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Alike

Definitions: Alike

Alike

Adjective

1. Having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste".

Adverb

1. Equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms".

2. In a like manner; "they walk alike".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "alike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Alike

Synonyms: alike(p) (adj), like (adj), similar (adj), likewise (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: unalike (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Alike

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Participation

Verb: participate, partake; share, share in; come in for a share; go shares, go snacks, go halves; share and share alike.

Adverb: share and share alike.

Prodigality

Phrase: amor nummi; facile largiri de alieno; wie gewonnen so zerronnen; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent; "spendthrift alike of money and of wit"; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art".

Similarity

Render similar; Adjective: assimilate, approximate, bring near; connaturalize, make alike; rhyme, pun.

Adjective: similar; resembling; Verb: like, alike; twin.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Alike

English words defined with "alike": After onedissimilar, distinct, distinctness, distinguishableEqual temperament, EquipensateHomogamous, Homogenesis, Homogonousidentical, Iliche, In-and-in, indistinguishable, Isodiametric, Isotonic systemlactic acid, like, likewise, Loblolly treeothernessPlesiomorphous, Proaseparateness, Share and share alike, similarTo strike talliesunalike, UnisonantYlike. (references)
Specialty definitions using "alike": All cannot do allbalanced circuit, BothDisobey, Dittoes, Dromio, Drum, Dudeguy, duo-trio testEpigram, EUPHORBIA HIRTAFish and FleshHermitINADMISSIBLEj'likekeyed alike locklike productNor, notpdksh, Perseverance, Peterboat, planting shootReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, retribution, roundheadSit UponTotal., triangle test. (references)

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Modern Usage: Alike

DomainUsage

Screenplays

In fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are mistaken for dwarf men. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Because they're all alike. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

Two households, both alike in dignity. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Well you all do look alike (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth)

All wives are alike. (The Private Life of Don Juan; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Frederick Lonsdale)

Lyrics

Only started with a little kiss alike this! ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

So I gave her just a little kiss alike this! ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Clever

We are all alike, on the inside. (references; author: Mark Twain)

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Teenagers express their burning desires to be different by dressing exactly alike. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Share and Share Alike (1925)

They All Look Alike to Me (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Alike

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cadillac Shop Manual, 1968-74: Full Maintenance, Repair, Troubleshooting, and Tune-Up Information for Shade-Tree Mechanic and Professional Alike (reference)

  • Elk Hunter: The Ultimate Sourcebook on Elk and Elk Hunting for the Beginner and Expert Alike (reference)

  • Grandmothers Are Like Snowflakes...No Two Are Alike (reference)

  • Happy Endings Are All Alike (reference)

  • How to Draw Cars: For Beginner and Pro Alike! (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • How Communities Are Alike & Different (reference)

  • Old Macdonald's Sing Along Farm: Share and Care Alike (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Alike

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Alike

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

You see? everybody is treated exactly alike.Credit: Library of Congress.

Dudes in town, Billings, Montana. Four cowboys dress alike in front of bar.Credit: Library of Congress.

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding an.Credit: Library of Congress.

So alike! Such accord!.Credit: Library of Congress.

One approach to combating inflation could be trust-busting, fragmenting giant unions and giant corporations alike. But that's politically implausible.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Alike

AuthorQuotation

Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Balfour

The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame.

Christian Nevell Bovee

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christopher Marlowe

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Confucius

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Denis Diderot

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Honore De Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

John Donne

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Leigh Hunt

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Alike

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Hence all commonwealths, with the form of government established, have rules also of appointing those who are to have any share in the public authority, and settled methods of conveying the right to them: for the anarchy is much alike, to have no form of government at all; or to agree that it shall be monarchical, but to appoint no way to know or design the person that shall have the power, and be the monarch. (Second Treatise of Government)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

I have felt bound to portray the shadow which, alike in the west and in the east, falls upon the world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Alike

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

They were alike too, in a general benevolence of temper, and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance.

