Liken

Pronunciation

enPR: lÄ«'kÉ™n, IPA: /ËˆlaÉªkÉ™n/
Rhymes: -aÉªkÉ™n
Homophones: lichen

Origin

From Middle English liken ("to compare; to be comparable, be equal; to form; to be appropriate"), equivalent to like + -en.

Full definition of liken

Verb

(transitive, followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).

2013-06-21, Chico Harlan, Japan pockets the subsidy …, Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.

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