different between resemble vs counterpart

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, Old French resembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”), synchronically analyzable as re- +? semble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?mb(?)l/
• Hyphenation: re?sem?ble

Verb

resemble (third-person singular simple present resembles, present participle resembling, simple past and past participle resembled)

1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230b.

2. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

3. (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.

   • They can so well resemble mans speech.

4. (obsolete, transitive)To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
   • 1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion

     they resemble themselves to the swans

Synonyms

• mirror
• duplicate
• look like

Related terms

Translations

Spanish

Verb

resemble

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of resemblar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of resemblar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of resemblar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of resemblar.

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1451, originally as countre part "duplicate of a legal document", from Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of part?re (“to divide”)). Equivalent to counter- +? part.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt??p??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt??p??t/

Noun

counterpart (plural counterparts)

1. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

   Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
2. (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
3. One which resembles another
4. One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
5. (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.

Synonyms

• equivalent
• homolog
• opposite number
• pendant

Related terms

• counterbalance
• counterpoint
• countersign
• counterweight
• complement
• partner

Translations

Verb

counterpart (third-person singular simple present counterparts, present participle counterparting, simple past and past participle counterparted)

1. Counterbalance.