Lady of the Ladle

Carroll, Lewis

And he had scaled that wondrous stair That soars from earth to upper air, Where rich and poor alike must climb, And walk the treadmill for a time.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

And, in these two places, so alike and yet so different, these two species of beings so dissimilar were performing the same work of expiation.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

For just and unjust, for saint and sinner alike, may this retreat be a memorable one.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They were alike in size and their faces were alike.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

They all reflect and absorb his rays alike, and the former make but a small part of the glorious picture which he beholds in his daily course.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Alike

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Parents should exercise special care in supervising the use of personal headset listening devices, and adults and children alike should learn to operate them at safe volume settings. (references)

Physicians, parents, and adult patients alike need to recognize when infections are more than "ordinary," so that treatment can be started in time to prevent permanent damage or life-threatening complications. (references)

Children and adults alike should set a goal of accumulating at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, and preferably, all days of the week. Most Americans have little or no physical activity in their daily lives, and accumulating evidence indicates that physical inactivity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. (references)

Business

This is good news for both patients and equipment vendors alike. (references)

U.S. providers dominate Taiwan's software market for large and small enterprises alike. (references)

This can be a costly, lengthy, and confusing process for the exporter and the Polish importer alike. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Hindu groups such as the RSS are pushing for a uniform civil code that would treat members of all religions alike. (references)

Economic History

Uk

Local and foreign-owned companies are taxed alike. (references)

Bahrain

Foreigners and Bahrainis alike have ready access to credit on market terms. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

The Hudood Ordinances are applied to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. (references)

Iceland

No groups are barred from testifying, and all testimony is treated alike. (references)

Minorities

Uzbekistan

The Government also is in the process of replacing the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin alphabet; however, realizing the difficulties for Uzbeks and minorities alike, the Government has delayed the full transition to both the Uzbek language and the Latin alphabet to 2005. (references)

Political Economy

NETHERLANDS

Investment subsidies are available to foreign and domestic firms alike. (references)

OMAN

Currently, Omanis and resident foreigners alike are free to join only a very few officially sanctioned associations. (references)

PERU

The two treaties will together strengthen Peru's IPR laws and provide protection to domestic and foreign companies alike. (references)

Trade

Japan

Many domestic products and imported products alike are subject to product testing and cannot be sold in Japan without certification of compliance with prescribed standards. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Great Irish Pub and very popular with Ghanaians and expats alike. (references)

Nigeria

Harassment and shakedowns of foreigners and Nigerians alike by uniformed personnel and others occur frequently throughout the country. (references)

Women

Sweden

The law requires employers to treat men and women alike in hiring, promotion, and pay, including equal pay for comparable work. (references)

Worker Rights

Australia

Labor law protects citizens, permanent residents, and migrant workers alike. (references)

Turkey

In practice financial constraints, limited safety awareness, carelessness, and fatalistic attitudes result in scant attention to occupational safety and health by workers and employers alike. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Alike

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Bill Maher

They're, at the end of the day, patriotic Americans. They're politicians. They're a lot more alike than they are different. They exaggerate the differences during election times to fool us, and by the way, it worked.

Fran Drescher

I'm not a suer. I didn't sue anybody. I want to help people and I want to raise consciousness, and I want people, men and women alike, to become more aware of what early warning signs of cancer is and to empower themselves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Alike

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801But considering the late manifestations of her policy toward foreign nations, I deem it a duty deliberately and solemnly to declare my opinion that whether we negotiate with her or not, vigorous preparations for war will be alike indispensable.

James Monroe

1817-1825The benevolent provision of the act under which the protection has been extended alike to the commerce of other nations can not fail to be duly appreciated by them.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

James K. Polk

1845-1849That the blessings of liberty which our Constitution secures may be enjoyed alike by minorities and majorities, the Executive has been wisely invested with a qualified veto upon the acts of the Legislature.

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921United alike in the conception of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must now set our hand.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Producers and consumers alike will benefit from a more stable market for this essential commodity.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Tonight I ask all our trading partners, developed and developing alike, to join us in a new round of trade negotiations to expand trade and competition and strengthen the global economy--and to begin it in this next year.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001You, Republicans and Democrats alike, can show the American people that we can limit spending and open the airwaves to all candidates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Alike

"Alike" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 98.65% of the time. "Alike" is used about 1,107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)98.65%1,0926,913
Adjective (general or positive)1.35%1590,616
                    Total100.00%1,107N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Alike

Expressions using "alike": ad share and share alike be alike both alike it's all alike to me keyed alike lock look alike old and young alike share alike share and share alike they are all alike we are alike winter and summer alike. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "alike": Alike-minded.

