and the like
11
3.5
- idiom
:
y cosas por el estilo
- Why does the Left favor government, privacy, conservation, and the like?
You can try to verify them and the like so you can do learning against them.
- You can try to verify them and the like so you can do learning against them.
- That means attacks on persons I believe and the like.
- The camera's filming the dashboard, a little bit of the windscreen and the like, the heater and the vents and all that stuff.
- Roots, beets, carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, purple potatoes and the like along with little bits of honey and dark chocolate.
- The men's magazines were just bad copies of Playboy Escapade and the like.
- There's very difficult to get the full effect of immunization, substance use screening, cancer screening and the like in a single year.
- It was just differences in phenotype, in blood, hair type, bone, skin color and the like.
- Our employees, our students can find out what one another think through the use of cell phones and text messaging and the like.
- One that is very focused on individualism, radical self-reliance, the bootstraps narrative and the like.
- So sure, we may not be, we may not be the most disciplined, but it's also that the apps and the like are also taking advantage of that, right?
- So they know what to do to get paid out on settlements and the like on from multiple employers.
Examples
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In general, belief dissemination often depends on institutions, on gatekeepers of information, on technologies of communication, and the like.
Academic text (2001) -
People speak in terms such as "national systems of innovation" and the like.
Academic text (1995) -
You mean we actually went away from those policies, such as bailouts and the like?
Blog text (25) -
Buying expensive clothes, watches, food and the like doesn't make you cool.
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Sometimes we exercise our control over judges, politicians, businessmen, and the like simply to prove that we can.
Fiction book (1995) -
For sure, the bishops do not challenge the politicians on greed, exploitation, and the like.
Blog text (31) -
Many universities and colleges offer courses on Marxism, socialism, military politics, and the like, but very few offer any on democracy.
Academic text (1993) -
Monks translated and copied books and passed along knowledge of Latin, mathematics, geography, history, theology, and the like.
Fiction book (1998) -
Instead, they see a growing dependence on welfare, increased inner-city crime, an epidemic of out-of-wedlock births, and the like.
Academic text (1995) -
You will have to prove through tax returns and the like that your parents cannot qualify on their own.
Synonyms
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2.0
A thing like the one just mentioned
99
4.1
Other things or people that are alike
16
1.0
Use to refer to other things like those already mentioned
8
1.4
To talk about other similar things without naming them
8
5.7
Other things like the ones mentioned
6
7.7
Other similar things not mentioned
2
3.3
Shows there are other similar items in a list
1
7.9
Other similar things you could mention
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'and' adds items while 'the like' means 'things of the same kind', so a learner who knows the constituent meanings can infer 'and similar things/people'. The structure is a simple, cross-linguistically common way to indicate similarity, with 'the' as a definite article adding no idiomatic opacity.
Etymology
The phrase and the like may come from long ago when like was used as a word for a 'similar thing'. Saying and the like is a short way to mean 'and similar things' at the end of a list.