noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a family resemblance (= when members of the same family look like each other )
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There's a strong family resemblance between all the sisters.
superficial resemblance/similarity
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Despite their superficial similarities, the two novels are, in fact, very different.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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Indeed, the Bate Collection's instrument displays an astonishingly close resemblance to it.
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Typically, hardly anyone noticed: but then no one ever watched Crossroads for its close resemblance to real life.
little
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For instance, Matisse and Picasso's nudes often bear little resemblance to the sitter.
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By age 7, there is little resemblance .
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But such autopsies, like war games, often bear little resemblance to actual war.
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This number bore little resemblance to what we actually had in the field.
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She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.
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A florid, solid woman, Zaiga bore little resemblance to the lithe, romantic girl her parents had lost.
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By age 7, there is little resemblance . not yet fully logical; it is prelogical.
passing
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And Charlie, as her lover, bears more than a passing resemblance to yesterday's hero, James Dean.
physical
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For apart from being equipped with eyes, head and body, dolphins and whales bear little outward physical resemblance to ourselves.
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It came to him that Smitty, in some respects, bore a physical resemblance to Ken Grimes.
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Huxley's Man's Place in Nature of 1863 had stressed the physical resemblances between humans and apes.
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References to Charles's physical resemblance to his grandfather and namesake can be taken seriously.
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This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace.
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The physical resemblance had struck him at once.
remarkable
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It bears a remarkable resemblance to the kind of natural time machine postulated by Frank Tipler, of the University of Texas.
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The experiences were interpreted quite differently, even though they produced remarkable resemblances in character.
slight
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And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba, too.
striking
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Such labels bear a striking resemblance to advertising bill boards.
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Although in profile and painted, rather than in relief, it bears a striking resemblance to the Alletio sherd from Corbridge.
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They bear a striking resemblance to Koquillion.
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And yet this type of ambiguity bears a striking resemblance to the scope ambiguities described above.
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He was always impressed by the striking resemblance between his Uncle Julian and his father.
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Chester's Gateway Theatre is looking for a mild-mannered all round good-egg who bears a striking resemblance to the former Everton striker.
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Jane Russell bore a striking resemblance to Sweetheart.
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The Babylonian literature, however, affords some striking resemblances .
strong
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She bore a very strong resemblance to Vera Norman!
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The wart itself bears a strong resemblance to the creature as a whole except just at the point of attachment.
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In both outward profile and interior decor the yacht bears a very strong resemblance to her smaller sister.
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He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother, although she looked the elder by some years.
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It would account for the strong resemblance .
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Fewer than 50 are used outside advertising - and most of these bear strong resemblances to each other.
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Listening circles were set up which bear a strong resemblance to those used for today's Open University programmes.
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Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
superficial
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Genesis 1 has often been compared with the Babylonian account of creation to which it bears a superficial resemblance .
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But such arrangements bear only a superficial resemblance to classic design.
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The administration of Ponthieu bore some superficial resemblances to that of Aquitaine.
uncanny
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He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
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The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
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One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.
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Stack saw an uncanny resemblance to his fictional Josh.
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In the multi-tracked recording Mr Jarvis plays 99 roles, many of which bear an uncanny resemblance to well-known actors.
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The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.
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It was a face in fact which bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Jack Palance.
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There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
■ NOUN
family
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Their expressions were drained of personality which gave them the family resemblance possessed by a flock of sheep.
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Whether or not these family resemblances are accurately identified, this kind of inheritance is now firmly established by experience and science.
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A curious family resemblance , a hundred years apart.
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All bore a distinct snub-nosed family resemblance to one another.
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All four looked white different, yet slightly the same, like distant relatives with an underlying family resemblance .
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Even the F40 shows a distinct family resemblance , although the lines were sharpened and simplified.
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A few family resemblances were put forward, but it was all guesswork.
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The Rover 800-series, to which the new 200 bears a strong family resemblance , was the first.
■ VERB
bear
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To some - notably the three Oz editors - it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal.
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The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
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It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them.
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But such autopsies, like war games, often bear little resemblance to actual war.
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The oldest Tertiary rocks contained archaic mammals that bore no resemblance to the living families within the class.
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The wart itself bears a strong resemblance to the creature as a whole except just at the point of attachment.
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He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
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These artificial neurons bear only a modest resemblance to the real things.
bore
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To some - notably the three Oz editors - it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal.
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The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.
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The chicken in the biryani bore a worrying anatomical resemblance to cat.
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This number bore little resemblance to what we actually had in the field.
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It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before.
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It came to him that Smitty, in some respects, bore a physical resemblance to Ken Grimes.
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For Blanche the atmosphere bore no resemblance to the glamorous, fun-filled evening promised in the advertisements.
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Citations commonly bore little resemblance to events.
pass
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He bore more than a passing resemblance to Horace Greeley.
strike
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This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace.
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Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bear a resemblance/relation to sb/sth
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Bellow supported Roth's early work, and Roth's work was to bear a resemblance to Bellow's.
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The medical model is explicit: Teaching bears a resemblance to the practice of medicine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Although the fish have little external resemblance to each other, skeletally they are quite similar.
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The Japanese maple leaf bears a striking resemblance to a marijuana leaf.
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When he met Francesca's aunt he was instantly struck by the family resemblance .
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When you look at this painting and the one by Rembrandt, there is certainly a resemblance .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
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How I hated these portraits, the photographs, the resemblances!
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In its structure and methods, the program bears a strong and not accidental resemblance to the United States Peace Corps.
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The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.
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The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations and other officials noted the resemblance between the two proposals.
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Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master's.