Word Finder - analogy

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A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.

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The proportion or the equality of ratios.

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(grammar) The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.

He didn't welcome the analogy.

My dad can use cars to create an analogy for almost anything.

I had a difficult time understanding his analogy.

Now the analogy between this change and the change from the Roman patriciate to the later Roman nobilitas is obvious.

Parables are a kind of analogy that Jesus used often in the Bible.

By analogy the term "crusade" is also given to any campaign undertaken in the same spirit.

I remembered the flying saucer analogy.

Herrmann's appeal to Kant's moral teaching is in close analogy to the more thoughtful forms of intuitionalist ethics.

It expounds in germ the whole of his later theory of analogy.

Deduction or syllogism is superior to analogy and induction in combining premises so as to involve or contain the conclusion.

In fact, the analogy between the alkyl groups and metallic elements forms a convenient basis from which to consider many derivatives.

On the analogy between this case and that of the interface between two solutions, Nernst has arrived at similar logarithmic expressions for the difference of potential, which becomes proportional to log (P 1 /P 2) where P2 is taken to mean the osmotic pressure of the cations in the solution, and P i the osmotic pressure of the cations in the substance of the metal itself.

It is fortunate that this should be so clearly marked in his epistles, because it enables us to argue by analogy to the other writers.

One interesting analogy communicated by Professor Rapson, may, however, be cited from the Bhagavad-gita, iv.

Analogy and experience make us assume it to be omnipresent.

Thirdly we have the limiting cases of this in the inductive syllogism 5ui 7riu'mw, 7 a syllogism in the third figure concluding universally, and yet valid because the copula expresses equivalence, and in analogy 8 in which, it has been well said, instances are weighed and not counted.

But the analogy does not end here.

You can draw analogy to two people holding the key for the same lock.

Davy, passing through Paris on his way to Italy at the end of 1813, obtained a few fragments of iodine, which had been discovered by Bernard Courtois (1777-1838) in 1811, and after a brief examination by the aid of his limited portable laboratory perceived its analogy to chlorine and inferred it to be an element.

The analogy with stress appears complete; the motion of the "driving link" of a machine is communicated to all the other parts, modified or unchanged as the case may be, by the stresses in those parts; but the actual setting in motion of the driving link itself cannot come about by stress, but must have for its production force obtained directly from the expenditure of some form of energy.

The literary processes thus involved find an analogy in the original connexion between 2 Sam.

To the extreme development of the carapace in Laura, as compared with the segmented body, it would be difficult to find among crustaceans any analogy more striking than that of the great ovarial expansions in Nicothoe astaci, the little copepod parasite of the common lobster.

In its properties it shows some analogy to the halogen acids, since it forms difficultly soluble lead, silver and mercurous salts.

That's a piss-poor analogy, he said as he opened another can and changed the subject.

He'd finally found a deity who used an analogy he understood.

Good analogy, except that was only part of the issue.

Only the (Z) isomer was formed in analogy to the N, O ketene acetals.

A simple analogy may help to explain why right-thinking capitalists are so affronted by this phenomenon.

I've extended the Indian food analogy even further and come up with the acronym PEPPER.

What was wrong with pursuing the analogy to its proper conclusion, and using green to mark the proper degree of preparedness?

To borrow a business analogy, the NHS has gone from a bull market to a bear market.

To continue the building analogy, first you need to include all the ' bricks ' .

Thus 08 has its unique nature as well as finer details described by analogy to all other hexagrams.

Although this case concerned arbitration it should be applied by analogy to adjudication.

There was no way ethnographic analogy could intrude, and no way that my environment could fool me into thinking otherwise.

In the Biblical perspective, man's love is an imperfect analogy, marred by sin, of God's perfect and self-giving love.

Let's return to the football manager analogy for a second.

You might even say that human fatherhood was created as an analogy to help us understand God's fatherhood.

Click to enlarge Click to enlarge The analogy of the ocean liner was too strong to resist.

To return to the pie chart analogy, you would not draw a pie chart of population density but one of total population.

An analogy of giving birth to a baby rhino might give you some idea.

He followed Ptolemy closely, enlarging on his distinction between geography and chorography, and expressing the artistic analogy in a rough diagram.

A good analogy would be a medical student in training to be a surgeon would need to know the lingo in an operating room.

He is an irresistible force who tries to shift an immovable object, an analogy that's made literal.

The variation of wing lift with angle of attack is predicted using the leading-edge suction analogy.

Up to this point the first chapter was entirely dedicated to highlighting the ubiquity of analogy in cognitive operations.

Fischer next suggested that enzymes can only hydrolyse those sugars which possess a molecular structure in harmony with their own, or to use his ingenious analogy, "the one may be said to fit into the other as a key fits into a lock."

In this form a law prescribing one year's fallow in seven may have been anciently observed, but it scarcely originated from the analogy of a seventh day of rest.

This condition has been predicated of man, both body and soul, in many senses; and the term is used by analogy of those whose deeds or writings have made a lasting impression on the memory of man.

As he maintains that probability may and ought to be our guide in life, he is content with proving in the first chapter of the Analogy that " a future life is probable from similar changes (as death) already undergone in ourselves and in others, and from our present powers, which are likely to continue unless death destroy them."