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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
unlike
un·like preposition, adjective BrE [ˌʌnˈlaɪk] NAmE [ˌʌnˈlaɪk] preposition 1. different from a particular person or thing • Music is quite unlike any other art form. • The sound was not unlike that of birds singing. 2. used to contrast sb/sth with another person or thing • Unlike most systems, this one is very easy to install. 3. not typical of sb/sth • It's very unlike him to be so late. Opp: ↑like Word Origin: Middle English: perhaps originally an alteration of Old Norse úlíkr; compare with Old English ungelīc ‘not of the same kind, not comparable’. Language Bank: contrast Highlighting differences ▪ This survey highlights a number of differences in ▪ the way that teenage boys and girls in the UK spend their free time. One of the main differences between ▪ the girls and ▪ the boys who took part in the research was the way in which they use the Internet. Unlike ▪ the girls, who use the Internet mainly to keep in touch with friends, the boys questioned in this survey tend to use the Internet for playing computer games. ▪ The girls differ from ▪ the boys in that ▪ they tend to spend more time keeping in touch with friends on the telephone or on social networking websites. Compared to ▪ the boys, the girls spend much more time chatting to friends on the telephone. ▪ On average the girls spend four hours a week chatting to friends on the phone. In contrast ▪, very few of the boys spend more than five minutes a day talking to their friends in this way. ▪ The boys prefer competitive sports and computer games, whereas ▪ / while ▪ the girls seem to enjoy more cooperative activities, such as shopping with friends. ▪ When the girls go shopping, they mainly buy clothes and cosmetics. The boys, on the other hand ▪, tend to purchase computer games or gadgets. Language Banks at ↑generally, ↑illustrate, ↑proportion, ↑similarly, ↑surprising adjective not before noun (of two people or things) different from each other • They are both teachers. Otherwise they are quite unlike. compare ↑alike, ↑like Word Origin: [unlike] Middle English: perhaps originally an alteration of Old Norse úlíkr; compare with Old English ungelīc ‘not of the same kind, not comparable’.
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