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Sentence Examples He tries to mansplain it with a weak athlete analogy, but she cuts him short. To use his own analogy, at present the people enjoy both bread and circuses. He pointed out the analogy between algebraic symbols and those that represent logical forms. Jill's post about this, and her analogy to the unpopular girl winning homecoming queen, made me want to go and vote. If we return to the gunshot analogy, we realize why creating sound effects is a perfectly legitimate practice in maintaining realism. I am reasoning by analogy and by reference to the extension of rights for humans. Finally, the authors misuse the air-space analogy in their discussion of the treatment of airliners. Think of the analogy of an electric wire carrying more electricity than its diameter can safely carry. The soundtracks extend the analogy by their resemblances to early sound recordings. Instead of correcting the wrong bits I should have just thrown the whole analogy back at him. I'm going to refute Bruce in three easy steps, first with some history, second with some analogy, and lastly with a bit of philosophy. But when it comes to the relation between sense and reference, the analogy could mislead. The book answers all these questions by analogy, with instances from the alternative America of the novel. You could make the analogy that it has the weight of aluminum with the strength of steel. Before there was always something missing that prevented the analogy from being complete. The analogy between outlawing gay marriage and interracial marriage won't withstand scrutiny. However, I'm also reminded of an analogy between blogs and old-style soapbox speakers in City parks. Victor Davis Hanson makes an analogy between where we are now and where Lincoln was in 1864, as his first presidential term was ending. 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. Show More Sentences A friend of mine takes the moral analogy between the aftermath of the Civil War and the current situation in Iraq one step further. 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. 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. Yet there's a striking analogy between Smith and the man who is possibly the world's most influential CEO, Warren Buffett. I would draw an analogy to the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. Crimes not specifically identified in the Sharia are defined on the basis of analogy and often are punished by prison sentences. The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian. 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. The synoptic view of the value of one's moral life has rarely found a more striking analogy. 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. Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology. Processes of analogy have created coinages like petrodollar, psycho-warfare, microwave on such models as petrochemical, psychology, microscope. 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. Show More Sentences The revelation of the secret of incest tears the family and, by analogy, the nation, apart. Incidentally, the analogy holds good also for anti-corruption work done by premier enforcement agencies. An analogy could be made with how the emergence of European fascism should be taught. By analogy, a mother does not love her child because it hungers and cries, even though its crying makes new demands upon her love. Godel made an analogy between optical illusions in the physical world and antinomies like Russell's paradox in the mathematical realm. There is a further analogy in how you incorporate what you learn into your entire apperceptive mass. The Stoics use the analogy of the archer shooting at a target to explain this notion. He roundly dismissed any analogy between the Algerian war and the Iraqi occupation. He was clearly uncomfortable with the analogy, but does not clearly articulate many objections to it. The analogy that the argument posits thus falls nicely into a table with two columns and three rows. Cuvier regards them as a kind of tactors, and they also present some analogy to antenna. In a legal system that's built on analogy and precedent, principles often expand past the boundaries that even their authors originally urged. His historical analogy was compelling, but that didn't save him from being denounced by right-thinking peers for his tastelessness. By analogy with modern amphipods it is thought that these animals may have swum on their backs and fed on suspended particles. The distinction feminists have made between maleness and masculinity provides a clue and an analogy. An interesting analogy may occur in some manakins in which males are smaller than females. By analogy, that term came to be applied to transmitting radio or television signals over a wide area. The analogy with a Chelsea footballer or a classical pianist is completely off the mark. The best analogy I can think of is that I was looking for a mask to conceal my true feelings. It emphasizes participation in God, employing a Thomist doctrine of analogy as a way of affirming difference as well as participation. Show More Sentences Another psychologist, E.M. Thornton, extends the analogy between hypnotism, mesmerism, and exorcism. It may be a dubious analogy, but just say that reading a novel is something like going on a ride at the midway. They might be basing their charges on some kind of analogy to the cost of the hotel room. Our experience of how human minds work provides an analogy to how a primeval, creator mind probably worked. Cosmologists imagine the big bang theory by means of an analogy to an expanding balloon. The paper draws an analogy between the binomial theorem and the successive derivatives of the product of functions. Then chaos and catastrophe theories jump on board and my analogy come crashing down in a shower of mixed metaphors. I shudder to think what nations around the world would think of such an analogy. The major points being made by the analogy are that colleges can estimate costs and set tuitions, fees, and requests accordingly. I have thereby tried to create another kind of monument, if an academic essay can even begin to bear the weight of such an analogy. Admittedly, this is a simplistic analogy, but it captures the essence of the issue. The house analogy, or some other similar paradigm, is simply unassailable fact in microcosm. You know, drawing the analogy between men and dogs doesn't sit too well with them. The analogy that I like to use is that it is like taking a sledgehammer to a large boulder and breaking it up so the pebbles can be washed away. I think this same analogy applies very accurately not only to the study of mythology, but to a variety of other fields of thought. I use