What's the difference between alike and similitude?

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.

Similitude


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
  • (n.) The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
  • (n.) That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison between the germs found in germ carrier donors and those found in recipients with sepsis showed a similitude in three cases (2.2%).
  • (2) Traditionally it has been assumed that hydric anademia explains, for the most part, the paths taken by the disease and its varying intensity, but the importance of direct interhuman contamination is demonstrated by the similitude between the ways gone along by the propagation and these of the circulation of men and goods.
  • (3) Electrophoretic comparison with glutelins extracted by acetic acid and with hordeins, all reduced and alkylated, discloses a great similitude between this fraction, the glutelins and some hordein fast components alpha, beta and gamma.
  • (4) Due to major the and microscopic similitude between low degree transitional cell carcinoma and the localized inflammatory changes (papillary cystitis) the criteria to establish a correct diagnosis are discussed.
  • (5) Burundanga intoxication is related to other toxic phenomena found in different countries and similitudes with transient global amnesia are emphasized.
  • (6) A clinical study has been done and we have established a similitude with Axenfeld's primary calcareal degeneration, which was described by this author in 1917.
  • (7) Calbindin D-27 kDa (previously named vitamin D-CaBP or cholecalcin) and visinin present similitude both for their purification procedure and histochemical localization.
  • (8) Allometry of resting VO2 among cockroach species is similar to that in vertebrates, and is consistent with models based on both "elastic similarity" and "biological similitude."
  • (9) 54 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), 26 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 18 control subjects, all over 55, have performed neuropsychological tests, evaluating global intellectual function (Rosen's cognitive scale, WAIS digit symbol, WAIS similitude and WMS logical memory tests) and visuospatial functions (Rey lacunar pictures, Poppelreuter and Benton line orientation tests).
  • (10) Taking into account the studies of cortical maps in Bradypus and the notable similitude of the pattern of neocortical sulci between Bradypus and H. indifferens, the possible representation of the primary sensitive and motor somatic areas, secondary sensitive somatic area, visual and auditory areas are inferred.
  • (11) The history of particle clearance was studied in lungs of mice serially sacrificed at intervals up to 14 months following single exposures to an aerosol of submicronic, particulate, iron oxide used as a similitude for atmospheric dust.
  • (12) This similitude brings further support to the notion that subcortical damage of the lenticular nuclei can induce a frontal-like syndrome.
  • (13) These similitudes proved to be critical sites (according to Critic).
  • (14) Since similitudes between oncogene products and growth factors have been observed, it was of interest to compare the inhibitory effect of IDF45 upon the stimulation of DNA synthesis induced either by serum or by pp60-src.
  • (15) Cross reactions obtained are rather equal to the degree of similitude between these mycoplasma species.
  • (16) The similitude with some of the behavioural aspects or depressive of hebephrenic states is emphasized.
  • (17) Their similitude with other reported intracellular calcareous bodies occurring in malakoplakia, infectious orchitis (Michaelis-Guttman' bodies or calcosphaerites), in beryllium granulomas (conchoid bodies) and sarcoidosis (Schaumann bodies) is discussed.
  • (18) The similitude between ageing and hypertension, the contraposition that is seen in youngsters, and other metabolic alterations test this model of winkessel.
  • (19) We show that attempts based on mechanical similitude to set a dosage that would be equivalent across species (for example, from mouse to humans) lead to ambiguous results.
  • (20) Similitudes with solitary cyst of long bones have even been underlined, but no reports exist in the literature of the double localization: maxillary and extra-maxillary.