different between resembles vs resemble

English

Pronunciation

Verb

resembles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of resemble

Anagrams

• emberless

Spanish

Verb

resembles

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of resemblar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of resemblar.

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.