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Alike vs Selfie - What's the difference?

alike | selfie |

As an adjective alike

is having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

As an adverb alike

is in the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.

As a noun selfie is

a photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.

As a verb selfie is

to take a selfie.

alike

English

Alternative forms

* yliche (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
    • The twins were alike .

    Derived terms

    * alikeness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

    • Derived terms

    * share and share alike

    Anagrams

    * *

    selfie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
  • * 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" ABC Online Forum [[http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040118000958/http://mcs.une.edu.au/~nhope/lip.jpg selfie photo]:
    • Um, drunk at a mates(SIC) 21st, I tripped ofer(SIC) and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie .
  • * 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/], Flickr:
    • Pre. Nice rooftop selfie'. No Hair. Another nice rooftop ' selfie .
  • * 2005 , Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index , HOW Books (2005), ISBN 9781581807660, page 148:
    • That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie .
  • * 2012' December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A '''Selfie ” [http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie], ''the picture show , National Public Radio
  • * 2013' December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘'''Selfie -Gate’”, ''On the Media , National Public Radio:
    • Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Hypernyms

    * self-portrait

    Verb

  • (informal) to take a selfie

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