English-Dutch translations for liken

  • vergelijken
    Ik zou het willen vergelijken met de Kollumer Kat uit "Alice in Wonderland" , omdat je alleen maar haar grijns ziet. I would liken it to the Cheshire Cat because all you can see is its smile. De mensen in China vergelijken deze ramp met eerdere catastrofen, die gepaard gingen met belangrijke historische veranderingen in dat land. The people of China liken this disaster to earlier cataclysms accompanying major historical changes in that country. U geeft mensen die de Europese Unie vergelijken met de communistische Raad voor wederzijdse hulp, Comecon, en Brussel met Moskou goede argumenten in handen. You are lending weight to the arguments of all those who compare the European Union to the socialist Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, and who liken Brussels to Moscow.

Definition of liken

  • To compare; to state that is like (something else

Examples

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

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