different between slike vs alike

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English sliken, from Old English *sl?can (“to crawl, slink”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?kan? (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sley?- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Cognate with German Low German slieken (“to slink, crawl”), German schleichen (“to creep, crawl, slink, sneak”), Old English sl?cian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”). Related to sleek, slick, slitch, sleech, sludge.

Verb

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

1. (intransitive) To crawl; creep; slide.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sliken, slikien, from Old English sl?cian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”). See above.

Verb

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

1. (transitive) To make sleek or smooth.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *sl?ken, from Old English sl?can (“to strike”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?kan? (“to hew, hammer, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sley?- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old Frisian sl?c (“a shock, blow”), Middle Low German slîken (“to beat”), Old English sli??, sli? (“beater, hammer, mallet”), Latin lig?, lig?nis (“hoe, mattock”).

Verb

slike (third-person singular simple present slikes, present participle sliking, simple past and past participle sliked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To rend asunder; cleave.

Anagrams

• Kiles, Kisel, Likes, kiles, kisel, likes, silke

Middle English

Etymology 1

From sliken (“smoothen, deceive”).

Noun

slike

1. Alternative form of slyke

Etymology 2

From Old English sl?cian.

Verb

slike

1. Alternative form of sliken

Norwegian Bokmål

Determiner

slike

1. plural of slik

Norwegian Nynorsk

Determiner

slike pl

1. plural of slik

English

Etymology

From Middle English alike, alyke, alyche, aleche, and earlier ilike, ilik, ylike, yliche, ylich, elik, ?elic, from Old English ?el?? (“like; alike; similar; equal”) and Old English onl??, anl?? ("like; similar; equal"; > Middle English anlike, onlich (compare German ähnlich), reinforced by Old Norse álíkr, from Proto-Germanic *gal?kaz (“alike, similar”). Cognate with Scots elyke, alyke (“like, alike”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like, alike”), West Frisian lyk, gelyk (“like, alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German Low German liek, gliek (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Swedish lik (“like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??la?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Adjective

alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

1. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

   The twins were alike.

Derived terms

• alikeness

Translations

Adverb

alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

1. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

Derived terms

• share and share alike

Translations

Anagrams

• Kalie, alkie