like
/laɪ̯k/ preposition A1- Similar to, reminiscent of. · Folk like that I just can’t brook.· I’m very like my father.
- Typical of. · It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.
- Approximating. · Popcorn costs something like 10 dollars at the movies.
- In the manner of, similarly to. · He doesn't act like a president.
- Such as; including. · It's for websites like Wikipedia.
- As if there would be. · It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
- Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something. · I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like? –He's intelligent and handsome.· What’s the weather like in Ürümqi today?
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves.
To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
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