Recollect vs Resemble - What's the difference?
recollect | resemble |
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
(obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
To compose oneself.
* Dryden
* 1847 , Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
As a noun recollect
is a member of a french reform branch of the order of friars minor, commonly known as the franciscans.As a verb resemble is
.recollect
English
Etymology 1
FromVerb
(en verb)- I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I was there.
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The Tyrian queen Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; then recollected stood.
- The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.