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resemble

[ri-zem-buhl]

verb (used with object), -bled, -bling.

to be like or similar to.

Archaic. to liken or compare.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English resemblen < Middle French resembler, Old French, equivalent to re- re- + sembler to seem, be like < Latin similāre, derivative of similis like; see similar

Related forms

re·sem·bling·ly, adverb

pre·re·sem·ble, verb, -bled, -bling.

un·re·sem·bling, adjective

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It is said that by some strange quirk of biology, dog owners and their pets come to resemble each other.

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America's suburbs are coming to resemble its city centres.

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It is said that by some strange quirk of biology, dog owners and their pets come to resemble each other.

We're not here to help our students make their minds resemble their laptops, fast and feverish.

America's suburbs are coming to resemble its city centres.

Both have flippers that resemble paddles, which make them powerful and graceful swimmers.

They sympathize best with fates that are either totally fantastic or resemble their own.

Several plants in these woods resemble ginseng,so our task is not easy.

P lants and flowers resemble those of medium-size campanulas.

Though at first glance it may resemble other commuter vehicles, a few key features set it apart.

Chronic gout can often resemble rheumatoid arthritis.

These resemble warts and may be removed by cryotherapy-freezing-using a metal probe cooled by a tank of carbon dioxide.

The creep of regulation is one reason why hedge funds increasingly resemble more traditional investment managers.

It sports a beautiful flower believed to resemble the avian bird of paradise in flight.

In many ways, separation appears to resemble drug withdrawal.

From a distance, the rocks resemble islands, the sand a tranquil sea.

So named because its finely divided leaves resemble a bird's foot.

Newfangled video-game controllers resemble cybernetic fruit bats.

Several other conditions may at some point in their course resemble gout.

However, even cities can resemble small towns with all the pluses and minuses.

In short, the website is coming to resemble television.

Ask students if they are familiar with any dogs that more closely resemble wolves.

These noises resemble the sounds made by hitting two round pebbles together.

And tasty viceroy butterflies are safe from birds because they resemble monarchs, which are unpalatable.

Fragrant flowers in late summer resemble scarlet heads of broccoli.

Some are deeply quirky, designed to resemble a headless dog.

It is often observed that enemies come to resemble each other.

Later she is done up to resemble a remote-controlled snowflake.

Though far beyond the range of human hearing, the calls resemble duets between birds or singing humans, according to the authors.

Nor do the fossils resemble the forms produced by nonmetazoan organisms.

He has a mop of tar-black hair and eyes that resemble large charcoal orbs behind thick lenses.

Fluffy white azaleas and hydrangeas piled in containers resemble snowballs.

The tiny fossils resemble filamentous colonies of cells, but have evaded positive identification.

Some studies argue that dogs can resemble their owners, but the research is debatable.

This, he says, is why the bay's once crystal-clear waters often resemble a pea soup.

Early observations of the fossil show that the threads resemble silk spun by modern spiders.

In fact, their brains closely resemble those of modern reptiles.

The soft-bodied animals, a fraction of an inch long, resemble twigs and gumdrops in shape.

They resemble hyacinths but are taller, with looser flower clusters and fewer, narrower leaves.

Its gill rakers resemble those found in bony fishes.

In some ways, today's new teachers resemble their graying counterparts.

The markets now resemble those nesting chicks that chirrup constantly for their parents to feed them.

Learn why these intriguing animals resemble monkeys but are really related to raccoons.

Many of the symptoms of hypothermia resemble those of a drunken stupor: sleepiness, clumsiness, confusion and even slurred speech.

The rig's perforated red beams resemble a giant segmented insect.

God made plants or their parts resemble the things they were supposed to heal.

But we're still watching you, citizen, thanks to a spy panel cleverly made to resemble a dull and opaque window.

In the insect world, different species can resemble each other, even though they are not the same genetically.

Arguments over currencies, trade and climate policy will resemble a tug-of-war.

