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Resemble vs Semble - What's the difference?

resemble | semble |

As verbs the difference between resemble and semble

is that resemble is   To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar while semble is it seems; it appears that.

As an adjective semble is

like; resembling.

resemble

English

Verb

  • (transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We will resemble you in that.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • * 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.
  • Synonyms

    * mirror * duplicate * look like

    semble

    English

    (wikipedia semble)

    Verb

  • (legal) It seems; it appears that
  • Verb

    (sembl)
  • To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
  • * Prior
  • Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Like; resembling.
  • (Webster 1913) ----