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Less common meanings

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    have a crushverbtransitive

    To have warm or romantic feelings for someone.

    Do you really like him, or are you just being nice to him?

    I think he likes you.

    UsageI really like him can mean romantic feelings, but less strong than love.

    Similarlove, fancy

    Oppositedislike, hate

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    click to approveverbtransitive

    To press the button that shows you approve of a post online.

    I liked my friend's photo on Instagram.

    Don't forget to like and subscribe.

    UsageUse unlike to remove a like you gave earlier.

    Oppositeunlike, dislike

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    click to approvenouncountable

    A click that shows you approve of something posted online.

    Her post got a thousand likes in a day.

    Every like helps the post reach more people.

    UsageSay a post got a hundred likes.

    Oppositedislike

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    mid fillerparticlecolloquial

    A filler word in casual speech, used when guessing a number or before the key part, as in 'it was, like, huge'.

    The line at the coffee shop was, like, all the way out the door.

    It's, like, a mile from here.

    UsageIn formal writing, say about three hours instead of like three hours.

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    nouncountable or uncountable

    A person or thing that is similar to another one.

    There were sweets, chocolates and the like.

    We can't afford the likes of him.

    UsageSay and the like at the end of a list, meaning and similar things.

    Similarequal, match, counterpart

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    preferencenouncountableplural

    Something you like, usually in likes and dislikes.

    The app asks about your likes and dislikes before suggesting new music.

    My little brother's likes are pizza, dinosaurs, and staying up late.

    Similarfavorite, preference

    Oppositedislike

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    preposition

    About or roughly, usually used after 'something'.

    Popcorn costs something like ten dollars at the movies.

    It took something like three hours.

    UsageSomething like ten dollars is fine anywhere. Like ten dollars is very casual.

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    preposition

    Typical of someone, what you would expect from them.

    It would be just like him to forget.

    It's not like her to be late.

    UsageSay it's not like her to be late when she is usually on time.

    Oppositeunlike

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    accept (computer)verbcolloquialtransitive

    To accept something, used about a machine or computer and mostly with 'not'.

    The checkout doesn't seem to like my card.

    The website doesn't like passwords with spaces.

    Similaraccept

    Oppositereject

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    tend toverbcolloquialtransitive

    To tend to do something, said of a thing as if it had wishes.

    My old laptop likes to freeze right when I need it most.

    These shoes like to come untied.

    UsageSay my laptop likes to freeze when it often does.

    Similartend

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    end fillerparticledialectalGeordieIrelandScotlandTeesside

    A word added at the end of a sentence to make it softer.

    I'm a bit tired after the long drive home, like.

    I didn't mean it, like.

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    adjectivearchaicScotlandSouthern US

    In old or regional speech, likely to do or be something.

    The old man said the river was like to flood before morning.

    She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils.

    1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the TideHere, like means likely, so it was likely she would escape.

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    odds areparticle

    Likely, probably, in like enough and like as not.

    If we leave this late, we'll miss the train, like as not.

    Like as not we'll go anyway.

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    nearly didverbdialectalintransitive

    To be likely, or in the past, to come close to doing something.

    He liked to have died of the cold that winter.

    I like to fell off my chair laughing.

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    just asadverbarchaic

    In the same way, usually followed by 'as'.

    Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

    1611, The Holy Bible, King James VersionHere, like as means in the same way as.

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    noun

    In golf, the stroke that brings you level with your opponent's count.
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    verbarchaic

    To please someone.

    His countenance likes me not.

    1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear
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    verbobsolete

    To take pleasure in something, used in old writing with 'of', as in 'like of it'.

    And therefore it is the best way, if you like of it, to examine these taken from experiments touching the Earth, and then proceed to those of the other kind.

    1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Systems of the World
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    verbarchaic

    To almost do something, or nearly have it happen.

    He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.

    1760, Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Oxford
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    verbobsolete

    To look or seem a certain way.

    You like well, and bear your years very well.

    c. 1598, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”
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    verbobsolete

    To say one thing is similar to another.

    And like me to the peasant boys of France.

    1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI
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    adverbobsolete

    Probably.

    DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit. CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough.

    1598, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”