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
“The similitude across such an immense scale is astonishing,” Dr. Galison said.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
Such are, more especially, similitudes and analogies, in their widest sense,—which are too often neglected, even by those who admit the necessity of recognizing them where they may be shown to exist.
From On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera by Thomas Vernon Wollaston
At this time the righteous Nephites in the land of Zarahemla were keeping the law of Moses strictly, so far as its outward ordinances were concerned, and understandingly with regard to its symbolism and similitudes.
From An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by John M. (John Metcalf) Taylor
Prefig′urātive, showing by previous figures, types, or similitudes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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