Definition of analogy in English:

analogy

nounPlural analogies əˈnalədʒiəˈnælədʒi

1A comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies
mass noun he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines
Example sentencesExamples
- Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant.
- The analogy between outlawing gay marriage and interracial marriage won't withstand scrutiny.
- The steering wheel isn't the only possible basis for Cowan's analogy.
- However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks.
- So what are we doing here; drawing an analogy between the power-law curve of small-campaign news coverage and of small-weblog traffic?
- Victor Davis Hanson makes an analogy between where we are now and where Lincoln was in 1864, as his first presidential term was ending.
- He was always falling in love, and I want to see an analogy between his falling in love so desperately, so intensely, and his fascination with tigers.
- There is a limited analogy between the relation of theology to religious discourse and the relation of logic to language.
- In other words, the roller-coaster analogy is limited, and these limitations may weaken Pinedo's account.
- A friend of mine takes the moral analogy between the aftermath of the Civil War and the current situation in Iraq one step further.
- To the extent that there is any analogy between Moveon and anything that happened half a century ago, the analogy should be to organized labor more generally.
- Between the taboo of ‘eating the dead’ and that of eating domestic animals, the analogy between relatives and animals is clear.
- Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible.
- The analogy between Russia on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and the 1997/98 situation was also popular with many political scientists.
- By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space.
- With the aforementioned reasons, the analogy between Aceh and the southern provinces of Thailand is way off the mark and not based on complete facts.
- One might draw an analogy between Johnson's approach and President Bush's reliance on faith-based initiatives.
- Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game.
- It is little wonder that this week, some Bulgarians began to quip about the analogy between the game and the challenges lying ahead of the Stanishev Cabinet.
- The left is always throwing that word around and, like the Bush / Hitler analogy, it really shows an ignorance of history.
1. 1.1 A correspondence or partial similarity.
  the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia
  Example sentencesExamples
  The proper analogy to many blogs is opinion magazines.
  If there is an analogy between our own age and the Restoration it is perhaps that for us what has been ‘restored’ is capitalist Liberal Democracy.
  Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
  Perhaps the progression of colour throughout the film could serve as an analogy to the growth of Hughes' own achievements, alongside the escalation of his mental illness.
  I think the closer analogy to me, just perhaps because I was there, was Lebanon, where the Americans were greeted with open arms.
  He pointed out the analogy between algebraic symbols and those that represent logical forms.
  But the analogy to the price system is badly strained.
  Yet there's a striking analogy between Smith and the man who is possibly the world's most influential CEO, Warren Buffett.
  By letting British activists rather than Palestinians take the lead, they weakened the analogy to South Africa, their supposed inspiration.
  The analogy to the McFarlane case is, admittedly, not exact.
  Can you see an analogy to the events of September 11?
  How can Kerry possibly see an analogy to terrorism?
  That is, is there an analogy between the Lebanese Christians, who went from a majority to only 40 percent during the past century, and the Jews in Israel?
  The analogy to the late Carter administration is quite apt.
  And that is the closer analogy to what's happening in Iraq.
  I fail to see the analogy between banning a behavior that is being repressed by violence and banning a behavior that is being enforced by violence.
  The analogy to Gaiman isn't perfect, of course.
  If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were.
  I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments.
  In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
  Synonyms
  link, relationship, relation, relatedness, interrelation, interrelatedness, interconnection, interdependence, association, attachment, bond, tie, tie-in, correspondence, parallel
2. 1.2 A thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.
  works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the virtue of a function is to perform it well, the analogy of ‘rational activity’ makes clear that there is a plurality of virtues.
  Crimes not specifically identified in the Sharia are defined on the basis of analogy and often are punished by prison sentences.
  But for a closer analogy to the DFD situation, we have to move overseas.
  The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian.
  My apartment is an analogy for my mind.
  The copy machine is an analogy for the process of transcription.
  Perhaps an even better analogy than the math one - computer programming.
  The game of chess is not a good analogy for protein sequences.
  The artist, in other words, creates by analogy with God, not through copying God's creation.
  It now occurs to me that the best analogy for Google hits as a measurement term is not hertz or joules or pascals, but degrees Celsius.
  Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy.
  The problem with standardized tests is that they do not measure a student's willingness to do work and to succeed, and this makes a timed test a poor analogy to life.
  I'm not sure, either, that genre in music is a good analogy, especially when talking about literature, which… well… has genres, too.
  But Germany and Japan make poor analogies with respect to the contemporary Middle East.
  There is also Plato's idea of the state as an analogy for the soul.
  But is preventive medicine really the proper analogy to contraception?
  The synoptic view of the value of one's moral life has rarely found a more striking analogy.
3. 1.3Logic mass noun A process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects.
  argument from analogy
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe?
  I see about me living human beings, and the argument from analogy is supposed to allow me to infer that these are persons like myself.
  If they are going to argue from analogy, then human's design things which are less complicated than themselves.
  As a law professor, I help train people to argue from analogy and to distinguish among different cases.
  Attributing mental states to other people seems to depend on a shaky argument from analogy only because we are tempted to suppose that such states are directly accessible only to the person whose states they are.
  Synonyms
  similarity, parallel, parallelism, correspondence, likeness, resemblance, correlation, relation, kinship, equivalence, similitude, symmetry, homology
4. 1.4Linguistics mass noun A process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology.
  Another source of change in pronoun systems is analogy of various kinds.
  Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope.
  I suspect that the band Phish may have been inspired to use the same f to ph substitution by the same analogy, but I haven't been able to confirm this.
  They are created in accordance with a schema - by analogy, as it were, with existing forms.
5. 1.5Biology mass noun The resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin.
  Example sentencesExamples
  From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy.
  Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy.
  Indeed, if Darwin's analogy proves anything, it shows the need for intelligent intervention to produce new life forms.
  Abp1 (and by analogy cortactin) also might function to attenuate stronger NPFs in vivo.
  In drawing this analogy Darwin goes beyond denying the simultaneous creation of all species and calls into question the idea of classification as a whole.

