About The Word Analogy
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Analogy
Analogy Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Analogy?
[n] drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
[n] an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others Synonyms | Synonyms for Analogy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Analogy: accordance | affinity | agent | agreement | alignment | alikeness | allegory | alliance | alternate | alternative | ambiguity | aping | approach | approximation | assimilation | backup | balancing | change | changeling | closeness | coextension | collineation | community | comparability | comparative anatomy | comparative degree | comparative grammar | comparative judgment | comparative linguistics | comparative literature | comparative method | compare | comparing | comparison | concurrence | conformity | confrontation | confrontment | contrast | contrastiveness | copy | copying | correlation | correspondence | counterfeit | deputy | distinction | distinctiveness | double | dummy | equal | equidistance | equivalent | equivocation | equivoque | ersatz | exchange | fake | fill-in | ghost | ghostwriter | identity | imitation | likeness | likening | locum tenens | makeshift | matching | metaphor | metonymy | mimicking | nearness | next best thing | nondivergence | opposing | opposition | parallelism | parity | personnel | phony | pinch hitter | proportion | proxy | relation | relief | replacement | representative | resemblance | reserves | ringer | sameness | second string | secondary | semblance | sign | similarity | simile | similitude | simulation | spares | stand-in | sub | substituent | substitute | substitution | succedaneum | superseder | supplanter | surrogate | symbol | synecdoche | tergiversation | third string | token | trope of comparison | understudy | utility player | vicar | vice-president | vice-regent | weighing See Also | comparing | comparison | illation | inference Analogy In Webster's Dictionary \A*nal"o*gy\, n.; pl. {Analogies}. [L. analogia, Gr. ?,
fr. ?: cf. F. analogie. See {Analogous}.]
1. A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness
between things in some circumstances or effects, when the
things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning
enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light
is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before
hidden.
Note: Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an
analogy between these objects, or one thing has an
analogy to or with another.
Note: Analogy is very commonly used to denote similarity or
essential resemblance; but its specific meaning is a
similarity of relations, and in this consists the
difference between the argument from example and that
from analogy. In the former, we argue from the mere
similarity of two things; in the latter, from the
similarity of their relations. --Karslake.
2. (Biol.) A relation or correspondence in function, between
organs or parts which are decidedly different.
3. (Geom.) Proportion; equality of ratios.
4. (Gram.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or
general rules of a language; similarity of origin,
inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like,
as opposed to {anomaly}. --Johnson.
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