Likename

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  A surname.

likeverb詞源 1/laɪ̯k/

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  To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

  • I like reading books.
  • I very much like hamburgers.
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  archaicTo enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

  • I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature.
  • His countenance likes me not.
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  obsoleteTo enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

  • And therefore it is the best way, if you like of it, to examine these taken from experiments touching the Earth, and then proceed to those of the other kind.
  • He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
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  To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.

  • I like to go to the dentist every six months.
  • She likes to keep herself physically fit.
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  To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

  • I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
  • ― Enju: “Apparently when you like someone, you start talking like them.”
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  To want, desire. See also would like.

  • Would you like a cigarette?
  • We could go to the museum if you like.
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  To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

  • I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.
  • I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.
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  informalOf inanimate objects:

  • Too bad this cheese likes to stick to the pan and ruin the whole meal.

likenoun詞源 1/laɪ̯k/

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  Something that a person likes (prefers).

  • Tell me your likes and dislikes.
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  An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.

  • Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
  • Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes

likeadj詞源 2/laɪ̯k/

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  Similar.

  • My partner and I have like minds.
  • The two cats were as like as though they had come from the same litter.
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  Likely; probable.

  • But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
  • Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules.
• 3

  inclined (to), prone (to).

  • He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.

likeadv詞源 2/laɪ̯k/

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  obsoletedialectalLikely.

  • DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit. CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough.
  • “You'll try it, some day, like enough; but you'll get tired of the change pretty soon.” “Why?” “Well, I'll tell you. Now you've always been a sailor; did you ever try some other business?”
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  archaicrareIn a like or similar manner.

  • Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

likenoun詞源 2/laɪ̯k/

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  Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.

  • There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.
  • This is something the likes of which I've never seen before, and we should compare like with like instead.
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  golfhobbieslifestyleThe stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.

  • to play the like

likeconj詞源 2/laɪ̯k/

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  As, the way.

  • 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
  • But if you do right to me, baby I’ll do right to you, too Ya got to do unto others Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you
• 2

  As if; as though.

  • It looks like you've finished the project.
  • It seemed like you didn't care.
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  Such as.

  • Why don’t we do something useful like clean the kitchen?

likeprep詞源 2/laɪ̯k/

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  Similar to, reminiscent of.

  • Folk like that I just can’t brook.
  • I’m very like my father.
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  Typical of.

  • It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.
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  Approximating.

  • Popcorn costs something like 10 dollars at the movies.
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  In the manner of, similarly to.

  • He doesn't act like a president.
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  Such as; including.

  • It's for websites like Wikipedia.
  • In Mars's office, near his own impressive executive desk (a Vladimir Kagan), hangs a mixed media artwork depicting legendary MCs like Queen Latifah, Slick Rick, Rakim, and Nas (a business partner of Mars's).
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  As if there would be.

  • It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
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  Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something.

  • I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like? –He's intelligent and handsome.
  • What’s the weather like in Ürümqi today?

likeparticle詞源 2/laɪ̯k/

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  A delayed filler.

  • He was so angry, like.
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  Indicating approximation or uncertainty.

  • There were, like, twenty of them.
  • [Sally Brown:] Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is good. [Charlie Brown:] GIVING! The only real joy is GIVING! [Sally Brown, rolling her eyes:] Like, wow!
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  Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.

  • I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
  • A customer walked in like, "I demand to see the manager!"
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  A discourse marker used to highlight or put focus on new information or a new development in a story.

  • She was, like, sooooo happy.
  • And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.

likeverb詞源 3/laɪ̯k/

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  dialectalTo be likely.

  • He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition, from the wall of Kensington garden.