analogy

analogy

1. analogia

Liittyvät sanat: analogical

Synonyymisanakirja

analogy

vertailu, vertaaminen, analogia, vastaavuus, päätelmä, johtopäätös, päättely, analogiaoppi, usko, uskonnollinen vakaumus.

Englannin sanakirja

analogy englanniksi

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

2. 1841, w: Ralph Waldo Emerson|Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, ch. 6:

Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

3. 1869, w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, ch. 18:

Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?

4. 1901, w:Edith Wharton|Edith Wharton, The Valley of Decision, ch. 12:

The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.

5. 1983, "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953636,00.html How to Write Programs," Time, 3 Jan.:

Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.

6. 2002, w:Harlan Coben|Harlan Coben, Gone for Good, ISBN 9780440236733, http://books.google.ca/books?id=ppjCHXrMa50C&pg=PA75&dq=analogy+subject:%22fiction%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2001&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2009&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&cd=225v=onepage&q=analogy%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false p. 75:

A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.

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