English-Spanish translations for liken

• comparar
  El proyecto de constitución del Presidente Giscard d'Estaing se podría comparar con una gran empresa de mudanzas. Chairman Giscard d'Estaing's draft constitution may be likened to a large removal firm.
  Al contrario, al comparar al autor de los crímenes con las víctimas y calificar el asesinato de «legítima defensa», se exonera al Gobierno israelí y se le infunde ánimos. On the contrary, likening the perpetrator to the victims and calling murder the right of defence both exonerates and encourages the Israeli Government.
  Entonces veríamos que, con esta estructura europea, nos enfrentamos a algo que se podría comparar con un vehículo, cuya parte delantera se compone de un Porsche y la trasera de una bicicleta. We would then see that, with this European construct, we are dealing with something that could be likened to a vehicle, the front of which consists of a Porsche while the back consists of a bicycle.

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

Related words

• likeness
• likened
• unlikeness