-alikecomb. form

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: alike adv.

Etymology: < alike adv., chiefly after lookalike n.

Originally U.S.

Forming nouns and adjectives.

1. With a verb, denoting someone or something that performs the action expressed by the verb in a similar or identical manner to another.See also lookalike n., sound-alike n., workalike adj. and n.

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1935 Los Angeles Times 2 Oct. i. 7/1 (advt.) Stauffer Twins ‘Look Alikes Sing Alikes’.

1949 Life 7 Nov. 95/2 (caption) Short skirts made by dress-alikes Margie Friel and Cookie Moore cost $1.50.

1964 Flying Aug. 84/2 The LearJet wasn't built by any one stormy genius, driving herds of look-alike, think-alike coolies.

1978 N.Y. Times 25 Apr. 37/3 A think-alike, act-alike, vote-alike politician.

1984 Texas Monthly Nov. 106/2 A smoky taste-alike to Smithfield ham.

1994 L. Landy Exper. Music Notebks. 138 Taking a look at any number of the periodical Keyboard (or hundreds of read-alikes) is adequate proof.

2007 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 22 1 d The playalike duo of Derrick Byars and Shan Foster scored 47 points between them in the double-overtime dismissal of the third-seeded Cougars.

2010 R. McDonald When Colts Ran (2011) xiii. 272 Colts had been thrown down and left to make his way on the earth among a bunch of rural live-alikes.

2. With a noun (esp. a personal name), denoting someone or something that resembles what is specified by the first element.

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1969 Food Product Devel. June 86/3 A dehydrated nugget, closely resembling ham and processed from vegetable protein..is being marketed by Worthington Foods as Ham-Alike.

1984 Adweek (U.S.) (Nexis) 13 Aug. (Eastern ed.) By mid-1985,..Atari will introduce a $1,000 high-powered home computer nicknamed ‘Mac-alike’.

1994 J. H. Sobel Taking Chances ii. 40 Fred would expect there to be relatively fewer smokers within the class of Fred-alikes.

2009 B. Hoskyns Lowside of Road viii. 470 Ad agency McCann Erickson, who'd employed yet another ‘Waits-alike’ singer to record a version of Brahms' ‘Wiegenlied’.

2011 P. M. Fackler in R. S. Fortner & P. M. Fackler Handbk. Global Communication & Media Ethics I. vi. 99 The media which kept masses in Russia subservient to the Czars, and then the Stalinist czar-alikes.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	-alike
释义	-alikecomb. form Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: alike adv. Etymology: < alike adv., chiefly after lookalike n. Originally U.S. Forming nouns and adjectives. 1. With a verb, denoting someone or something that performs the action expressed by the verb in a similar or identical manner to another.See also lookalike n., sound-alike n., workalike adj. and n. ΚΠ 1935 Los Angeles Times 2 Oct. i. 7/1 (advt.) Stauffer Twins ‘Look Alikes Sing Alikes’. 1949 Life 7 Nov. 95/2 (caption) Short skirts made by dress-alikes Margie Friel and Cookie Moore cost $1.50. 1964 Flying Aug. 84/2 The LearJet wasn't built by any one stormy genius, driving herds of look-alike, think-alike coolies. 1978 N.Y. Times 25 Apr. 37/3 A think-alike, act-alike, vote-alike politician. 1984 Texas Monthly Nov. 106/2 A smoky taste-alike to Smithfield ham. 1994 L. Landy Exper. Music Notebks. 138 Taking a look at any number of the periodical Keyboard (or hundreds of read-alikes) is adequate proof. 2007 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 22 1 d The playalike duo of Derrick Byars and Shan Foster scored 47 points between them in the double-overtime dismissal of the third-seeded Cougars. 2010 R. McDonald When Colts Ran (2011) xiii. 272 Colts had been thrown down and left to make his way on the earth among a bunch of rural live-alikes. 2. With a noun (esp. a personal name), denoting someone or something that resembles what is specified by the first element. ΚΠ 1969 Food Product Devel. June 86/3 A dehydrated nugget, closely resembling ham and processed from vegetable protein..is being marketed by Worthington Foods as Ham-Alike. 1984 Adweek (U.S.) (Nexis) 13 Aug. (Eastern ed.) By mid-1985,..Atari will introduce a $1,000 high-powered home computer nicknamed ‘Mac-alike’. 1994 J. H. Sobel Taking Chances ii. 40 Fred would expect there to be relatively fewer smokers within the class of Fred-alikes. 2009 B. Hoskyns Lowside of Road viii. 470 Ad agency McCann Erickson, who'd employed yet another ‘Waits-alike’ singer to record a version of Brahms' ‘Wiegenlied’. 2011 P. M. Fackler in R. S. Fortner & P. M. Fackler Handbk. Global Communication & Media Ethics I. vi. 99 The media which kept masses in Russia subservient to the Czars, and then the Stalinist czar-alikes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < comb. form1935
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