Derivatives

analogic

adjective anəˈlɒdʒɪk

This approach draws parallels between similarity judgments and analogic comparisons.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this world of correspondences and analogies, the suffering of Christ demands a similar, consciously analogic, sacrifice.
- These acquisition systems are mutually facilitative: ‘The more powerful the context-sensitive decoding rules (or analogic capabilities), the more entries the learner can acquire.’
- What it means is that pronouns, like all other words, are changeable, via regular sound changes, analogic restructuring, and borrowing.
- Looking itself precedes by nanoseconds the convoluted analogic mazes our minds construct.

analogical

adjective anəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌænəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l

Is there just one concept that corresponds to an analogical term, or is there a sequence of concepts?
Example sentencesExamples
- As a universal spam blocking tool Spam Blocker possesses indefeasible advantages compared to analogical applications.
- He was unable to see how evolution in biology could have any but the feeblest analogical resemblance to the evolution of society.
- The analogical structure and poetical impulse that runs through all of the paired images are even found in the artist's single images such as his Giglio.
- What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable.

analogically

adverb anəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li

In order to determine the moral status of the biological artifact produced by altered nuclear transfer, we need to find an analogically similar entity with a matching ‘fact pattern’.
Example sentencesExamples
- Although your Lordships were referred in the course of the argument to a large number of reported cases, this is not a branch of the law in which references to other cases is of any real assistance except analogically.
- Content can be matched to therapy issues analogically as well as concretely.
- Chapter 7 ends oddly with a set of sound principles ‘behind’ Christian discernment, which seem to be unrelated to the book's principal thesis about the way in which the story of Jesus analogically shapes Christian ethics.
- His books The Changing Workplace and The New Office speak of embracing new digital technologies and potentially rethinking the office analogically as hives, dens, cells, and clubs.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'appropriateness, correspondence'): from French analogie, Latin analogia 'proportion', from Greek, from analogos 'proportionate'.

