单词 | analogous |
释义 | analogousadj. 1. a. Characterized by correspondence to; resembling, or bearing comparison with; parallel, equivalent; comparable, similar. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adjective] > corresponding or analogous accordingc1300 proportionate?a1425 proportionablec1443 correspondentc1460 agreeable1540 answerable1551 match1551 analogical1577 suitablea1586 parallela1610 analogal1610 correlativea1626 matching1630 analogic1638 analogous1644 commensurate1644 samea1687 companion1766 homologous1837 to match1838 homological1849 homologic1880 homothetic1886 tallied1895 matched1925 1644 S. Marshall Serm. Baptizing Infants 46 If they say, though infants have not Faith, yet they may have that which is Analogous to faith, the same say we. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 96 Analogus relations concerning other plants, and such as are of neare affinity unto this. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iv. 72 We are in a State of Trial,..analogous, or like to our moral and religious Trial. 1781 J. Dawson Doctr. Philos. Necessity 16 The reasoning by which philosophical necessity is proved, is in a great measure analogous to that made use concerning impulse and motion. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xliii. 316 The rest of Sicily had experienced disorders analogous in character to those of Syracuse. a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr. (1879) I. v. 171 Two resembling objects are said..to be analogous, when one of them belongs to some class expressly or tacitly referred to and the other does not. 1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals viii. 201 This so-called tickling of the mind is curiously analogous with that of the body. 1957 Encycl. Brit. IV. 218/1 The function of the television camera is analogous to that of the microphone in sound broadcasting. 1997 N. Walter Humanism 88 There are still old arguments whether Humanism is a religion or a philosophy, a ‘life-stance’ analogous with religion or a world-view opposed to religion. 2005 Independent 16 Apr. 37/3 One might speculate wistfully about the emergence in India of a distinctive form of English analogous to medieval Latin. b. Zoology and Botany. Similar or corresponding in form or function; spec. (in later use) similar in form or function though of different evolutionary origin. ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 203 All spinall [fishes], or such as have no ribs, but onely a back bone, or somewhat analogous thereto, as Eeles, Congers, Lampries. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 55 The bristles and quils in other Animals..are analogous to the hairs in a man. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Analogy The gills of fishes are said to be analogous to the lungs in terrestrial animals. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 47 Parts which correspond in their real nature—(their origin and development)—are termed homologous; those which agree merely in appearance, or office, are said to be analogous. 1898 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 64 The nerve-cell is analogous to the muscle-cell, producing conducting substance.., as the muscle-cell produces contractile substance. 1962 D. G. Cogan in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 292 The process of lens fibre formation is analogous to keratinization in the skin. 2002 P. Herring Biol. Deep Ocean viii. 177 A few mesopelagic cephalopods have tubular eyes..analogous to those of fishes. 2. gen. Based on, involving, or characterized by analogy (in various senses). Cf. analogical adj. Now rare and archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > metonymic metonymical1563 analogical1623 analogous1653 metonymic1775 analogistic1881 1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick i. 17 When a generall name is given to divers things, whereof one is dependant on another (as upon the more principal) touching the nature of it; as this word thing is most generall..it is therefore called an Analogus general or genus. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 42 An analogous, if not an univocal generation. 1745 D. De Coetlogon Universal Hist. Arts & Sci. II. 12 That Similitude in general is of two Kinds, one univocal, and the other analogous. 1823 J. Hill tr. H. Aldrich Rudim. of Logic 10 The Analogous noun holds, as it were, the middle place between the Univocal and the Equivocal. 1843 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1844) 1 23 The conjunction of verbs, simple and derivative, follows, and then the formation of participles and analogous nouns. 1860 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 5) §58 Nouns are either Univocal, Equivocal, or Analogous. In analogous nouns one meaning is extended to new sets of objects from some proportion or resemblance between them. 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 222 So called mechanical sound changes are opposed to analogous ones, the latter resulting from a psychic association between various linguistic forms and their meanings. 1985 A. Kenny tr. J. Wyclif On Universals xii. 127 Thus you can list three kinds of genus, a metaphysical or analogous genus, like entity, a logical genus like a category, and a natural genus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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