Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make an analogy of or concerning.
- intransitive verb To reason by or use analogy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To explain by analogy; exhibit resemblance between.
- To make use of analogy; be analogous.
- Also spelled
analogise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To employ, or reason by, analogy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To express as an
analogy . - verb To treat one thing as
analogous to another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make an analogy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Again, its because I had the "advantage" of working in banking and saw this coming, but I kind of analogize it to being in the 101st Airborne during the
Captain Capitalism 2008
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Not to analogize to much but Columbus did not build a new type of craft to sail the Atlantic but instead used what was available.
Proponents of DIRECT Offer Rebuttal to NASA's Analysis - NASA Watch 2009
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Your efforts to analogize the modern Tea Party movement to the American Revolution might be more persuasive if you would get the history right.
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Already any attempts to analogize the philosophy or aggravations that lead to the previous tea party with the current tea party miss the point and significance of the modern uprising.
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If I had to take the position that the results were consistent with the thought that conservatives have “better” (meaning better outcomes based on this article) than democrats and had to explain this article, I would probably analogize the result to an economics of charity paper I read.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010
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I analogize the situation to an injured player who consults a surgeon for advice.
Michael Huyghue: NFL Labor Dispute: First Thing We Do Is Get Rid of All the Lawyers Michael Huyghue 2011
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This, he felt, was an offensive effort on the part of Pelosi and Lewis to analogize themselves to the civil rights movement:
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It is a logical fallacy to analogize the embodiment of climate theory and processes (i.e., climate software) as scientific instruments.
Climate Science is an Experimental Science | Serendipity 2010
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From trademark, the Abercrombie spectrum: self consciously about words; courts try to analogize when dealing with other visual symbols or sounds, or throw up their hands and say never mind, secondary meaning is required.
IPSC: Mixed IP Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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We cannot analogize a 21st century society that permits private discrimination and prohibits government discrimination with the Jim Crow south because the later was institutionalized by government discrimination.
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010
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