Like

verb likes · liking · liked · like

1. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. I like reading books.
2. archaic, transitive To please (same meaning as above but with subject and object reversed). I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature.
3. obsolete To derive pleasure [with of or by or with ‘from someone or something’]. 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.
4. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity. I like to go to the dentist every six months.
5. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for. I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
6. To want, desire. See also would like. Would you like a cigarette?
7. Internet, transitive To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote. I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.
8. informal To be prone to. Too bad this cheese likes to stick to the pan and ruin the whole meal.
9. informal Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept. This self-service checkout doesn't seem to like my credit card.
10. archaic To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly. He liked to have been too late.
11. obsolete To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition). You like well, and bear your years very well.
12. obsolete To liken; to compare. And like me to the peasant boys of France.

noun likes · lak

1. in plural Something that a person likes (prefers). Tell me your likes and dislikes.
2. Internet An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet. Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

adjective more like · liker · most like · likest · lak

1. Similar. My partner and I have like minds.
2. Scotland, Southern US Likely; probable. But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
3. Scotland, Southern US, usually inclined (to), prone (to). He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.

adverb more like · most like · lak

1. colloquial, dialectal, obsolete Likely. DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit. CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough.
2. archaic, rare In a like or similar manner. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

noun likes · lak

1. countable, sometimes, uncountable Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.
2. countable, uncountable The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side. to play the like

Similar: ilk

conjunction lak

1. colloquial As, the way. 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
2. colloquial, usually As if; as though. It looks like you've finished the project.
3. colloquial, usually Such as. Why don’t we do something useful like clean the kitchen?

preposition lak

1. Similar to, reminiscent of. Folk like that I just can’t brook.
2. Typical of. It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.
3. Approximating. Popcorn costs something like 10 dollars at the movies.
4. In the manner of, similarly to. He doesn't act like a president.
5. Such as; including. It's for websites like Wikipedia.
6. As if there would be. It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
7. Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something. I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like? –He's intelligent and handsome.

particle lak

1. Geordie, Ireland, Scotland, Teesside, colloquial A delayed filler. He was so angry, like.
2. colloquial Indicating approximation or uncertainty. There were, like, twenty of them.
3. colloquial Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened. I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
4. colloquial A discourse marker used to highlight or put focus on new information or a new development in a story. She was, like, sooooo happy.
5. colloquial Introduces an exemplification or demonstration of the previous statement And after a while I began seeing how un-hard the whole scene was. Like they had some kind of raffle + all the hard guys were looking to see if they won + then they announced everyone with a motorcycle cap or a cowboy hat on could get a free drink. How high school!

Similar: be all, go

verb likes · liking · liked · lak

1. dialectal, intransitive To be likely. 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.

proper noun Likes

1. A surname.