Tra từ alike - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
exactly
▪ No two people smell exactly alike - though there are similarities between races.
▪ No two street cracks, like the whorls of fingerprints, are exactly alike.
▪ It is certainly true that no two zebras are exactly alike in the details of their black and white lines.
▪ Nevertheless, probably no two were exactly alike.
▪ No two human beings are exactly alike and no two cases will follow the exact pattern.
▪ We are all exactly alike in this respect.
▪ Then there is the fact that two phrases that sound exactly alike can have different meanings depending on their context.
so
▪ The two figures so alike, dark-haired and slender both, dressed in deepest green, were mirror images of each other.
▪ Elsie and Edith Port were so alike that Jennie dosed the wrong one with her cure for all ailments - castor oil.
▪ And why were all the statements so alike?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
share and share alike
▪ The entire estate was bequeathed to the four children, share and share alike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As the personal computer market matured, computer makers have realized that not all PC buyers are alike.
▪ I think my mother and I are very much alike in some ways.
▪ The album is boring - all of their songs sound alike.
▪ The two singers do not sound anything alike.
▪ You lawyers are all alike. You just talk a lot, tell a few lies, and send the bill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Broadly speaking, all these towns looked alike.
▪ Law schools, you see, are more alike than they are different.
▪ The number of mutations increased as the parents became more alike.
▪ You guys with brains are all alike, man.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
VERB
look
▪ A case of forcing one set of data into mother's mould to make them look alike?
▪ Unlike other large animal phyla all nematodes look alike except for size - at least to the common man.
▪ I said yes to everything, but to me machines tend to look alike.
▪ You asked if people say we looked alike.
▪ Siblings don't always look alike.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
great minds (think alike)
▪ Great visions are the signs of great minds and there were few greater visions than those of Newton and Einstein.
▪ Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
▪ Some of the confusion would certainly have been lessened if the two great minds had had opportunities to exchange ideas.
▪ That presents no danger if our great minds are in Paris or London or the United States.
▪ The excitement of the intellectual revolution produced some great minds and some important discoveries.
share and share alike
▪ The entire estate was bequeathed to the four children, share and share alike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Politicians and voters alike are too concerned with short-term problems.
▪ The men in the bridal party should dress alike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accommodation is at a premium in hotels and private houses alike.
▪ But the same rates of interest should not necessarily be paid to non-residents and residents alike.
▪ Conditions in the aftermath of the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development in countryside and city alike.
▪ Crocker was one of the largest banks in California, and was respected by investors and rival bankers alike.
▪ Health risks were matters of acceptance for the most part by employers and workers alike.
▪ None the less, consumers and businesses alike are, in the aggregate, deeper in debt than ever before.
▪ Sister ministered to staff and patients alike and was known everywhere as the Lady with the Veil.

alike

I. a‧like¹ /əˈlaɪk/ adjective [NOT BEFORE NOUN]
[Language : Old English; Origin : onlic, from on + lic 'body']
very similar:
　 ▪ My mother and I are alike in many ways.
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THESAURUS
▪similar adjective almost the same :
　 ▪ Jo said she’d had a similar experience.
　 ▪ The colours are very similar, but I like this one best.
▪like preposition similar to something or someone else :
　 ▪ It tastes a little like chicken.
　 ▪ She still looks like a teenager.
▪alike adjective [NOT BEFORE NOUN] very similar - used especially about the way people look or behave :
　 ▪ She and her sister look alike.
　 ▪ Lawyers are all alike - I don’t trust them.
▪close adjective very similar :
　 ▪ The film bears a close resemblance to real life (=is very similar).
　 ▪ The painting is remarkably close to the original.
▪much the same very similar :
　 ▪ The glass is still made in much the same way as it was 100 years ago.
　 ▪ People are much the same, wherever you go.
　 ▪ She still looks very much the same.
▪identical adjective exactly the same :
　 ▪ The two computers were identical in design.
　 ▪ identical names
▪matching adjective having the same colour, style, pattern etc as something else - used about clothes or furniture that you wear or use together :
　 ▪ She wore matching silver shoes and handbag.
　 ▪ a dining table and matching chairs
▪akin to something formal fairly similar to something :
　 ▪ These dialects are akin to Arabic, though different in several respects.

II. alike² adverb
1. in a similar way:
　 ▪ The twins were dressed alike. ⇨ great minds think alike at great¹(15)

2. used to emphasize that you mean both the people, groups, or things that you have just mentioned:
　 ▪ I learned a lot from teachers and students alike.