English Dictionary

like

/laɪ̯k/

verb

To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. / (transitive, archaic) To please. / (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.

I like to go for a walk in the park.

意味（1）

To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

I like hamburgers.

意味（2）

(transitive, archaic) To please.

I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature.

意味（3）

(obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.

And therefore it is the best way, if you like of it, to examine these taken from experiments touching the Earth, and then proceed to those of the other kind.

意味（4）

To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.

I like to go to the dentist every six months.

意味（5）

(obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).

You like well, and bear your years very well.

意味（6）

(archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.

He liked to have been too late.

意味（7）

To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.

意味（8）

(obsolete) To liken; to compare.

And like me to the peasant boys of France.

意味（9）

(Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.

意味（10）

(with 'would' and in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.

Would you like a cigarette?

意味（11）

(computing, chiefly in the negative) To accept as an input.

We were frustrated that our seeming innocent choice for a team name was rejected by the censor. Apparently somewhere in the name is a word that the censor doesn’t like.