similar
IPA: sˈɪmʌɫɝ
noun
- That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
- (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.
adjective
- Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
- (mathematics) Having the same shape, in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.
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Examples of "similar" in Sentences
- Socialism and communism are similar but not the same.
- These are the bodies with similar names and the same referent.
- The plot is similar to Hoot but it doesn't have the same cast.
- The same applies to distrust of the UN and similar organizations.
- Welding is the joining of metal of the same or similar kind of metal.
- Several similar misapprehensions were flying around at the same time.
- The number 12 is so strikingly similar to the same number in the Bible.
- It is a mistake to confound the similar verses as having the same meaning.
- The diction is the same as that used in earlier cantos on similar subjects.
- Moreover, the phonetic similarity carries the same connotation to the hearer.
- In the event of a tie for first place at the championship, in both the events, there will be a playoff for the title similar to previous years.
- Jiau's lawyer, Joanna Hendon, said her client deserved a term similar to the 18 months Rakoff imposed on a co-defendant in the expert-networking investigation.
- The guard had worn an expression similar to the white-clothed man who was leading him at the moment; apparently the boss man wanted all his employees to be resocialized.
- Throughout his speech, Mr. Obama made repeated references to Republican plans and ideas, and even used a phrase similar to that employed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia when he talked about American's getting their "fair shake."
- It was a word similar to misunderstanding, which when Grace thought of it now, was like those huge beautiful air balloons, a hundred feet in circumference, that the Japanese had sent across the ocean, nearly ten thousand of them, during the Second World War.
- If you go to other parts of the planet at similar latitudes and with similar climates, you may find different species of conifers or lycopodia or seed-eating birds, but you'll find _similar_ species making up an ecosystem overall so much like the other that an untrained observer may not notice the difference.
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