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LOOK LIKE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bear a physical resemblance to
Example:
She looks like her mother
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "look like" is one way to...):
resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
I never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection, or possibly give the least offence, even to those who are most ready to take it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
First we opened the shutters of the window which looked out across a narrow stone-flagged yard at the blank face of a stable, pointed to look like the front of a miniature house.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Mercy!” she cried. “And what do I look like, pray?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Most pharyngeal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas (cancer that begins in thin, flat cells that look like fish scales).
(Pharyngeal cancer, NCI Dictionary)
There is a lot of speculation over whether Pluto will look like Triton, and how well they'll match up.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
Made up of cells that look like fibers when viewed under a microscope.
(Pilocytic, NCI Dictionary)
Do I look like a man before the mast?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“This does not look like use,” observed the lawyer.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Tell me about him. What does he look like?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a technique to turn proteins into never-ending patterns that look like flowers, trees or snowflakes.
(New technique helps engineer water filters, human tissues, National Science Foundation)