Rhymes

allergy, genealogy, hypallage, metallurgy, mineralogy, tetralogy

Definition of analogy in US English:

analogy

nounəˈnælədʒiəˈnaləjē

1A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies
he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines
Example sentencesExamples
- By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space.
- Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game.
- With the aforementioned reasons, the analogy between Aceh and the southern provinces of Thailand is way off the mark and not based on complete facts.
- To the extent that there is any analogy between Moveon and anything that happened half a century ago, the analogy should be to organized labor more generally.
- So what are we doing here; drawing an analogy between the power-law curve of small-campaign news coverage and of small-weblog traffic?
- In other words, the roller-coaster analogy is limited, and these limitations may weaken Pinedo's account.
- There is a limited analogy between the relation of theology to religious discourse and the relation of logic to language.
- The steering wheel isn't the only possible basis for Cowan's analogy.
- The analogy between outlawing gay marriage and interracial marriage won't withstand scrutiny.
- A friend of mine takes the moral analogy between the aftermath of the Civil War and the current situation in Iraq one step further.
- It is little wonder that this week, some Bulgarians began to quip about the analogy between the game and the challenges lying ahead of the Stanishev Cabinet.
- He was always falling in love, and I want to see an analogy between his falling in love so desperately, so intensely, and his fascination with tigers.
- However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks.
- Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant.
- Victor Davis Hanson makes an analogy between where we are now and where Lincoln was in 1864, as his first presidential term was ending.
- The analogy between Russia on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and the 1997/98 situation was also popular with many political scientists.
- The left is always throwing that word around and, like the Bush / Hitler analogy, it really shows an ignorance of history.
- One might draw an analogy between Johnson's approach and President Bush's reliance on faith-based initiatives.
- Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible.
- Between the taboo of ‘eating the dead’ and that of eating domestic animals, the analogy between relatives and animals is clear.
1. 1.1 A correspondence or partial similarity.
  the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia
  Example sentencesExamples
  The analogy to Gaiman isn't perfect, of course.
  In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
  He pointed out the analogy between algebraic symbols and those that represent logical forms.
  Can you see an analogy to the events of September 11?
  I fail to see the analogy between banning a behavior that is being repressed by violence and banning a behavior that is being enforced by violence.
  The proper analogy to many blogs is opinion magazines.
  The analogy to the late Carter administration is quite apt.
  And that is the closer analogy to what's happening in Iraq.
  If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were.
  I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments.
  Yet there's a striking analogy between Smith and the man who is possibly the world's most influential CEO, Warren Buffett.
  By letting British activists rather than Palestinians take the lead, they weakened the analogy to South Africa, their supposed inspiration.
  But the analogy to the price system is badly strained.
  The analogy to the McFarlane case is, admittedly, not exact.
  That is, is there an analogy between the Lebanese Christians, who went from a majority to only 40 percent during the past century, and the Jews in Israel?
  Perhaps the progression of colour throughout the film could serve as an analogy to the growth of Hughes' own achievements, alongside the escalation of his mental illness.
  How can Kerry possibly see an analogy to terrorism?
  Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
