analogy
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4.9
- noun
- /əˈnælədʒi/
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analogía
- So when you look at shark mitigation, if we use the analogy of road safety, 60 years ago, the road toll was a lot higher.
- reasoning by analogy
- use analogies
- draw analogies
So I use the analogy of a building.
- So I use the analogy of a building.
- Now I'm going to use an analogy of love if I may.
- Now a great analogy for this is the rug.
- So he uses the analogy of computer memory.
- The the training analogy is a good place to start.
- And so I, I often use the analogy of living on a sphere.
- And so we used analogies as a shortcut to the brain.
- What is the Jaguar an analogy for a blockage.
- This is an ancient analogy which is all too literal.
- I think that's the best analogy I've heard from what I understand.
- Isn't it an analogy for life?
Examples
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So he uses the analogy of computer memory.
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So I use the analogy of a building.
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It's a really bad analogy, but think about it.
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I will then come back to discuss an interesting analogy of a supply chain management model.
Academic text (1999) -
I'll give you one example again using the analogy of sound.
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To use a baseball analogy, life has thrown you a curve ball.
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The music-as-language analogy suggests that music learning follows the natural stages of language development.
Academic text (2012) -
Oral traditions have the ability to act as effective analogies for understanding past practices and beliefs.
Academic text (2017) -
The teacher used an analogy of a tree to explain how families grow and change.
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To clarify his point, he provided an analogy comparing a team to a well-oiled machine.
Synonyms
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1.8
To look at two or more things to find how they are the same and how they differ
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2.7
A likeness between things that makes them seem related
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4.4
A similarity between two things or events
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4.2
A close match that shows two things are similar
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A likeness in how two things look or behave
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5.3
Comparing two things to show how they are similar
A way of comparing unlike things in writing using similes or metaphors
Compounds
- Specialized
The idea that human words describe God only partly because God is very different
How Similar
Surface Forms
Etymology
Analogy comes from the Greek parts ana- 'again' and logos 'reason' or 'word', and it once meant a kind of matching or 'proportion' between things. So an analogy is a comparison that shows how two things are alike to help explain or understand something.