What's the difference between alike and resemble?

Alike


Definition:

  • (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.

Resemble


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
  • (v. t.) To liken; to compare; to represent as like.
  • (v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • (v. t.) To cause to imitate or be like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (2) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (3) The above results indicate that the psychopharmacological profile of SAM resembles that of antidepressants in only some tests.
  • (4) The blastocyst antiluteolytic protein therefore closely resembles the interferon-alpha family of antiviral proteins.
  • (5) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
  • (6) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
  • (7) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
  • (8) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
  • (9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (10) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
  • (11) A nonspecific reaction of the marrow against extramedullary lymphogranulomatosis closely resembling to the so-called tumor myeopathy has to be distinguished from the localized marrow changes due to the tumor itself.
  • (12) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
  • (13) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  • (14) Based on similarities in elution time, the metabolites of [35S]PTU in urine closely resembled those in bile of rats.
  • (15) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
  • (16) The structure of L-carnitine resembles the chemical structure of other substances that have been described as being able to protect living cells against osmotic stress.
  • (17) The antimicrobial activity of mederrhodin A resembled that of medermycin.
  • (18) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
  • (19) The dose response initially resembled that described by Scholer (1959) in which one million spores killed the majority of mice.
  • (20) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.