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Liken vs Alike - What's the difference?

liken | alike |

As a verb liken

is to compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).

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.

liken

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
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    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

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    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.
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  • *: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

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