Chapter Words Expressing Abstract Relations of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

3°. Partial Relation

• Similarity (Substantives), resemblance, likeness, similitude, affinity, semblance, approximation, parallelism 216, analogy, brotherhood, family likeness; alliteration, assonance, repetition 104 reproduction.

An analogue, copy 21, the like, facsimile, match, double, pendant, fellow, pair, mate, twin, alter ego, parallel, counterpart, brother, sister; simile, metaphor 521, resemblance, imitation 19.

(Phrases). One's second self; Arcades ambo; birds of a feather; et hoc genus omne; a chip of the old block; the very moral of.

(Verbs). To be similar, like, resembling, etc., to resemble, bear resemblance, favour, approximate, parallel, match, imitate, take after 19, represent, simulate, personate, savour of, have a flavour of, favour, feature.

To render similar, assimilate, approximate, reproduce, bring near, copy, plagiarise.

(Adjectives). Similar, like, alike, resembling, twin, analogous, analogical, parallel, allied to, of a piece, such as, connatural, congener, matching, conformable, on all fours with.

Near, something like, such-like, mock, pseudo, simulating, representing, approximating, a show of, a kind of, a sort of.

Exact, accurate, true, faithful, close, speaking, life-like, breathing.

(Phrases). True to nature; to the life; the very image; the picture of; for all the world like; as like as two peas; comme deux gouttes d'eau; as like as it can stare; ab uno disce omnes; instar omnium; birds of a feather; noscitur a sociis; cast in the same mould; a chip of the old block; like father, like son.

(Adverbs). As if, so to speak, as it were, quasi, as if it were, just as, after, in the fashion or manner of, à la.

• Dissimilarity (Substantives), unlikeness, dissimilitude, diversity; novelty 123, originality 515, disparity.

(Verbs). To be unlike, etc., to vary 20.

To render unlike, to diversify, vary, etc.

(Phrase). To strike out something new.

(Adjectives). Dissimilar, unlike, disparate, of a different kind, class, etc. 75; diversified, novel, new 123, unmatched, unique.

(Phrases). Nothing of the kind; far from it; cast in a different mould; as like a dock as a daisy; "very like a whale"; as different as chalk is from cheese.

• Imitation (Substantives), assimilation, copying, transcription, transcribing, following, repetition 104, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction.

Mockery, mocking, mimicry, echoing, simulation, counterfeiting, plagiarism, forgery, fake, fakement, acting, personation, impersonation, representation, parody, paraphrase, travesty, burlesque, semblance, mimesis.

Result of imitation: see Copy 21.

Instrument of imitation: camera, gramophone, phonograph, mimeograph, dictograph, diagraph, pantograph, etc.

Photography, etc.

An imitator, mimic, impersonator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking-bird.