noun
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(usually in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
example
Tell me your likes and dislikes.
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An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
verb
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To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
example
I like hamburgers.
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To please.
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To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
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To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
example
I like to go to the dentist every six months.
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To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
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To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
example
He liked to have been too late.
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To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
example
I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
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To liken; to compare.
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To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
example
I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.
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(with 'would' and in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.
example
We could go to the museum if you like.
Examples of like in a Sentence
The people did not like this.
He does not like to do anything else.
I can't imagine what he was thinking to hide a thing like that from you.
Far up in the air was an object that looked like a balloon.
I don't like you to talk like that.
Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.
He wouldn't like that.
Like a bird let loose, his horse leaped forward.
The Internet does not, like the car, have a single essence.
She would like to have so much attention.
He was dressed plainly, and, with his reddish-brown hair and mud-bespattered face, looked like a hard- working countryman just in from the backwoods.
It looks just like her!
Well, whatever we do, I'd like to do it as a family.
Of course, she knew Alex well enough now to know he didn't like people to hand out information about him.
He was not petted and spoiled like many other princes.
Do I like fish?
At last he saw something in the darkness that looked like two balls of fire.
I hope to have a love like yours some day.
The words rush through my hand like hounds in pursuit of a hare which they often miss.
Now it seemed more like a vacation.
I like doing things for myself.
The sides of the tunnel showed before them like the inside of a long spy-glass, and the floor became more level.
It meant a good deal to him to secure a home like this.
They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings.
But when a great scholar like Professor Kittredge interprets what the master said, it is "as if new sight were given the blind."
Around it were arranged, like the five points of a star, the other five brilliant balls; one being rose colored, one violet, one yellow, one blue and one orange.
The mountain before them was shaped like a cone and was so tall that its point was lost in the clouds.
I like this goal, and I would like to do it as well, but in bits, not bites.
Dulce looked nothing like Alex.
It seems like you've become the resident veterinarian and the vacation is over.
It wasn't like him to be petty.
I did not like his plan, for I wished to enter college with my class.
On the 1st of April it rained and melted the ice, and in the early part of the day, which was very foggy, I heard a stray goose groping about over the pond and cackling as if lost, or like the spirit of the fog.
But I don't know anything about dressing or acting like a lady.
That's more like it.
Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.
Would you like to kiss me? she whispered almost inaudibly, glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from excitement.
He was going to like the clothes she bought for the trip.
You're not like him, and I'm glad.
I'd like to talk to you.
That sounds like your kind of logic - always thinking of the other person first.
When I get my thoughts arranged in good order I do not like to have anything upset them or throw them into confusion.
The vase had a very small neck, and spread out at the top like a bowl.
All around him were the cows of the abbey, some chewing their cuds, and others like their master quietly sleeping.
Yes, I am, but please don't let us do like that....
But he was kind and gentle only to those of his regiment, to Timokhin and the like--people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past.
I'd like to, but if it's too much trouble...
All right, but I don't like being kept in the dark about all this.
They're cold and flabby, like cabbages, in spite of their prettiness.
Others had flat noses, protruding eyes, and ears that were shaped like those of an elephant.