Ending with "alike": sound-alike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alike

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  celebrity look alike

45

  alike celebrity fox look

4

  alike doll look

21

  keyed alike lock

4

  look alike

16

  alike recipe taste

4

  alike look mosquito

15

  alike jennifer look lopez

4

  britney spears look alike

11

  britney look alike

4

  alike lark look

9

  alike handbag look

3

  alike celebrity contest look

8

  aaliyah alike look

3

  alike contest look

8

  alike croft lara look

3

  alike behavior caught celebrity look outrageous tape

7

  alike behavior celebrity look

3

  alike job neither not tech

7

  keyed alike padlocks

3

  alike celeb look

7

  alike designer look purse

3

  alike sound that words

7

  alike jackson look michael

3

  alike comedian look

7

  alike celebrity look show tv

3

  alike great mind think

6

  look alike sun glasses

3

  look alike golf club

6

  aguilera alike christina look

3

  alike celebrity look show

5

  alike bag designer look

3

  alike behavior celebrity look outrageous

5

  alike justin look timberlake

3

  alike designer handbag look

5

  alike look xp

3

  alike look louis vuitton

5

  alike handbag look louis vuitton

3

  alike

4

  kate spade look alike

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alike

Language Translations for "alike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

ewe (a, a few minutes, a moment, a while, all, all the same, equally, likewise, momentarily). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

njëlloj (both, equally, likewise, same kind, the same), i njëjtë (equal, even, homogeneous, identic, identical, like, same, uniform, very), i ngjashëm (analogous, homogeneous, identic, identical, like, near, parallel, resembling, same, similar). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متشابه (analogical, corresponding), ‏سواء (whether), ‏على قدم, ‏بالطريقة نفسها (same). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сходен (akin, analogous, cognate, congruent, congruous, like, osculant, similar), еднакъв (coequal, equable, equal, even, identic, identical, invariable, level, like, one, same, self, twin, unaffected, uniform), еднакво (equally, even, uniformly), подобен (agnate, akin, allied to, analogous, bastard, comparable, connatural, ditto, homo-, homoeo-, kindred, like, parallel, similar, sister, such, suchlike), по същия начин (likewise, same, similarly), по равно (equally, fifty fifty). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(like, same, similar, together, with). (various references)

   

Czech

  

stejný (coequal, consistent, equal, even, identical, like, one, parallel, same, tantamount, uniform), stejnì (anyhow, anyway, as it is, ditto, equally, even so, evenly, in the same way, just the same, though), podobný (akin, analogous, close, conformable, kindred, like, similar, such, suchlike), podobnì (in a similar way, likewise, similarly). (various references)

   

Danish

  

lignende (like, similar). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

soortgelýk (like, similar), op dezelfde wýze (similarly), op dezelfde manier (similarly), gelýkvormig (like, similar, uniform), gelýksoortig (analogous, like, similar), gelýkend (like, similar), gelýkelýk (all the same, equally), gelýk (all the same, at the same time, equal, equally, even, flat, level, smooth), evenzeer (all the same, also, equally, likewise, too), even (all the same, equally, even, just, likewise, momentarily, so, such, that, thus), eender (equal, even, level, like, similar). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

simila (like, similar), egale (all the same, equally). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

líkur (like, probable, similar). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یکسان (Akin, Equal, Same, Similar), یکجور (Homogeneous), مانندهم , همانند (Equal, Like, Similar), شبیه (Equal, Like, Likeness, Make, Medal, Quasi, Rival, Similar, Simile), بتساوی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhtäläinen (equal, even, identical, level, like, of the same kind, similar). (various references)

   

French

  

semblable, pareil. (various references)

   

