superficial resemblance

collocation in English

meaningsofsuperficialandresemblance

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superficial
adjective
uk
/ˌsuː.pəˈfɪʃ.əl/us
/ˌsuː.pɚˈfɪʃ.əl/
disapproving
(of a person) never thinking about things that are serious ...
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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 ofsuperficialandresemblancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsuperficial resemblance

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English terms such as 'rent' or 'lease' have been employed to denote practices which bear only asuperficialresemblanceto those denoted by these terms.
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I observe in circulation an object which bears asuperficialresemblanceto a newspaper.
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But it does not follow that proposals bearing asuperficialresemblanceto that good plan are necessarily therefore good.
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There is asuperficialresemblancebetween the two.
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First, it has asuperficialresemblanceto last year's settlement.
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It may, bysuperficialresemblance, attract and soothe the innocent, but it stops short and there is nothing behind it.
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One is to lump together as many as possible different animals or plants under a species or genus, so long as they show even asuperficialresemblanceto one another.
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Despite asuperficialresemblanceto plants, they are actually animal skeletons or shells.
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The reed contrabass is sometimes confused with the contrabass sarrusophone, to which it bears somesuperficialresemblance.
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This mineral's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it asuperficialresemblanceto gold, hence the well-known nickname of "fool's gold".
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The oak marble is frequently called the oak apple due to thesuperficialresemblanceand the preponderance of the oak marble gall in the wild.
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The hinges come to a point, asuperficialresemblanceto most (phylogenetically unrelated) bivalve mollusk shells.
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Some were characterized by thick trunks and pinnately compound leaves that bore asuperficialresemblance to those of cycads, differing primarily in stomatal arrangement.
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Both species have a pied plumage and a long tail, giving them asuperficialresemblanceto a magpie.
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This is despite the convergence andsuperficialresemblanceof this species with snakes.
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As many species possess a pink body coloration and scales arranged in rings, they have asuperficialresemblanceto earthworms.
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Unlike the fuel, the tyres bear only asuperficialresemblanceto a normal road tyre.
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The rhombic enneacontahedron is a zonohedron with asuperficialresemblanceto the rhombic triacontahedron.
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