RESEMBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resemble mean? 

• RESEMBLE (verb)
  The verb RESEMBLE has 1 sense:

1. appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to

  Familiarity information: RESEMBLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESEMBLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resemble    ... he / she / it resembles   
Past simple: resembled   
Past participle: resembled   
-ing form: resembling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

This paper resembles my own work

Hypernyms (to "resemble" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resemble"):

look like (bear a physical resemblance to)

come to life (be lifelike, as of a painting)

take after (be similar to a relative)

approximate; come close (be close or similar)

imitate (appear like, as in behavior or appearance)

echo; recall (call to mind)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

resemblance (similarity in appearance or external or superficial details)

 Context examples 

The Mars of billions of years ago more closely resembled Earth than it does today.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars, NASA)

A benign, well circumscribed lung neoplasm morphologically characterized by the presence of cystic spaces resembling alveoli, lined by a simple cuboidal epithelium.

(Alveolar Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of round cells with myoblastic differentiation and a fibrovascular stroma resembling an alveolar growth pattern.

(Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps— cliff-like landforms that resemble stair steps.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

The analysis revealed WASP-18b’s peculiar fingerprint, which doesn’t resemble any exoplanet examined so far.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

He resembled a man on the verge of a fit.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The observed temporal fluctuations also resemble the processes by which the brain becomes alert or returns to calm.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We've long known that sometimes tissue within the human body can start to resemble bone.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Histologically it resembles the papillary neoplasms of the biliary tree.

(Ampullary Noninvasive Papillary Neoplasm, Pancreatobiliary Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign dermal neoplasm comprising of round cells, resembling histiocytes.

(Benign Histiocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)