similar

Modifying Another Word

• broadly: North American Van Lines offers broadly similar services in the US.
• remarkably: All of which was remarkably similar to the scoring at rackets.
• strikingly: Languages are strikingly similar as well as strikingly different.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• do: You'd have to do something similar to this to do a deep copy of a HashMap.

Modifies a noun

• property: The reference rent system also makes mockery of market values with apparently similar properties given vastly varying values by the rent officer.
• vein: In similar vein, members of the public may very occasionally pose a threat to staff.
• situation: We do not believe that a similar situation exists within Fair Funding.
• manner: In a similar manner, it is possible to allocate the same handset of voting equipment to a student.
• fashion: The contents of registers can be altered in a similar fashion.
• pattern: Beth Brook, 11 April 2006 My interview at UCL followed a very similar pattern.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: The only fail-safe appeared similar to proprietes electriques des.
• look: The first phase of Building 1 may have looked similar to the reconstructed timber building at Bede's World displayed here.
• seem: Do not give this medicine to anyone else, even if their symptoms seem similar to yours.
• remain: The incidence of daily heroin use remained similar to that found in both previous surveys at under 1 % .

Preposition: in

• appearance: The object was similar in appearance to a burning green flare, the kind that is commonly used in the Air Force.
• respect: The cultivation of Malmaisons is similar in many respects to the modern perpetual flowering carnation.
• size: It is similar in size to the rare Peregrine falcon.
• style: Pepys was effectively a minister in his own right, similar in style to Colbert, Louis XIV's Minister of the Marine.
• shape: Although they are described as being similar in shape to an azalea flower, they look more like a partially opened carnation.
• nature: The deposits above and behind this were very similar in nature, and contained large patches of dense clay.