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likeable — Everyday, meaning 1: Likeable means easy to like; pleasant and friendly.↗ Example: Our new neighbour is very likeable.↗ · The hero of the book is brave and likeable.↗ · Ben is likeable because he is always kind.↗ · Even the villain is a bit likeable in this film.↗ · She has a likeable smile.↗ · He tried hard to be likeable at his new school.↗

likelihood — Everyday, meaning 1: How likely something is to happen; the chance or probability of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) A measure of how probable an event is, from impossible to certain.↗ Example: What is the likelihood of rolling a 6?↗ · The likelihood of rain tomorrow is high.↗ · In all likelihood, the bus will be late again.↗ · Wearing a helmet reduces the likelihood of a head injury.↗ · Put the events on the likelihood scale from impossible to certain.↗ · The likelihood of getting heads on a coin is one half.↗ · It was therefore with great surprise and annoyance that he now learned of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper carrying out his task with success.↗

likely — Everyday, meaning 1: Probably going to happen or be true.↗ e.g. "It's likely to rain."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Suitable or seeming right.↗ e.g. "a likely place".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an adverb, probably.↗ e.g. "She will most likely win."↗ Example: It is likely to snow tomorrow.↗ · Rolling a number less than 6 on a die is likely.↗ · He is likely to be late.↗ · That's a likely place to find frogs.↗ · She will most likely win the race.↗ · Accidents are more likely when you rush.↗ · "Will you lend me your bike?" "↗ Not likely!"↗ · A tossed coin is equally likely to land on heads or tails.↗ · "How am I likely to be cheerful?↗ · The entire Greek account of Pythagoras and his philosophy is unreliable and most likely is a forgery.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Even if such an early date cannot be established, it appears likely that scholars will hereafter attribute the discovery of positional arithmetic to the Babylonians instead of the Hindoos."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

liken — Everyday, meaning 1: To say that one thing is like another; to compare them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used with «to»: «liken A to B» means say A is similar to B.↗ Example: The poet likens the sea to a hungry dog.↗ · Scientists liken the heart to a pump.↗ · Many people liken the city to a giant ant nest.↗ · He was often likened to his famous grandfather.↗ · Our teacher likened the brain to a busy library.↗ · The story likens growing up to climbing a mountain.↗ · I wouldn't liken a cat to a dog; they are so different.↗ · To whom then will ye liken God?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.18, JPS 1917)↗ · What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?↗ (Writings LAM.2.13, JPS 1917)↗ · To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Holy One.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.25, JPS 1917)↗

likeness — Everyday, meaning 1: Being alike or similar; how much one thing looks like another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A picture, drawing or statue that looks like a real person.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Being like something, or a picture or image of someone.↗ Example: There is a strong likeness between the twins.↗ · The painting is a good likeness of the queen.↗ · I can see the family likeness in your smile.↗ · The sculptor made a likeness of the famous runner.↗ · The police drew a likeness of the thief.↗ · Is the drawing a good likeness?↗ Not really!↗ · It is not the same Pivi—but there is a kind of likeness.↗ · In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; (Torah GEN.5.1, JPS 1917)↗ · the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, (Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.↗ (Prophets EZK.1.5, JPS 1917)↗ · In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;↗ (Torah GEN.5.1, JPS 1917) · That was my idea, and there stands his likeness."↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes, which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)

liketh — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «liketh» means «likes», a form of «like».↗ e.g. To like something is to enjoy it or think it is good.↗ Example: he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him.↗ (Torah DEU.23.16, JPS 1917)

likewise — Everyday, meaning 1: Likewise means in the same way: «Watch me and do likewise.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Likewise means also or as well, when adding a similar point.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «Likewise» as a reply means «the same to you» or «I feel the same».↗ Example: Watch how I fold the paper, then do likewise.↗ · «Nice to meet you.» — «Likewise.»↗ · Jen wore a hat, and her brother did likewise.↗ · Tom left early; likewise, Sue went home.↗ · The first sum is easy; likewise the second.↗ · Cats need water; likewise, dogs do.↗ · A man attempts to do likewise, but fails.↗ · And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.↗ (Torah DEU.15.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me.↗ (Torah EXO.22.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that was outmost in the first set; likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second set.↗ (Torah EXO.36.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn.↗ (Writings NEH.5.10, JPS 1917)↗ · for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.↗ (Writings ECC.7.22, JPS 1917)↗ · and to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even; (Writings 1CH.23.30, JPS 1917)↗

lilac — Everyday, meaning 1: A lilac is a bush or small tree with large bunches of small, sweet-smelling purple, pink or white flowers in spring.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lilac is a pale purple colour.↗ Example: The lilac by the gate is in flower.↗ · Her bedroom walls are painted lilac.↗ · The scent of lilac drifted through the window.↗ · She wore a lilac dress to the wedding.↗ · White lilac grows in Gran's garden.↗ · Bees buzzed around the lilac blossom.↗ · There were damask Roses, and yellow Roses, lilac Crocuses, and gold, purple Violets and white.↗

lilo — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) An inflatable mattress: a plastic bed filled with air, used for floating on water or for sleeping on when camping.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lilo is also a girl's name, as in the film «Lilo & Stitch».↗ Example: We blew up the lilo with a foot pump.↗ · She floated on a lilo in the pool.↗ · Never take a lilo into the sea; the wind can blow you away.↗ · I slept on a lilo when we went camping.↗ · The lilo got a hole and went flat.↗ · Lilo and her alien friend Stitch live in Hawaii.↗

