LivingMetal on 05 March 2011
AussieGecko said:
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a·nal·o·gy
[uh-nal-uh-jee]
–noun, plural -gies.
1.
a similarity between like features of two things, on which acomparison may be
2.
similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3.
Biology . an analogous relationship.
4.
Linguistics .
a.
the process by which words or phrases are created orre-formed according to existing patterns in thelanguage, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs,or when a
child says foots for feet.
b.
a form resulting from such a process.
5.
Logic . a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing
in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other
respects.