the analogy that if you come to stay in another's house, you do not turn round and abuse their hospitality and call them names. Butter was used as an analogy for smooth-talking hypocrites who talk peace while making war. Amy may argue by analogy with this reasoning that the plaintiff council will have to prove she was negligent. In the architectural analogy, we can think of bulldozers as the ground clearing tools of demolition. A loose analogy with T. S. Eliot's notion of how a new classic affects the canon of a literature might be drawn here. Show More Sentences First is the appropriateness of the analogy between stockbreeding and human reproduction. And generally, often in so-called logical thinking, we depend upon using the analogy of Euclidean or Cartesian argument, to define policy. There is a body of case law dealing with a similar issue in the context of conditional sentences, that may apply by analogy. A simple analogy or a homely metaphor does the trick to invite the reader to share his views, opinions, judgement and comments. This striking analogy could be useful in considering what is to be done with the herds of students who populate our land. Well, there was that one time he wrote a poker game analogy, in which the two people playing 5-card stud drew cards. If your job was emptying an inbox and filling an outbox, you were begging for someone to draw the analogy and act on it. The analogy between cerebral protection with deep hypothermia, and cold water submersion, now becomes obvious. To use an analogy, are you going to the delivery boy about wrong or damaged goods, or directly to the high-ups to complain? Returning to the toddler analogy, the most you might do is a sharp word or a small swat on the rear. To draw a Saussurian analogy of my own, writing is parole, praxis, not a moribund, non-negotiable langue. Legal reasoning by analogy and syllogism was one aspect of the effort needed to fathom the law as revealed by God and his Prophet. To return to the musical analogy, the symphony sounds slightly different when played by different orchestras, even though the score is the same. Even Jesus' analogy of patching an old cloak with a new piece of cloth is unfamiliar in today's world of preshrunk and synthetic materials. In applying his general hylomorphism to soul-body relations, Aristotle contends that the following general analogy obtains. By way of analogy, an offer to lease would similarly not bind a mortgage or hypothecary lender. And Russian landscapes are often big and empty, an analogy to the soul, which is depthless. Waiting for the inevitable dose of fatalism this analogy provides is somewhat predicable but thoroughly enjoyable. The analogy of surface waves propagating on a body of water may be helpful in understanding the physics of sound propagation. You might think that this isn't a very good analogy, comparing prisons to a commercial passenger jet. Show More Sentences We often compare the construction process to a military operation, but she prefers the analogy of a well choreographed ballet. In the original Greek sense, analogy involved a comparison of two proportions or relations. He acknowledges that one should not push the analogy too far, but he persists in his search for parallels in the painted and plastic arts. I guess one could draw an equally strong analogy to the classical symphony's slow introduction before a first-movement allegro. An analogy between point-and-shoot photography and desktop design analysis isn't that far-fetched. To use a tool analogy, a flathead and a Phillips head screwdriver are both screwdrivers and they can both help me build things. A better analogy is to equate the new swimsuits with flippers and hand paddles, equipment devices that enhance performance. He grinned mindlessly at his stupid analogy, moving to go and flop on the couch again, though this time with energy and not-so-much black. Moreover, they can also be seen as potential shape-selective catalysts by analogy with the porous minerals, zeolites. Furthermore, he draws an analogy between the belief in hypnosis and the belief in demonic possession and exorcism. It's still the definitive discussion of the fourth dimension using the one-dimension down analogy. Their analogy between slavery and sharecropping provides a specialized instance of the objectification of croppers in the book. A common analogy of consolidation is that of a frictionless piston pushing against a spring in a cylinder full of water. He does however still fudge the truth question somewhat in his analogy with writing. As in the analogy, such fudge factors are applicable only where the motion is constant both in speed and in direction. The direct analogy to voltage and current is the flow of water through a hose. A closer analogy to communion would be if the symbolic genital cutting was performed on something that wasn't part of anybody's body! It's sometimes I think the best analogy for a koan is a painting that has a powerful effect on you. The analogy of letting off steam was used earlier, like this was a pressure cooker situation. This passage is effective, if only because it employs a debatably relevant, historical analogy. Show More Sentences I was going to make a Cold War analogy here, but, let's face it, that would be ridiculously pretentious. A sadly appropriate analogy would be the profligate and highly overindebted consumer who has finally reached the end of his rope. By analogy, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a moving object also exhibits the Doppler effect. Bond distances, angles, and dihedrals, as well as the force constants, were taken for analogy with amino acids having similar functional groups. An analogy would be that, in English folklore, the elder plant has been used in countless different ways medicinally and for food. What is more, the clouds do not adopt disc-like shapes like the rings of Saturn, as a solar-system analogy might imply. They can act as real enzymes and, by analogy to protein enzymes, are called ribozymes. Each can be seen as drawing an analogy with one or more strands of Marxist epistemology. The post isn't actually about the TV show, but the analogy sprung to mind and I haven't been able to fully exorcise it. In response to my early drafts of this article, the following analogy was proposed. But for a closer analogy to the DFD situation, we have to move overseas. To continue the footballing analogy, it is like asking footballers to sign a formal declaration before each game that they will not cheat and will always play fair. This analogy suggests that comparing the language proficiency of a monolingual with a bilingual's dual language or multilingual proficiency is similarly unjust. Based on corallite configuration, growth form and analogy with Acropora, Blastozopsammia had a relatively high degree of colony integration and may have been zooxanthellate. But is preventive medicine really the proper analogy to contraception? By way of analogy, pelecaniforms also use large gular pouches for feeding young and in cooling behaviors, both entirely plausible behaviors for pareiasaurs. I argue that, in addition to organizational dynamics, the analogy of family relationships may also be fruitful for understanding gender in modern religious denominations. I think there is a genuine analogy between the situation of the church today and the challenge Gnosticism presented to the church in the mid-second century. 