For instance, its front limb bones and short, bony tail resemble those of living birds.

These fast, low-voltage brain waves resemble the ones that occur during wakefulness.

The researchers say that gibbon vocalizations more closely resemble those of rainforest birds in both sound and purpose.

With its dark blue base and black granite top, it's detailed to resemble a piece of fine furniture.

Signs that our great leaders can't agree on priorities will signal to investors that the future will resemble the recent past.

Some resemble ears of corn, clam shells, and bugs while others are abstract boxes or blobs.

Ice particles stack together in sheets that resemble honeycombs.

They can resemble female butterflies, drawing in unsuspecting males who attempt to mate with the plant.

Fruits somewhat resemble miniature blackberries and are favored by birds.

Unfortunately, the market does not always resemble the model.

The pulse and interpulse are believed to correspond to the north and south poles and typically resemble each other.

These are snap-together circuits on pieces that resemble electrical schematics.

After weeks of writing and research, other cast members have come to resemble their chosen historical figures as well.

Flowers are followed by woody capsules that can last for years and may resemble rows of beads pressed into bark.

But in practice, it is coming to resemble a government piggy-bank.

The scarlet kingsnake's red, yellow, and black markings closely resemble those of the highly venomous coral snake.

Please explain how this order differs from mantids, which to my untrained eye they seem to closely resemble.

What will be indoors there hopefully will resemble sculpture.

Fruits somewhat resemble miniature blackberries and are favored b more add to my plant list.

But the pattern could also resemble other letters of the alphabet.

Female and young snowy owls somewhat resemble subarcticus, but they have a white face and lack ear tufts.

The effect can be gained by training on tasks that don't resemble the test questions.

They have long, thin, curving horns that resemble a scimitar sword.

Cannas shoot orange blooms that resemble candle flames above brownish foliage.

The argument appears to resemble one of those wild and unsustainable conjectures.

As he put on weight, he came to resemble nothing so much as what he was-an intellectual, political and artistic battering ram".

Mislabeling is common, since many of these plants closely resemble one another.

But the next five years will not resemble the five preceding the crisis.

It really does resemble a castle and it really is on a hill.

Flowering stems have odd inflorescences springing out at right angles and said to resemble hovering mosquitoes.

These resemble firepits or fireplaces crossed with chimeneas.

Shot by shot, films have evolved to resemble the natural rhythms of the brain.

It will look incredibly stupid and it will resemble a bush far more than a tree, but it will grow back.

Small maroon-purple-white flowers that resemble fuschias.

Unlike any other known protein formation, the structures resemble watertight zippers running perpendicular to the fibril itself.

Since the mid-1950s, computer scientists have been trying to design computer systems that resemble the human brain.

Colleges do not hire based on political views, but historically search committees tend to favor those who resemble themselves.

Since then, however, the country has come to resemble an old-fashioned banana republic.

The world of cybersecurity is starting to resemble a paranoid thriller.

The building, whose support columns resemble slender trees that branch out to hold up the ceiling, is still under construction.

The offices resemble a college physics lab and the employees older versions of the students you would find there.

Retailers see a lucrative future in apps for tablet devices that resemble magazines.

According to the designers, the facility will blend into its dusty surroundings to resemble a rise in the desert floor.

It may in fact resemble our planet in the earliest stages of its existence.

All have funnel-shaped, two-lipped flowers said to resemble a grinning monkey face-hence the common name.

As their name suggests, stick bugs resemble twigs, an effective camouflage.

One way they propose to do that is by requiring the public plan to resemble private insurance as much as possible.

Oftentimes the bachelors degree is so dumbed down its contents begins to resemble what is taught in high school.

Some were kept in cages lit constantly, so as to resemble a never-ending overcast day.

Powder avalanches resemble sand rolling down a dune.

The open bill and the rigid conformity of head, neck and overall body posture in each photo resemble a creation of taxidermy.

Large, showy flowers somewhat resemble narrow-petaled hibiscus blooms.