German

  

gleich (again, all the same, at once, conforming, equal, equally, equivalent, even, fitting, identic, identical, identically, immediately, in a jiffy, in a minute, in a moment, instantaneous, instantly, just, level, like, likewise, now, outright, pair, parallel, promptly, right, right away, right now, same, similar, soon, straight away, the same, uniform, uniformly, without delay), ähnlich (akin, analogical, like, likely, likewise, near, related, similar, similar to, similarly, simular), gleicherweise. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όμοιοσ (congenial, even, like, likewise, same, similar, throw back), ομοιάζων, ομοίωσ (even, similarly, withal). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"ומ" (akin, analogous, grave, like, resembling, same, silence, similar, stillness, such). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hasonló (affined, akin, analogous, analogue, comparable, corresponding, cousin, homeo-, homoeo-, like, parallel, similar, such), egyformán (equally, evenly), hasonlóan (correspondingly, likewise, similarly), egyforma (all the same, equable, equal to, evenly proportioned share, level, much of a muchness, stereotyped, uniform), egyaránt (both, equally, in the same way). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

serupa (identical, similar), sama (analogical, analogous, ditto, equal, even, identical, same, similiar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

simile (akin, analogue, like, similar, similarly, simular, such, suchlike). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

共に (along with, both, including, participate in, sharing with, together, with). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ともに (along with, both, including, participate in, sharing with, together, with). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

사 으로. (various references)

   

Manx

  

gollrish y cheilley (akin, akin things), goll ry-cheilley (associate, go together), cosoylagh (allegoric, allegorical, likely, similar, symbolic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alikeay

   

Portuguese

  

parecido (conformable, like, resemblant, resembling, similar). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

asemenea (also, equal, like, such, too), asemãnãtor (affined, congenerous, kindred, like, likewise, parallel, similar, similarly, such), aidoma (living), la fel (idem, item, likewise, so, uniform), deopotrivã, în acelaşi fel (in like manner, in the same way, the same). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

одинаковый (coordinate, equal, even, level, like, uniform). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ionann (the same). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sličan (analogous, connatural, like, similar), nalik (resembling, similar), jednako (equally, even, evenly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

semejante (akin, analogous, approaching, like, resemblant, similar, such, suchlike). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

liknande (akin to, approximate, kindred, like, resembling, similar, similarly, such). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

aynı (all of a piece, equal, facsimile, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, idem, identic, identical, in rem, like, look alike, no change, of a piece, same, self, selfsame, similarly, the same, to a hair, uniform, very), farksız (indifferent, indistinguishable, nothing less than, same, the same, undistinguished), fark gözetmeden, benzeyen (akin, akin to, imitative, smilar), benzer şekilde, benzer (analogic, analogical, analogous, analogue, approximate, closely, conformable, congener, congenerous, connate, correlative, counterpart, double, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, homologous, image, in common, indistinguishable, kindred, like, look alike, match, of a piece, parallel, same, similar, simulant, stand in, vicinal), baxabax (all the same, equal, equally, even, level). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

uly-kiзi (young and old alike). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

схожий (affined, akin, analogous, approximate, cognate, compatible, like, near, resemblant, similar), такий самий, так само (ditto, same, similarly), однаково (equally, evenly), однаковий (connatural, equal, even, identic, identical, level, like, one), подібно (likewise), подібний (analogous, another, conformable, corresponding, like, resemblant, similar, such, suchlike). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tương tự (analogous, kindred, like, parallel, semblable, similarly), như nhau (like, same, similar), giống nhau (analogous, like, similar), giống (agreement, like, spawn), đều nhau. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

yr un fath, yn gyffelyb. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Alike

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

aequaliter, pariter. (various references)

Avestan200-600

hamatha. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Alike

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 27, Verse 15
Latin405VulgateTecta perstillantia in die frigoris et litigiosa mulier conparantur
Middle English1395WyclifRooues thury droppende in the dai of cold, and a womman ful of strif ben comparisound togidere.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Victorian English1833WebsterA continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Basic English1964OgdenLike an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Alike

