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  1. transitive verb To find pleasant or attractive; enjoy.
  2. transitive verb To want to have: would like some coffee.
  3. transitive verb To feel about; regard: How do you like her nerve!
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  • My mother's mother didn't speak English, so she used to tell us stories in Italian -- like the one about the mano pelusa -- the hairy hand. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
  • The collapse of language into abbreviations, arbitrary conditions of brevity, self-enforced infantilism and the like are attempts to import the the inflexible conditions of reality, against which we shape ourselves, to the online world, which lacks such conditions and threatens us with an amorphous and intolerable incontinence of identity. —  PopMatters
  • It's no big secret that parents, law enforcement, judges and the like are all up in arms about the latest teen fad: sexting (re: sending naughty photos of yourself (re: nekkid) to your peers via cell phone). —  Victoria Advocate stories: News
  • Greedy businessmen, slimy politicians and the like were the hapless targets of his art wrath. —  Laughing Squid
  • However, in Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981), the Supreme Court overruled the Patent Office and held that, though an algorithm and the like are abstract and unpatentable, the fact that an otherwise patentable process is carried out on a computer does not make it unpatentable. —  Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Middle English liken, from Old English līcian, to please; see līk- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from like, similar (from Old English gelīc and Old Norse līkr) and from like, similarly (from Old English gelīce, from gelīc, similar); see līk- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Middle English liken, to compare, from like, similar; see like2.

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  1. from Middle English like, lyke, in southern use assibilated lich, liche, lyche, from Anglo-Saxon līc, the body (the living body, but also sometimes a dead body), = Old Saxon līk = OFries. līk = Dutch lijk = Middle Low German līk, līch, neuter, = Old High German līh, n., feminine, Middle High German līch, līche, feminine, German leiche, feminine, the body, a dead body, = Icelandic līk = Swedish lik = Danish lig, a dead body, = Gothic (Moesogothic) leik, the body, flesh. From this noun, besides the assibilated form lich, and the compounds likam and likewake, lichwake, lichgate, etc., are ult. derived like, a. and n., (prob.) like, v. and n., with their derivatives, and the suffixes -ly, -ly, as well as the terminations of each, every, such (Scots sic), thilk, which (whilk), etc.
  2. from Middle English like, lyke, lijk, lyk, also assibilated lich, liche, lyche; not, as stated in the dictionaries, from Anglo-Saxon *līc, like, there being no such Anglo-Saxon adjective, but, by apheresis, in later Middle English, from the earlier Middle English ilike, ilyke, ilyche, alike, alyke, alyche, etc., from Anglo-Saxon gelīc, etc., like (gelīca, n., one like), the numerous Middle English forms being merged in English alike: see alike, where the relation to like, Anglo-Saxon līc, body, is explained.
  3. from Middle English like, lyke, by apheresis for alike: see alike, adv., and cf. like, a.
  4. from like, adv.; being in part an abbreviation of like as.
  5. = Dutch lijken = Middle Low German liken = German gleichen = Gothic (Moesogothic) galeikon, liken, compare; from the adjective: see like, a. Cf. liken.
  6. from Middle English liken, lyken, from Anglo-Saxon līcian, līcan, please (= Old Saxon līkōn = OFries. līkia = Dutch lijken, suit, = Old High German līchēn, līchan, Middle High German līchen, be like, suit, please, = Icelandic līka, please, like, = Gothic (Moesogothic) leikan, also in comp. galeikan, please); prob. from līc, body, form: see like. The exact transition of sense is not clear; apparently ‘be the form’ (for a person—governing the dative), i. e. the form or thing desired. It is usually explained as directly from like, a., ‘to be like or suitable’ (for a person); but the adjective does not exist in the earliest tongues (Gothic (Moesogothic), Anglo-Saxon, and Old High German) except in the full form (Gothic (Moesogothic) galeiks, Anglo-Saxon gelīc, Old High German galīh), from which the verb without the prefix (Gothic (Moesogothic) leikan, Anglo-Saxon līcian) could hardly be derived, except by assuming an apheresis impossible at this early period.
  7. from like, v.
  8. from like, a., 3.
 

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