Where it gets weird and eerie is that it arranged the bones to resemble its own tentacle suckers.

Though they resemble a relic from a forgotten time, wooden water tanks remain a fixture of the cityscape.

The new corporate leader will resemble the old one in one way at least: he will be a man.

The snakes' colors can resemble venomous coral snakes, and the creatures can mimic a rattlesnake's noisy tail shake.

All have funnel-shaped, two-lipped flowers said to resemble a grinning monkey face-hence the.

The image shows six of the structures that resemble a ring of bread buns.

But many, in adapting folklore to the stage, sentimentalize it so much that the results resemble animated travel posters.

What you miss is how this whole system has been engineered to be gutted and reconstructed to resemble a private corporation.

In this it will resemble the top quark, the latest fundamental particle to have been detected.

Ask students to name some common behaviors of house cats that resemble those of their larger relatives, tigers.

Goosebumps are tiny elevations of the skin that resemble the skin of poultry after the feathers have been plucked.

We still may be at the stage where students are more comfortable with electronic books that resemble print books," he said.

It would resemble one of those monstrous creations of antiquity, half human, half beast.

Let's not pretend that corporations are moving to change our profession to resemble them.

In the long term, then, the world's battlefields may see machines that resemble some people's worst.

Black birch is a close-grained, handsome wood, and can be easily stained to resemble walnut exactly.

It also seems to me that the two modes of thinking resemble left-brain and right-brain thinking.

His regime is starting to resemble the dictatorship he once helped to overthrow.

Scientists already knew that the creatures, which resemble underwater hedgehogs, are.

They resemble pennies, although much thinner and traveling at a speed of light.

His typewriter, if that's what it was, apparently didn't resemble the modern machine at all.

ABehaviors of many gifted children can resemble those of, say, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Water molecules found in human hair closely resemble those in the.

Instead, they seem to have organelles that resemble hydrogenosomes-similar to mitochondria, but that use anaerobic chemistry.

For ungilded portions, they employed an array of tools that resemble a dentist's arsenal:.

The shrub attracts hummingbirds with its brilliant red stamens that resemble powder puffs.

Most resemble clip-on canoe paddles for hands or kiddie flippers for feet-clunky versions of their nimble landlubbing brethren.

The procedure might resemble the method used for a patient undergoing anesthesia before surgery.

Bottom line, the two extremes here resemble each other more than either wants to admit.

But it soon began to resemble the marriage from hell.

Some songbirds also go through speech phases that resemble babbling.

Christina cut the shelves to resemble pieces of lumber, then screen-printed beetles and.

Some form wispy clusters of filaments, while others resemble delicate ribbons.

At last it is beginning to resemble a government endeavouring to wield power.

The ropelike creatures were tightly packed into groups that resemble those of modern sponges and corals.

Costa's photographs, are all the same yet different, in the way fingerprints resemble each other but are in fact unique.

By the mid-1940s he began to resemble the narrow-minded provincials he so despised.

These gap filling dark matter equations seem to resemble another type of dark matter to me bovine fecal matter.

Anderson detailed scenes in the film that she said did resemble real life.

Instead of being a collection of departmental silos, they could come to resemble computing platforms.

Earth's future could resemble its hottest ancient epoch, a new study says.

These compounds no longer resemble plant material at all but rather are the chemical leftovers of decomposition.

There can also be features of the body surrounding the false eyes that will even resemble that of the birds' predator.

Traffic patterns at the transfer points now resemble entrances to the slaughter pens in a stockyard.

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World English Dictionary

resemble (rɪˈzɛmb^əl)

—vb
	(tr) to possess some similarity to; be like

[C14: from Old French resembler, from re- + sembler to look like, from Latin similis like]

re'sembler

—n

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Word Origin & History

resemble

mid-14c., from O.Fr. resembler (12c.), from re-, intensive prefix, + sembler "to appear, to seem, be like," from L. simulare "to copy."

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