analogy
11analogy — ► NOUN (pl. analogies) 1) a comparison between one thing and another made to explain or clarify. 2) a correspondence or partial similarity. DERIVATIVES analogical adjective …
12analogy — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ appropriate, apt, good, useful ▪ close, obvious, perfect (esp. AmE) ▪ A close analogy with the art of singing can be made …
13analogy — n. 1) to draw, make an analogy 2) a close; superficial analogy (there is a close analogy between these two phenomena) 3) an analogy between; to, with 4) by analogy (to reason by analogy) 5) on the analogy of (to say thunk on the analogy of sunk)… …
14analogy — /euh nal euh jee/, n., pl. analogies. 1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. 2. similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and… …
15analogy — 01. ESL students often try to draw [analogies] between English and their mother tongue, but it is not always possible. 02. Looking for an honest man in politics is [analogous] to looking for a virgin in a brothel. 03. His use of diagrams,… …
16analogy — a|nal|o|gy [əˈnælədʒi] n plural analogies [U and C] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Probably from Greek analogia, from analogos; ANALOGOUS] something that seems similar between two situations, processes etc analogy with/to/between ▪ analogies between… …
17analogy — A respect in which one thing is similar to another. The analogical extension of terms is the way in which a term covers similar things: people, bottles, and rivers have mouths. Shops, boxes, verdicts, ports, strings of a violin, questions, roads …
18analogy */ — UK [əˈnælədʒɪ] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms analogy : singular analogy plural analogies a comparison between two situations, processes etc that is intended to show that the two are similar He uses the analogy of the family to… …
19analogy — Analogies, much employed in the Bible, are a means of reasoning by the use of parallel cases, and ‘analogy’ is therefore an umbrella term covering similes, metaphors, typology, and allegory. Thus Paul refers to Christ as a ‘rock’ (1 Cor. 10:4),… …
20analogy — noun (C, U) a comparison between two situations, processes etc that seem similar, or the process of making this comparison: drawing/draw an analogy (=make a comparison): analogies between human and animal behaviour | by analogy (with) (=using an… …
