Verb

(transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

* Shakespeare

We will resemble you in that.

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* 2005 , .

But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

The twins resemble each other.

To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

(obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.

* Holland

They can so well resemble man's speech.

(obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.

Verb

(en-verb)

To make distinctions.

Since he was colorblind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.

To make decisions based on prejudice.

The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.

To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.

(Cowper)

* Barrow

To discriminate the goats from the sheep.