(a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
(adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(2) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(3) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(4) The public and private sectors alike must do what is necessary to stop global warming," Gore told the Guardian.
(5) Now she’s a senior Aboriginal health worker and runs bush medicine clinics for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people alike, as well as running women’s programs to teach young women about things like safe sex, pregnancy and motherhood.
(6) CD rats were much less responsive to mPOA stimulation (spaced electrodes) than O-M rats, but the responses of both strains to tuberal stimulation were essentially alike.
(7) The unsuppressed and inappropriate renin secretion from the ischemic nephrons impairs renal function in ischemic and hyperfiltering nephrons alike, but in very different ways.
(8) Then those decisions themselves begin to change and such changes become part of a new market calculation for investors and politicians alike.
(9) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(10) The proposal for a privacy objective drew broad support, from privacy advocates, private submitters, law enforcement and investigative agencies alike,” the committee said in its report.
(11) There are no differences in allele frequencies in 2L3 arrangements from any of the widely separated seven different populations; similarly the allele frequencies in the 2L arrangement are alike in all five widely separated populations studied.
(12) The article is also intended to act as a comprehensive guide for students, nurses, medical practitioners and specialists alike, to bring them up to date in new concepts in history taking, physical examination and the sexually explicit aspects of family planning.
(13) An inspiration to nurses and physicians alike, Marie touched thousands of lives before her retirement in 1981.
(14) Microscopic features of the 21 lesions were, however, not alike, thereby implying that such sarcoma-like lesions had derived from heterogeneous origins.
(15) Evaluation of abdominal pain in children poses a major challenge for the pediatrician and pediatric surgeon alike.
(16) The fires raced through burnt and unburnt areas alike, leaping roads and clearings.
(17) The expense associated with medical treatment and the availability of managed care systems (Health Maintenance Organizations and Preferred Provider Organizations, among others) have contributed to the increasing cost consciousness of patient and physician alike.
(18) Speaker after speaker this week – Chinese academics and international environmentalists alike – have highlighted the concrete steps that the world's biggest emitter is taking to reduce its footprint.
(19) Legislators, third parties, physicians, and patients alike have spent countless hours in recent years searching for a way to contain rising medical costs.
(20) Since previous studies with enteric coated naproxen tablets indicated a favourable side effect profile compared to plain tablets, the present data indicates that enteric coated formulations are not all alike, and should be studied individually.
Comparison
Definition:
(n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
(n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
(n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
(n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
(n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
(n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
(v. t.) To compare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(5) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(8) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(9) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(10) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
(11) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(12) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(13) In the hypertensive patients we have found decreased WBF, greater BV and FI in comparison with the control group (p less than 0.001).
(14) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(15) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(16) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(17) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(18) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(19) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(20) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.