close resemblance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcloseandresemblance
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close
adjective
uk/kləʊs/us/kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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resemblance
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈzem.bləns/us/rɪˈzem.bləns/
the fact that two people or things look like each other or are similar in some ...
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(Definition ofcloseandresemblancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofclose resemblance
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There was acloseresemblancebetween the two models over the projected linear area depicted by our model, except at temperature extremes.
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This description bearscloseresemblanceto the speech of aphasia patients who have suffered severe left-hemispheric stroke.
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The entity described bearscloseresemblanceto so-called anatomically corrected malposition, which is also characterized by concordant ventriculo-arterial connections.
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The computationally most efficient simplified expressions bear acloseresemblanceto the results of uniform plasma theory, but differ from them in their interpretation.
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That kind of thinking is as dangerous as reliance on national stereotypes, to which indeed it bears an uncomfortablycloseresemblance.
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In our case, we mean acloseresemblanceof a robot to a biological organism, at the anatomical, physiological, functional or behavioral level.
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Closeresemblanceor relevant similarity is not determined by coordinated activity or convention but by reason.
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As a result, the techniques used in planning bear acloseresemblanceto techniques that have been developed in scheduling.
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If test modes keepcloseresemblanceto their unperturbed counterpart, solutions of (3.1)-(3.3) may be expected to represent the dynamics well.
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Hence, a successful contraction bears acloseresemblanceto an expansionary fiscal contraction.
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As can easily be seen from this brief survey, the plans of the natural histories bear acloseresemblance to one another but are by no means exactly alike.
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A characteristic of linguistic variation that has emerged in distinct fields of enquiry is that variation within a single grammar bears acloseresemblanceto variation across grammars.
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The geometry and distribution of the solitons in the simulations have acloseresemblanceto the pattern observed in the proton imaging data at late times.
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It bore acloseresemblanceto a swamp.
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The man said that it was his brother, thereby seeking to disclaim thecloseresemblancebetween the man in the photograph and himself.
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It seems to me that the two cases have a verycloseresemblance.
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I will take the year 1925, when the output bears verycloseresemblanceto the approximate output of 1937.
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