What's the difference between likeliness and similarity?

Likeliness


Definition:

  • (n.) Likelihood; probability.
  • (n.) Suitableness; agreeableness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
  • (2) The more the Scots push for a referendum on independence, the likelier it is they will continue to lose influence at Westminster.
  • (3) Mourinho is likelier to face another fine rather than a ban given off-field offences generally prompt off-field sanctions.
  • (4) Based on these studies the likeliness of a role for quinolinic acid in the etiology of HD is evaluated.
  • (5) Jermain Defoe would be a valuable addition in attack but QPR seems a likelier destination for the former Tottenham striker, so Leicester are looking at.
  • (6) This seemed all the likelier minutes later when John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor , wandered in and took a seat on the other side of Eagle.
  • (7) Nor does the Prism article specifically refer to the finding that drones are 10 times likelier to kill civilians than manned aircraft are.
  • (8) The likelier outcome is that a victorious Putin would have many friends in Europe, and that the sanctions on Russia would be allowed to lapse.
  • (9) With Mata having a poor game and Rooney constantly misplacing or mistiming his passes, United were becoming becalmed in midfield in the late summer sunshine, and Adnan Januzaj seemed a likelier choice to inject more urgency and invention.
  • (10) In the 'private' sector, 69 percent of the services were delivered by GPs and 23 percent by psychiatrists were more likely to have had 'public' sector activity than were those seen only by GPs; also once in the 'public' sector, they were likelier to have had in patient as well as outpatient treatment.
  • (11) They fought back from a dreadful start to boss the second half of the first half, equalise early in the second period and look the likelier team to win until Kane completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot and Jeff Schlupp put through his own goal after Kasper Schmeichel had blocked from Christian Eriksen.
  • (12) Great Barrier Reef bleaching made 175 times likelier by human-caused climate change, say scientists Read more Underlying the finding that reefs will continue to survive is the assumption that agreements made at Paris to keep global warming to “well below 2C” are successful.
  • (13) For example, a female leader in danger is much likelier to face pressure from her family, or even from male colleagues, to withdraw from activism.
  • (14) Before the programme, only 6.5% of girls reported being self-employed; afterwards, they were 32% likelier to be working.
  • (15) My body needs to shut down and heal up.” It seems as if a loan spell at a Premier League club, and a permanent return to England in January, is likelier than another season in Toronto.
  • (16) Women in Ghana are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Britain, and children are 13 times likelier to die before the age of five.
  • (17) The younger the age at first birth, the likelier that the first marriage will dissolve.
  • (18) New data has revealed unsafe levels of radiation outside the 12-mile exclusion zone, increasing the likeliness that entire towns will remain unfit for habitation.
  • (19) The likeliness of formation of a hydantoin-related compound in the aniline-adulterated oil is evidenced and its role as possible toxic agent in TOS is proposed.
  • (20) Attention is paid to the likeliness of isolating aberant strains of S. gallinarum with deviations from the morphology of colonies and their antigenic and biochemical characteristic typical of the species.

Similarity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (2) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (3) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
  • (4) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
  • (5) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (6) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
  • (7) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (8) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
  • (9) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
  • (10) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
  • (11) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
  • (12) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
  • (13) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (14) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
  • (15) Methanosphaera stadtmanae reduces methanol to CH4 in a similar way as Methanosarcina barkeri.
  • (16) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
  • (17) Similarly, doses of deferoxamine at the time of the study were not different.
  • (18) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
  • (19) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (20) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.