  I think the closer analogy to me, just perhaps because I was there, was Lebanon, where the Americans were greeted with open arms.
  If there is an analogy between our own age and the Restoration it is perhaps that for us what has been ‘restored’ is capitalist Liberal Democracy.
  Synonyms
  link, relationship, relation, relatedness, interrelation, interrelatedness, interconnection, interdependence, association, attachment, bond, tie, tie-in, correspondence, parallel
2. 1.2 A thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.
  works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature
  Example sentencesExamples
  The problem with standardized tests is that they do not measure a student's willingness to do work and to succeed, and this makes a timed test a poor analogy to life.
  It now occurs to me that the best analogy for Google hits as a measurement term is not hertz or joules or pascals, but degrees Celsius.
  The game of chess is not a good analogy for protein sequences.
  I'm not sure, either, that genre in music is a good analogy, especially when talking about literature, which… well… has genres, too.
  There is also Plato's idea of the state as an analogy for the soul.
  But is preventive medicine really the proper analogy to contraception?
  Perhaps an even better analogy than the math one - computer programming.
  The synoptic view of the value of one's moral life has rarely found a more striking analogy.
  The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian.
  Crimes not specifically identified in the Sharia are defined on the basis of analogy and often are punished by prison sentences.
  But for a closer analogy to the DFD situation, we have to move overseas.
  The copy machine is an analogy for the process of transcription.
  If the virtue of a function is to perform it well, the analogy of ‘rational activity’ makes clear that there is a plurality of virtues.
  My apartment is an analogy for my mind.
  The artist, in other words, creates by analogy with God, not through copying God's creation.
  Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy.
  But Germany and Japan make poor analogies with respect to the contemporary Middle East.
3. 1.3Logic A process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I see about me living human beings, and the argument from analogy is supposed to allow me to infer that these are persons like myself.
  This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe?
  If they are going to argue from analogy, then human's design things which are less complicated than themselves.
  Attributing mental states to other people seems to depend on a shaky argument from analogy only because we are tempted to suppose that such states are directly accessible only to the person whose states they are.
  As a law professor, I help train people to argue from analogy and to distinguish among different cases.
  Synonyms
  similarity, parallel, parallelism, correspondence, likeness, resemblance, correlation, relation, kinship, equivalence, similitude, symmetry, homology
4. 1.4Linguistics A process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones.
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are created in accordance with a schema - by analogy, as it were, with existing forms.
  Another source of change in pronoun systems is analogy of various kinds.
  Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope.
  Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology.
  I suspect that the band Phish may have been inspired to use the same f to ph substitution by the same analogy, but I haven't been able to confirm this.
5. 1.5Biology The resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Indeed, if Darwin's analogy proves anything, it shows the need for intelligent intervention to produce new life forms.
  In drawing this analogy Darwin goes beyond denying the simultaneous creation of all species and calls into question the idea of classification as a whole.
  From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy.
  Abp1 (and by analogy cortactin) also might function to attenuate stronger NPFs in vivo.
  Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’.

