Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
3. PARTIAL RELATION
878 words | Chapter 9
#17. Similarity.—N. similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude,
semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement &c. 23;
analogy, analogicalness[obs3]; correspondence, homoiousia[obs3],
parity. connaturalness[obs3], connaturality[obs3]; brotherhood, family
likeness. alliteration, rhyme, pun. repetition &c. 104; sameness &c.
(identity) 13; uniformity &c. 16; isogamy[obs3]. analogue; the like;
match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double,
counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the
old block, par nobile fratrum[Lat], Arcades ambo[obs3], birds of a
feather, et hoc genus omne[Lat]; gens de meme famille[Fr]. parallel;
simile; type &c. (metaphor) 521; image &c. (representation) 554;
photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking
resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance. V. be similar
&c. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of;
approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate &c. 19;
favor, span [U. S.]. render similar &c. adj.; assimilate, approximate,
bring near; connaturalize[obs3], make alike; rhyme, pun. Adj. similar;
resembling &c. v.; like, alike; twin. analogous, analogical; parallel,
of a piece[Fr]; such as, so; homoiousian[obs3]. connatural[obs3],
congener, allied to; akin to &c. (consanguineous) 1 1. approximate,
much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark,
such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing. exact &c.
(true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very
image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes
d'eau[Fr]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare;
instar omnium[Lat], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like. Adv. as
if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in
speculum[Lat]. Phr. et sic de similibus[Lat]; tel maitre tel valet[Fr];
tel pere tel fils[Fr]; like master, like servant; like father, like
son; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block
#18. Dissimilarity.—N. dissimilarity, dissimilaritude[obs3];
unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance[obs3]; divergence,
variation.; difference &c. 15; novelty, originality; creativeness;
oogamy[obs3]. V. be unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (differ) 15; bear no
resemblance to, differ toto coelo[Lat]. render unlike &c. adj.; vary
&c. (diversify) 140. Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of
a different kind &c. (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel;
unprecedented &c. 83; original. nothing of the kind; no such thing,
quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium
quid[Lat], as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale" [Hamlet]; as
different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth;
lucus a non lucendo[Lat]. diversified &c. 16a. Adv. otherwise. Phr.
diis aliter visum[Lat]; "no more like my father than I to Hercules"
[Hamlet].
#19. Imitation.—N. imitation; copying &c. v.; transcription;
repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction;
mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint. mockery, mimicry;
simulation, impersonation, personation; representation &c. 554;
semblance; copy &c. 21; assimilation. paraphrase, parody, take-off,
lampoon, caricature &c. 21. plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c.
(falsehood) 544; celluloid. imitator, echo, cuckoo|, parrot, ape,
monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate. V.
imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo,
reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel. mock, take off, mimic,
ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act &c. (drama) 599; represent
&c. 554; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.
follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps
of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the
example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book,
strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate. Adj.
imitated &c. v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on. paraphrastic;
literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking.
Adv. literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim[Lat], sic,
totidem
verbis[Lat], word for word, mot a mot[Fr]; exactly, precisely.
Phr. like master like man; "like - but oh! how different!"
[Wordsworth]; "genius borrows nobly" [Emerson]; "pursuing echoes
calling
'mong the rocks" [A. Coles]; "quotation confesses inferiority"
[Emerson]; "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery".
#20. Nonimitation.—N. no imitation; originality; creativeness.
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invention, creation.
Adj. unimitated[obs3], uncopied[obs3]; unmatched, unparalleled;
inimitable &c. 13; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated;
exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon[Lat], unexampled.
#20a. Variation.—N. variation; alteration &c. (change) 140.
modification, moods and tenses; discrepance[obs3], discrepancy.
divergency &c. 291[obs3]; deviation &c. 279; aberration; innovation. V.
vary &c. (change) 140; deviate &c. 279; diverge &c. 291; alternate,
swerve. Adj. varied &c. v.; modified; diversified &c. 16a.
#21. [Result of imitation.] Copy.—N. copy, facsimile, counterpart,
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effigies, effigy, form, likeness.
image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance,
ectype[obs3],
photo offset, electrotype; imitation &c. 19; model, representation,
adumbration, study; portrait &c. (representation) 554; resemblance.
duplicate, reproduction; cast, tracing; reflex, reflexion[Brit],
reflection; shadow, echo.
transcript[copy into a non-visual form], transcription;
recording,
scan.
chip off the old block; reprint, new printing; rechauffe[Fr];
apograph[obs3], fair copy.
parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie[obs3],
paraphrase.
[copy with some differences] derivative, derivation, modification,
expansion, extension, revision; second edition &c. (repetition) 104.
servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake
&c.(deception) 545; pasticcio[obs3].
Adj. faithful; lifelike &c. (similar) 17; close, conscientious.
unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
#22. [Thing copied.] Prototype.—N. prototype, original, model,
pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type;
archetype, antitype[obs3]; protoplast, module, exemplar, example,
ensample[obs3], paradigm; lay-figure. text, copy, design;
fugleman[obs3], keynote; die, mold; matrix, last, plasm[obs3];
proplasm[obs3], protoplasm; mint; seal, punch, intaglio, negative;
stamp. V. be an example, be a role model, set an example; set a copy.
Phr. a precedent embalms a principle [Disraeli]; exempla sunt
odiosa[Lat].
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