lily — Everyday, meaning 1: A tall plant grown from a bulb, with large trumpet-shaped flowers, often white, orange or pink.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A water lily: a plant with round floating leaves and flowers on ponds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lily is a common girl's first name; in word problems Lily is a person who has, buys or shares things.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal, old) «Lily-white» means very white or, in a stiff or ironic way, completely innocent: «He is not lily-white in this matter.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (euphemism, old) Lilies are flowers for funerals, so «send lilies» can softly mean someone has died.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual, Cockney rhyming slang, rare) «Lily» can stand for «lily-white» (= «light» or «bright»); a pupil may never hear it.↗ Example: The frog jumped from one lily pad to another.↗ · Mum put white lilies in a vase.↗ · Lily pollen stains clothes orange.↗ · Water lilies float on the pond.↗ · Lilies are very poisonous to cats, so keep them away.↗ · We cut open a lily to find its stamens and pistil.↗ · Lilies grow from bulbs planted in the ground.↗ · My friend Lily has a dog called Max.↗ · Lily has 12 stickers and gives 4 to Sam.↗ · going to Lily's after school, she's got 3 new games (casual)↗ · Lily, you muppet, you've dropped half of them!↗ (rough, friendly)↗ · A pupil, hereinafter referred to as Lily, possesses 12 stickers and relinquishes 4; determine the quantity remaining.↗ (formal exam)↗ · The Queen gathered together the lilies.↗ · I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.↗ (Writings SNG.2.1, JPS 1917)↗ · As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.↗ (Writings SNG.2.2, JPS 1917)↗ · My beloved is mine, and I am his, that feedeth among the lilies.↗ (Writings SNG.2.16, JPS 1917)↗

limb — Everyday, meaning 1: A limb is an arm or a leg.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A limb is a large branch of a tree.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Out on a limb» means alone, with an idea others do not support.↗ Example: Humans have four limbs.↗ · A starfish can grow back a lost limb.↗ · Don't climb on that dead limb of the tree.↗ · He has an artificial limb after an accident.↗ · The storm broke a limb off the oak tree.↗ · My limbs ached after swimming.↗ · She went out on a limb to help him.↗ · My broken limb should excite your pity.↗ · And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.↗ (Prophets JDG.19.29, JPS 1917)↗

lime — Everyday, meaning 1: A small round green citrus fruit with sour juice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A bright yellow-green colour, also called lime green.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A white powder made from limestone, used in building, farming and making cement.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A lime tree (UK): a tall tree with heart-shaped leaves, also called a linden.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Bird-lime is a sticky substance spread on twigs to catch birds.↗ Example: She squeezed a lime over the fish.↗ · Limes are smaller and sourer than lemons.↗ · The new football boots are bright lime green.↗ · We breathed into limewater and it went cloudy.↗ · The farmer spread lime on the field.↗ · A tall lime tree shades the village square.↗ · The pop star loves being in the limelight.↗ · There are 5 limes in each bag, and Mum bought 3 bags.↗ · A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch birds.↗ · And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.↗ (Prophets AMO.2.1, JPS 1917)↗

limerick — Everyday, meaning 1: A limerick is a short, funny poem of five lines, with lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyming together and lines 3 and 4 rhyming together (AABBA).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (place) Limerick is a city and county in Ireland.↗ Example: There once was a cat from Peru, / who dreamed he was eating a shoe.↗ / He woke with a fright, / in the middle of the night, / and found that his dream had come true.↗ · Edward Lear wrote many limericks.↗ · A limerick has five lines.↗ · The rhyme scheme of a limerick is AABBA.↗ · Our class wrote limericks about our pets.↗ · Limerick is a city in Ireland on the River Shannon.↗

limestone — Everyday, meaning 1: Limestone is a soft, usually grey or white sedimentary rock made mostly from the shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures.↗ Example: Limestone is a sedimentary rock.↗ · We found a fossil shell in the limestone.↗ · Vinegar makes limestone fizz.↗ · Rain slowly dissolves limestone and makes caves.↗ · Many old buildings are made of limestone.↗ · Stalactites hang from the roof of limestone caves.↗ · Chalk is a kind of limestone.↗ · Limestone is ground up to make cement.↗

limit — Everyday, meaning 1: A limit is the greatest (or smallest) amount that is allowed or possible: a speed limit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A limit is the edge or end of a place or area: the city limits.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To limit something is to keep it to a certain amount: limit screen time.↗ Example: The speed limit here is 30.↗ · There is a time limit of one hour for the test.↗ · Mum limits my screen time.↗ · The kitchen is off limits during cooking.↗ · You must be 120 cm tall to go on this ride, that is the height limit.↗ · I have reached my limit, I cannot eat any more.↗ · Limit each answer to three sentences.↗ · With hard work, the sky is the limit.↗ · The highest Crown is Kether, the First Sephira, the first emanation from the Ain Suph Aur, the Limit- less LightC (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · § 10 The ten digits and zero, their appearance is like light- ning; to their aim there is no limit.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · This is in per- fect harmony with the Pythagorean formula that all numbers originated from two elements, the limited (the one, 1,) and the unlimited (the Zero, 0).↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy.↗ (Prophets EZK.43.12, JPS 1917)↗