单词	analogy
释义	Definition of analogy in English: analogy nounPlural analogies əˈnalədʒiəˈnælədʒi 1A comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies mass noun he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines Example sentencesExamples Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant. The analogy between outlawing gay marriage and interracial marriage won't withstand scrutiny. The steering wheel isn't the only possible basis for Cowan's analogy. However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks. So what are we doing here; drawing an analogy between the power-law curve of small-campaign news coverage and of small-weblog traffic? Victor Davis Hanson makes an analogy between where we are now and where Lincoln was in 1864, as his first presidential term was ending. He was always falling in love, and I want to see an analogy between his falling in love so desperately, so intensely, and his fascination with tigers. There is a limited analogy between the relation of theology to religious discourse and the relation of logic to language. In other words, the roller-coaster analogy is limited, and these limitations may weaken Pinedo's account. A friend of mine takes the moral analogy between the aftermath of the Civil War and the current situation in Iraq one step further. To the extent that there is any analogy between Moveon and anything that happened half a century ago, the analogy should be to organized labor more generally. Between the taboo of ‘eating the dead’ and that of eating domestic animals, the analogy between relatives and animals is clear. Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible. The analogy between Russia on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and the 1997/98 situation was also popular with many political scientists. By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space. With the aforementioned reasons, the analogy between Aceh and the southern provinces of Thailand is way off the mark and not based on complete facts. One might draw an analogy between Johnson's approach and President Bush's reliance on faith-based initiatives. Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game. It is little wonder that this week, some Bulgarians began to quip about the analogy between the game and the challenges lying ahead of the Stanishev Cabinet. The left is always throwing that word around and, like the Bush / Hitler analogy, it really shows an ignorance of history. 1.1 A correspondence or partial similarity. the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia Example sentencesExamples The proper analogy to many blogs is opinion magazines. If there is an analogy between our own age and the Restoration it is perhaps that for us what has been ‘restored’ is capitalist Liberal Democracy. Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex. Perhaps the progression of colour throughout the film could serve as an analogy to the growth of Hughes' own achievements, alongside the escalation of his mental illness. I think the closer analogy to me, just perhaps because I was there, was Lebanon, where the Americans were greeted with open arms. He pointed out the analogy between algebraic symbols and those that represent logical forms. But the analogy to the price system is badly strained. Yet there's a striking analogy between Smith and the man who is possibly the world's most influential CEO, Warren Buffett. By letting British activists rather than Palestinians take the lead, they weakened the analogy to South Africa, their supposed inspiration. The analogy to the McFarlane case is, admittedly, not exact. Can you see an analogy to the events of September 11? How can Kerry possibly see an analogy to terrorism? That is, is there an analogy between the Lebanese Christians, who went from a majority to only 40 percent during the past century, and the Jews in Israel? The analogy to the late Carter administration is quite apt. And that is the closer analogy to what's happening in Iraq. I fail to see the analogy between banning a behavior that is being repressed by violence and banning a behavior that is being enforced by violence. The analogy to Gaiman isn't perfect, of course. If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were. I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students. Synonyms link, relationship, relation, relatedness, interrelation, interrelatedness, interconnection, interdependence, association, attachment, bond, tie, tie-in, correspondence, parallel 1.2 A thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature Example sentencesExamples If the virtue of a function is to perform it well, the analogy of ‘rational activity’ makes clear that there is a plurality of virtues. Crimes not specifically identified in the Sharia are defined on the basis of analogy and often are punished by prison sentences. But for a closer analogy to the DFD situation, we have to move overseas. The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian. My apartment is an analogy for my mind. The copy machine is an analogy for the process of transcription. Perhaps an even better analogy than the math one - computer programming. The game of chess is not a good analogy for protein sequences. The artist, in other words, creates by analogy with God, not through copying God's creation. It now occurs to me that the best analogy for Google hits as a measurement term is not hertz or joules or pascals, but degrees Celsius. Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy. The problem with standardized tests is that they do not measure a student's willingness to do work and to succeed, and this makes a timed test a poor analogy to life. I'm not sure, either, that genre in music is a good analogy, especially when talking about literature, which… well… has genres, too. But Germany and Japan make poor analogies with respect to the contemporary Middle East. There is also Plato's idea of the state as an analogy for the soul. But is preventive medicine really the proper analogy to contraception? The synoptic view of the value of one's moral life has rarely found a more striking analogy. 