A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation
A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way. It is probably easier to make an analogy between the courses of the planets, and two trains travelling in the same direction. analogies something that seems similar between two situations, processes etc analogy with/to/between
reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed
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
A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly 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
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"
an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
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