bear some resemblance to Italian figurines
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the past has shown that men come up with solutions that bear no resemblance to reality.
    • This response obviously bears no resemblance to the true answer.
    • The papers they handed in at the end of the course bore little resemblance to what they produced at the beginning.
    • All the characters in it are invented, none bears any resemblance to anyone living or dead.
    • In order for this resemblance to be in any way complete, man had to be created with free will.
    • It sounds nothing like these, nor does it bear any resemblance to a dance number in any way.
    • If the result bears little musical resemblance to the original, it does capture the same hedonistic menace.
    • It explores many of the same themes but in a style which bears little resemblance to its predecessor.
    • In May, planning chiefs ordered work to stop because the building bore little resemblance to the approved plans.
    • It is unlikely they bear any resemblance to Frankenstein's creation.
    • It was lovely to see her; there's a definite family resemblance between her and Mum.
    • Okarito's few houses and two streets bear little resemblance to the goldrush town of a century and a half ago.
    • The game no longer bears much resemblance to the sport it once was.
    • It tasted chemical and bore no resemblance whatsoever to Béarnaise.
    • As the creation of the welfare state was high on the agenda of all parties, manifestos bore close resemblance on this point.
    • Now I see this written about in a newspaper on a weekly basis and I can only tell you that it has no resemblance to fact.
    • The authority said the building bore little resemblance to the plans it had passed and ordered work to stop last May.
    • Even more so, the vitreous resemblance to glass frames mutely enhances the colour of the wall behind it.
    • We are fortunate that the real world bears little resemblance to this.
    • I had stared at my uncle to see if I could notice any resemblance between him and any of the men in the picture.
    1. 1.1 A way in which two or more things are alike.
      the physical resemblances between humans and apes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘I may say that the people here look like themselves and have no resemblances to another nation,’ he said.
      • But the resemblances cannot be stretched too far.
      • He carried a notebook in which he jotted notes or sketches of anything which caught his interest - an unusual design for a dovecote, or the resemblances between eddying water and braided hair.
      • There are a few resemblances, but one cannot make a full parallel between the two.
      • The resemblances, after all, were vivid, and far from accidental.
      • And if physical resemblances were undeniable, that made it more important to defend the less tangible ground of mentation or behavior.
      • All the more striking, then, are the resemblances between their early experiences, in many respects uncannily close.
      • All characters belong to my mind, the plot belongs to me… any resemblances are entirely and purely coincidental.
      • Family resemblances can be studied at length between reunions, and stories heard and reheard.
      • But although the surface similarities are remarkable, the deeper resemblances seem to flow from the primal nature of boxing.
      • The soundtracks extend the analogy by their resemblances to early sound recordings.
      • We have a lot of expressions to acknowledge the resemblances present within families.
      • Those physical resemblances, and many other attributes, would surely be traceable to the genes within each species.
      • One searches the family portraits for resemblances and finds hardly a trace.
      • It has lately been the fashion to focus the mind entirely on these mild and subordinate resemblances and to forget the main fact altogether.
      • The patterns repeat themselves like family resemblances, the living seeing echoes of their own faces in old photographs.
      • Any and all resemblances to other stories are purely coincidental.
      • No two situations will be exactly alike, but there will be resemblances.
      • I suppose that on maybe two or three tracks, at the beginning and the end of the album, there are faint stylistic resemblances, but the emotion and the intent seem to me to come from somewhere else entirely.
      • Molecular data enable workers to determine relationships with greater certainty than using physical resemblances alone.
      Synonyms
      similarity, likeness, alikeness, similitude

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from the verb resembler (see resemble).

 
 
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