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In stores, signs in Spanish -- such as one hawking a remote control that reads "No se complique la vida -- Todo en un solo control universal" (Don't complicate your life -- everything in one universal control) -- are scattered across the sales floor.

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  1. adjective Of this kind: a single parent, one of many such people in the neighborhood.
  2. adjective Of a kind specified or implied: a boy such as yourself.
  3. adjective Of a degree or quality indicated: Their anxiety was such that they could not sleep.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English swylc; see swo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also soch, soche; dial. sich, sech, Scots sic, sick, sik, etc.; from Middle English such, suche, soche, siche, also unassibilated sik, sike, contracted, with loss of w, from swich, swech, swuch, swych, swyche, itself contracted, with loss of l, from swilch, an assibilated form of swilc, swilk, swylk, from Anglo-Saxon swylc, swilc, swelc = Old Saxon sulik = OFries. sullik, sellech, selik, selk, salk, sulch, sek, suk = Middle Dutch solick, solck, sulck, Dutch zulk = Middle Low German solik, sollik, sollek, solk, Low German sölk, sulk, suk = Old High German sulīh, solīh, solh, Middle High German sulich, solicit, solch, German solch = Icelandic slīkr (later Middle English slike) = Old Swedish salik, Swedish slik = Norwegian slik = Danish slig = Gothic (Moesogothic) swaleiks, such; from Anglo-Saxon, etc., swā, so, + -līc, an adjective formative connected with gelīc, like, līc, form, body: see so and like, -ly, and cf. which, Scots whilk and thilk, of similar formation with such, and each, which contains the same terminal element.
 

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