1.3Logic mass noun A process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects. argument from analogy Example sentencesExamples This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe? I see about me living human beings, and the argument from analogy is supposed to allow me to infer that these are persons like myself. If they are going to argue from analogy, then human's design things which are less complicated than themselves. As a law professor, I help train people to argue from analogy and to distinguish among different cases. Attributing mental states to other people seems to depend on a shaky argument from analogy only because we are tempted to suppose that such states are directly accessible only to the person whose states they are. Synonyms similarity, parallel, parallelism, correspondence, likeness, resemblance, correlation, relation, kinship, equivalence, similitude, symmetry, homology 1.4Linguistics mass noun A process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones. Example sentencesExamples Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology. Another source of change in pronoun systems is analogy of various kinds. Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope. I suspect that the band Phish may have been inspired to use the same f to ph substitution by the same analogy, but I haven't been able to confirm this. They are created in accordance with a schema - by analogy, as it were, with existing forms. 1.5Biology mass noun The resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin. Example sentencesExamples From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy. Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy. Indeed, if Darwin's analogy proves anything, it shows the need for intelligent intervention to produce new life forms. Abp1 (and by analogy cortactin) also might function to attenuate stronger NPFs in vivo. In drawing this analogy Darwin goes beyond denying the simultaneous creation of all species and calls into question the idea of classification as a whole. Derivatives analogic adjective anəˈlɒdʒɪk This approach draws parallels between similarity judgments and analogic comparisons. Example sentencesExamples In this world of correspondences and analogies, the suffering of Christ demands a similar, consciously analogic, sacrifice. These acquisition systems are mutually facilitative: ‘The more powerful the context-sensitive decoding rules (or analogic capabilities), the more entries the learner can acquire.’ What it means is that pronouns, like all other words, are changeable, via regular sound changes, analogic restructuring, and borrowing. Looking itself precedes by nanoseconds the convoluted analogic mazes our minds construct. analogical adjective anəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌænəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l Is there just one concept that corresponds to an analogical term, or is there a sequence of concepts? Example sentencesExamples As a universal spam blocking tool Spam Blocker possesses indefeasible advantages compared to analogical applications. He was unable to see how evolution in biology could have any but the feeblest analogical resemblance to the evolution of society. The analogical structure and poetical impulse that runs through all of the paired images are even found in the artist's single images such as his Giglio. What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable. analogically adverb anəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li In order to determine the moral status of the biological artifact produced by altered nuclear transfer, we need to find an analogically similar entity with a matching ‘fact pattern’. Example sentencesExamples Although your Lordships were referred in the course of the argument to a large number of reported cases, this is not a branch of the law in which references to other cases is of any real assistance except analogically. Content can be matched to therapy issues analogically as well as concretely. Chapter 7 ends oddly with a set of sound principles ‘behind’ Christian discernment, which seem to be unrelated to the book's principal thesis about the way in which the story of Jesus analogically shapes Christian ethics. His books The Changing Workplace and The New Office speak of embracing new digital technologies and potentially rethinking the office analogically as hives, dens, cells, and clubs. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'appropriateness, correspondence'): from French analogie, Latin analogia 'proportion', from Greek, from analogos 'proportionate'. Rhymes allergy, genealogy, hypallage, metallurgy, mineralogy, tetralogy Definition of analogy in US English: analogy nounəˈnælədʒiəˈnaləjē 1A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines Example sentencesExamples By analogy with the rock and the feather, think of a heavy warhead and a very light balloon that is inflated in the shape of a warhead; they would also travel along together in space. Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game. With the aforementioned reasons, the analogy between Aceh and the southern provinces of Thailand is way off the mark and not based on complete facts. To the extent that there is any analogy between Moveon and anything that happened half a century ago, the analogy should be to organized labor more generally. So what are we doing here; drawing an analogy between the power-law curve of small-campaign news coverage and of small-weblog traffic? In other words, the roller-coaster analogy is limited, and these limitations may weaken Pinedo's account. There is a limited analogy between the relation of theology to religious discourse and the relation of logic to language. The steering wheel isn't the only possible basis for Cowan's analogy. The analogy between outlawing gay marriage and interracial marriage won't withstand scrutiny. A friend of mine takes the moral analogy between the aftermath of the Civil War and the current situation in Iraq one step further. It is little wonder that this week, some Bulgarians began to quip about the analogy between the game and the challenges lying ahead of the Stanishev Cabinet. He was always falling in love, and I want to see an analogy between his falling in love so desperately, so intensely, and his fascination with tigers. However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks. Coleman drew an analogy between Cheney and my favorite historical figure, Ulysses Grant. Victor Davis Hanson makes an analogy between where we are now and where Lincoln was in 1864, as his first presidential term was ending. The analogy between Russia on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and the 1997/98 situation was also popular with many political scientists. The left is always throwing that word around and, like the Bush / Hitler analogy, it really shows an ignorance of history. One might draw an analogy between Johnson's approach and President Bush's reliance on faith-based initiatives. Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible. Between the taboo of ‘eating the dead’ and that of eating domestic animals, the analogy between relatives and animals is clear. 1.1 A correspondence or partial similarity. the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia Example sentencesExamples The analogy to Gaiman isn't perfect, of course. In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students. He pointed out the analogy between algebraic symbols and those that represent logical forms. Can you see an analogy to the events of September 11? I fail to see the analogy between banning a behavior that is being repressed by violence and banning a behavior that is being enforced by violence. The proper analogy to many blogs is opinion magazines. The analogy to the late Carter administration is quite apt. And that is the closer analogy to what's happening in Iraq. If there is any likeness at all between the machine and its embodied precursor, the closest analogy to that relationship might be between adults and the babies they once were. I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. Yet there's a striking analogy between Smith and the man who is possibly the world's most influential CEO, Warren Buffett. By letting British activists rather than Palestinians take the lead, they weakened the analogy to South Africa, their supposed inspiration. But the analogy to the price system is badly strained. The analogy to the McFarlane case is, admittedly, not exact. That is, is there an analogy between the Lebanese Christians, who went from a majority to only 40 percent during the past century, and the Jews in Israel? Perhaps the progression of colour throughout the film could serve as an analogy to the growth of Hughes' own achievements, alongside the escalation of his mental illness. How can Kerry possibly see an analogy to terrorism? Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex. I think the closer analogy to me, just perhaps because I was there, was Lebanon, where the Americans were greeted with open arms. If there is an analogy between our own age and the Restoration it is perhaps that for us what has been ‘restored’ is capitalist Liberal Democracy. Synonyms link, relationship, relation, relatedness, interrelation, interrelatedness, interconnection, interdependence, association, attachment, bond, tie, tie-in, correspondence, parallel 1.2 A thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature Example sentencesExamples The problem with standardized tests is that they do not measure a student's willingness to do work and to succeed, and this makes a timed test a poor analogy to life. It now occurs to me that the best analogy for Google hits as a measurement term is not hertz or joules or pascals, but degrees Celsius. The game of chess is not a good analogy for protein sequences. I'm not sure, either, that genre in music is a good analogy, especially when talking about literature, which… well… has genres, too. There is also Plato's idea of the state as an analogy for the soul. But is preventive medicine really the proper analogy to contraception? Perhaps an even better analogy than the math one - computer programming. The synoptic view of the value of one's moral life has rarely found a more striking analogy. The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian. Crimes not specifically identified in the Sharia are defined on the basis of analogy and often are punished by prison sentences. But for a closer analogy to the DFD situation, we have to move overseas. The copy machine is an analogy for the process of transcription. If the virtue of a function is to perform it well, the analogy of ‘rational activity’ makes clear that there is a plurality of virtues. My apartment is an analogy for my mind. The artist, in other words, creates by analogy with God, not through copying God's creation. Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy. But Germany and Japan make poor analogies with respect to the contemporary Middle East. 1.3Logic A process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects. Example sentencesExamples I see about me living human beings, and the argument from analogy is supposed to allow me to infer that these are persons like myself. This is the source of scepticism about other minds: how, given that the argument from analogy does not work, can I claim to be justified in believing that there are any minds other than my own in the universe? If they are going to argue from analogy, then human's design things which are less complicated than themselves. Attributing mental states to other people seems to depend on a shaky argument from analogy only because we are tempted to suppose that such states are directly accessible only to the person whose states they are. As a law professor, I help train people to argue from analogy and to distinguish among different cases. Synonyms similarity, parallel, parallelism, correspondence, likeness, resemblance, correlation, relation, kinship, equivalence, similitude, symmetry, homology 1.4Linguistics A process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones. Example sentencesExamples They are created in accordance with a schema - by analogy, as it were, with existing forms. Another source of change in pronoun systems is analogy of various kinds. Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope. Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology. I suspect that the band Phish may have been inspired to use the same f to ph substitution by the same analogy, but I haven't been able to confirm this. 1.5Biology The resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin. Example sentencesExamples Indeed, if Darwin's analogy proves anything, it shows the need for intelligent intervention to produce new life forms. In drawing this analogy Darwin goes beyond denying the simultaneous creation of all species and calls into question the idea of classification as a whole. From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy. Abp1 (and by analogy cortactin) also might function to attenuate stronger NPFs in vivo. Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’.
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