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similar | such |

As an adjective similar

is having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

As a noun similar

is that which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

As a determiner such is

like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.

As a pronoun such is

a person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.

As a proper noun Such is

{{surname|lang=en}.

similar

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling.
  • Synonyms

    * (with common characteristics) akin, alike, comparable, identical, same, twin

    Antonyms

    * (alike) different, unlike

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
  • (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease
  • such

    English

    (wikipedia such)

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal) * (obsolete)

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (lb) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
  • *, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • (lb) Any.
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  • Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of .
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  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
  • (lb) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
  • *(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
  • *:In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.
  • *(Bible), (w) iv.13:
  • *:To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.
  • Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • A person, a thing, people or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
  • * 1804 , Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler , C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:
  • These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such' as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of ' such as have chances in the public lottery.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such —in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • * 2000 , Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen (ISBN 0312867867), page 238:
  • Some are just no-good locals—drunks and such —who’d just as soon beg or steal as work.

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