resembleとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɛmb(ə)l/

動詞

resemble (三人称単数 現在形 resembles, 現在分詞 resembling, 過去形および過去分詞形 resembled)

1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
   • Shakespeare

     We will resemble you in that.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230b.

     But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

   The twins resemble each other.

2. (transitive, now まれに, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

3. (obsolete, transitive)  To counterfeit; to imitate.
   • Holland

     They can so well resemble man's speech.

4. (obsolete, transitive)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of H. Bushnell to this entry?)

同意語

• mirror
• duplicate
• look like

関連する語

• resemblance