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UK
/lˈaɪk/
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[ 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
- He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat. FOLLY
