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Proverb

it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all

point of likeness (between); resemblance; similarity

mockingbird

pseudorandom number

Mathematics

homothetic ratio; similitude ratio; ratio of magnification; dilation factor; scale factor

Chemistry

analog; analogue

copycat

Proverb

to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell

Carassius auratus grandoculis (subspecies of goldfish)

Proverb

like father, like son; a child who does not resemble their parents is a changeling

Fishing

lure; artificial bait

pseudo-family

pseudo; quasi; artificial; simulated

Medicine

suspected case (of a disease)

rough or approximate calculation

para-cholera; suspected case of cholera

Linguistics

pseudo-direct object

exposure therapy

Mathematics; Physics

approximate solution

degree of similarity

near money

pseudo-random number generator

Biology

analogous organ

Computing

pseudo-random number sequence