LanguageProverbs Chapter 27, Verse 15
Cebuano¶ Ang kanunay nga pagtulo sa adlaw sa ting-ulan Ug ang usa ka makig-awayon nga babaye managsama:
CroatianStreha što prokišnjava za žestoke kiše i svadljiva žena - jedno su te isto.
DanishUstandseligt Tagdryp en Regnvejrsdag og trættekær Kvinde ligner hinanden;
DutchEen gedurige druiping ten dage des slagregens en een kijfachtige huisvrouw zijn even gelijk.
FinnishRäystäästä tippuva vesi sadepäivänä ja toraisa vaimo ovat yhdenveroiset.
FrenchUne gouttière continue dans un jour de pluie Et une femme querelleuse sont choses semblables.
GermanEin zänkisches Weib und stetiges Triefen, wenn's sehr regnet, werden wohl miteinander verglichen.
Haitian Creole¶ Yon fanm ki toujou ap chache kont, se tankou yon goutyè k'ap degoute lè lapli ap tonbe tout lajounen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariIstri yang suka pertengkaran seperti bunyi hujan yang turun seharian.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBocor yang bertitik-titik selalu pada masa hujan deras, ia itu sama dengan seorang bini yang bantahan.
ItalianIl gocciolar continuo in tempo di pioggia e una moglie litigiosa, si rassomigliano:
Maori¶ He maturuturu e puputu tonu ana i te ra nui te ua, he wahine ngangare, rite tonu raua:
NorwegianEt stadig takdrypp på en regndag og en trettekjær kvinne ligner hverandre.
PortugueseA goteira contínua num dia chuvoso e a mulher rixosa são semelhantes;   
RumanianO strawinq, care picurq necurmat kntr`o zi de ploaie, wi o nevastq gklcevitoare sknt tot una.
RussianоЕ ТЕУФБООБС ЛБ ЕМШ Ч "ПЦ"МЙЧЩК "ЕОШ Й УЧБТМЙЧБС ЦЕОБ--ТБЧОЩ:
SpanishGotera continua en un día de lluvia y mujer rencillosa son semejantes;

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Alike

Derivations

Words beginning with "alike": alikeness, alikenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "alike": lavalike, lookalike, novalike, pealike, pizzalike, soundalike, tealike, unalike. (additional references)

Words containing "alike": lookalikes, soundalikes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Alike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abiko, aice, Aike, Ailbe, Ailie, aille, alace, alak, Alecko, alek, Aleke, Aleksey, alekum, Alemka, aliae, alic, Alices, alide, alie, Aligue, alik, aliken, Aliker, alikes, alire, Alisky, alite, alitex, alize, alka, Alkem, Alken, alkie, Alkin, alkine, alkio, Allaker, allek, allicin, Aloka, Alpkem, Altick, aluco, Alyakkh, Alyce, Aoife, Ariake, Arlick, Aulide, awike, axlike, elake, Eliakim, elik, Elika, eliki, Elkie, Elleke, idlike, ilake, ilako, ilik, Kalinke, Malika, Maliki, Mallika, Nalepka, nayika, Olice, Palika, plike, Ralik, rlykke, Salikh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Alike"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "alike" (pronounced ulī"k)
3-l ī" kdislike, like, unlike.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Alike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-l"

-1 letter: ilea, ilka, kail, kale, lake, leak, like.

-2 letters: ail, ale, elk, ilk, kae, kea, lea, lei, lek, lie.

-3 letters: ae, ai, al, el, ka, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-l"
 

+1 letter: alkies, alkine, alsike, axlike, lakier, talkie.

 

+2 letters: airlike, alkines, alsikes, antlike, apelike, armlike, asslike, balkier, batlike, catlike, fanlike, fatlike, flakier, glaiket, hatlike, jawlike, kaoline, keitloa, lakiest, lankier, larkier, lawlike, leakier, leakily, leaking, likable, linkage, manlike, maplike, oaklike, oarlike, oatlike, pealike, ratlike, raylike, saclike, sawlike, skiable, taglike, talkier, talkies, tealike, unalike, warlike, waxlike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Alike


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 69 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    ..    -.-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#105 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0069 006B 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3578757771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Orthography
24. Bibliography


  

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