semblance

sem·blance

S0248900 (sĕm′bləns)n.1. An outward or token appearance: "Foolish men mistake transitory semblance for eternal fact" (Thomas Carlyle).2. A representation; a copy.3. The barest trace; a modicum: not a semblance of truth to the story.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from sembler, to resemble; see semblable.]

semblance

(ˈsɛmbləns) n1. outward appearance, esp without any inner substance or reality2. a resemblance or copy[C13: from Old French, from sembler to seem, from Latin simulāre to imitate, from similis like]

sem•blance

(ˈsɛm bləns)

n. 1. outward aspect or appearance. 2. an assumed or unreal appearance; show. 3. the slightest appearance or trace. 4. a likeness, image, or copy. 5. a spectral appearance; apparition. [1250–1300; < Middle French, <sembl(er) to seem (see resemble)]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	semblance - an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"gloss, color, colourappearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thingcolor of law, colour of law - a mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law; "the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights"simulacrum - an insubstantial or vague semblanceface value - the apparent worth as opposed to the real worthguise, pretence, pretext, pretense - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"camouflage, disguise - an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories"verisimilitude - the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
	2.	semblance - an erroneous mental representation illusionfantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"appearance - a mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police"irradiation - the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark backgroundphantom limb - the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated
	3.	semblance - picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thinglikenessIdentikit, Identikit picture - a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person soughtikon, picture, icon, image - a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"portrait, portrayal - any likeness of a person, in any medium; "the photographer made excellent portraits"

semblance

noun appearance, show, form, air, figure, front, image, bearing, aspect, mask, similarity, resemblance, guise, façade, pretence, veneer, likeness, mien They had nursed Peter back to some semblance of health.

semblance

noun1. A deceptive outward appearance:cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, show, veil, veneer, window-dressing.Slang: put-on.2. A slight amount or indication:breath, dash, ghost, hair, hint, intimation, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, touch, trace, whiff, whisper.Informal: whisker.

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semblance

(ˈsembləns) noun an appearance or likeness. I have to coach them into some semblance of a football team by Saturday. 外觀酷似 外表