similitude
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They must have dissipation and may follow the Reynolds similitude, but the right approach to examine it had not yet been developed.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The diversity of the world outside of the campus is limited and regimented by the similitude of the vocation.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018
This singular little bird agrees more in its general character with Troglodytes, than with any other established genus; yet with this its similitude is but slight.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.
From Time Magazine Archive
However these various similitudes might be intended as compliments, they afforded no gratification to Uncle Philip, whose secret opinion was, that if Sam looked like anybody, it was undoubtedly Paul Jones.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
Its thought buried itself in similitudes and allusions.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Prefig′urātive, showing by previous figures, types, or similitudes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
