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UK
/lˈaɪk/
]
[ US /ˈɫaɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪk/ ]
VERB
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prefer or wish to do something
Would you like to come along to the movies?
Do you care to try this dish? -
be fond of
I like my nephews -
feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard
How did you like the President's speech last night? -
find enjoyable or agreeable
She likes to read Russian novels
I like jogging -
want to have
I'd like a beer now!
ADJECTIVE
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resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
a limited circle of like minds
a dreamlike quality
doglike devotion
as like as two peas in a pod
members of the cat family have like dispositions
suits of like design -
equal in amount or value
gave one six blows and the other a like number
like amounts
the same amount
equivalent amounts
the same number -
conforming in every respect
the like period of the preceding year
boxes with corresponding dimensions -
having the same or similar characteristics
friends are generally alike in background and taste
they looked utterly alike
all politicians are alike
NOUN
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a kind of person
We'll not see his like again
I can't tolerate people of his ilk -
a similar kind
we don't want the likes of you around here
dogs, foxes, and the like
How To Use like In A Sentence
- He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
- I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
