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RESEMBLANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("resemblance" is a kind of...):
alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resemblance"):
mutual resemblance (symmetrical resemblance)
affinity (inherent resemblance between persons or things)
Derivation:
resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)
Context examples:
This bore some resemblance to incipient rigour, and was accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Could the event of the disclosure bear an equal resemblance!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Keeshonden are compact little animals with a strong resemblance to its ancestor the Samoyed, with oblique chestnut eyes, and erect triangular ears.
(Keeshond, NCI Thesaurus)
The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Its mode of action is not fully understood, but some of its actions resemble those of PHENYTOIN; although there is little chemical resemblance between the two compounds, their three-dimensional structure is similar.
(Carbamazepine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A term used to describe cancer cells that divide rapidly and have little or no resemblance to normal cells.
(Anaplastic, NCI Dictionary)
In this reconstructed animal of a dead world there was certainly a very great resemblance to the sketch of the unknown artist.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These common structural domains, so-named for their resemblance to Danish pastries known as kringlers, play a role in binding membranes, proteins, and phospholipids as well as in regulating proteolysis.
(Kringle Domain, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
