underlying similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunderlyingandsimilarity
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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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similarity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition ofunderlyingandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This similarity between the performance of young normal children and the affected family members may reflect anunderlyingsimilarityof their linguistic systems.
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All of these policy areas are analysed in some considerable detail to reveal theunderlyingsimilarityof approach.
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The perceptual dimensionsunderlyingsimilarityjudgments between pairs of timbres are based on the amplitude pattern of the spectra.
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It is possible that theunderlyingsimilaritymay not be so much the detailed mechanism of turbulence production, but a more general characteristic of the saturated states of subcritical instabilities.
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The present findings thus provide further support for the suggestion made in the above publications that there are common, stabilizing, determinant factors operating to produce thisunderlyingsimilarity.
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The atomized layouts of developments, and the mix and match of external form and materials, strain to conceal theunderlyingsimilaritybetween the products on offer.
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Thus, when the papers hit the stand, we see anunderlyingsimilaritybetween them.
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This represents a wide range of cultural and environmental variation as well as some underlying similarities associated with life in rural areas.
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We believe that such theoretical controversies are best resolved by careful and precise formulation of the different approaches, so that the fundamental and underlying similarities and differences can be assessed.
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This had ensured a wide variety of worn clothing with underlying similarities.
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Splitting often leads to distinctions without difference, ornate and fussy categories, and failure to see underlying similarities.
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By comparing different cultures' mythologies, scholars try to identify underlying similarities and/or to reconstruct a protomythology from which those mythologies developed.
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