analogy
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analogies
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analogies
Learner's definition of ANALOGY
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a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way
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He drew/made an analogy between flying a kite and fishing. [=he compared flying a kite to fishing; he said that flying a kite was like fishing]
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the act of comparing two things that are alike in some way
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coining new words by analogy to/with existing ones [=coining new words so that they are formed in a way similar to old ones]
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reasoning by analogy
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