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. There is also Plato's idea of the state as an analogy for the soul. Show More Sentences The wood concept is later reinforced with the analogy that one should not complain about the poor spiritual vision of another when one has a beam in their eye. In fact, there is a definite analogy to music used in perfumery and the ingredients are assembled and expressed as a top note, middle note or base note. We thought that it would be useful for the Court to look simply by way of analogy to the cases in cognate areas such as the cases on stamp duty dealing with resettlement. To stretch a manufacturing analogy, unsalaried bloggers represent low-cost Chinese laborers, professional journalists the well-paid-with-benefits American workers. 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. Another source of change in pronoun systems is analogy of various kinds. The wave analogy is similar to the propagation of an acoustic wave in air. 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. 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. 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. The analogy to the McFarlane case is, admittedly, not exact. 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. The analogy that Burns and his colleagues use when talking about attaching the body onto the chassis is snapping a notebook computer into a docking station. Schoenberg never intended the 12-note technique to exclude possible tonal implications, and his use of hexachords is a close analogy to tonal practice. And it strikes me as a singularly inapt analogy to make, an analogy that ought to make one question its user's underlying thinking about the problem. Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy. From the fourteenth century on discussions of analogy focused not so much on linguistic usages as on the nature of the concepts that corresponded to the words used. The game of chess is not a good analogy for protein sequences. The copy machine is an analogy for the process of transcription. While analogy is not a tainted operation in and of itself, automatic analogy is the means by which presupposition comes to dictate the reading of the text. Show More Sentences That analogy is singularly inapt to this particular situation. The word is borrowed by analogy from the terminology of linguistic syntax. The analogy was that this was a nation ruled by twelve regional warlords. He realised the analogy with Poisson brackets in Hamiltonian mechanics. 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. By analogy with these living taxa, the first flowering plants would be slowly growing and maturing trees or shrubs with large leaves that photosynthesized at low rates. By analogy, biomaterials like proteins and self-assembling oligopeptides may have a critical aggregation concentration based on their amphiphilic structures. And as poignant as that analogy may be, it is not the crux of the matter. He did not conflate signs with reality at an elemental level, and his alphabet does not connect to reality so much as provide an analogy for real-world relations. If this is successful, it'll likely be the major earner, an obvious analogy being the add-on channels sold by cable TV companies as extras to the basic package. Sticking to our roadway analogy, long-haul trucking may be more sensitive to throughput, while a courier service may be more demanding on latency. He compares his subject to shoddy construction, and that's an analogy we can work with, because in software we're working at the thrilling edge of language and craftsmanship. In analogy with the load and the metage in hydrodynamics, we define magnetohydrodynamic load and magnetohydrodynamic metage in the case of magnetofluids. This analogy has a problem, however, in that one tends to be aware that the two-dimensional surface is embedded in the three dimensions of our ordinary space. At the very worst, real mothers suffer by analogy with bawds and pimps. The analogy emerges that some hybrid zones act as semipermeable membranes that provide a conduit for gene flow at some loci and restrict it at others. For the analogy with art, or the art of landscape gardening, which is adumbrated here is clearly one that cannot be worked through straightforwardly. Or perhaps a better analogy is when a woman is obviously upset with her beau, yet when he asks what is wrong, she makes his identification of the problem part of his penance. We then define solid angles, 1 and 2, in terms of the plane angle components in exact analogy to spherical angles defined in terms of line components. The steering wheel isn't the only possible basis for Cowan's analogy. Show More Sentences Although this sort of analogy to herd-living, open-country ungulates will always be somewhat conjectural, it is far from being completely speculative. 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. 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. His analogy is insensitive to a degree that is almost unfathomable. It was this analogy that drove him on to study cholera, anthrax, erysipelas and finally rabies, culminating in the development of the rabies vaccine. Even so, a rough analogy between the two periods is possible. 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. Interreligious comprehension and analogy are often better served by considering patterns and tropologies rather than individuals. To give an analogy, a stress test is like an exam, and a tough exam requires not only a tough exam paper but also a challenging pass mark. According to this view, analogy depends on the mapping or alignment of the elements of source and target. Geostrategist Nicholas Spykman makes the Caribbean-Mediterranean analogy even more explicit than did Mahan. In this analogy, embodiment is the enactment of spirit, the particularization of potential and probability. The analogy is based on the idea that pejorative slurs are used to express both a descriptive belief and a negative attitude. As an analogy, you can think of a television picture being a bitmap that is scanned to give the image. For the novice, Carey uses the analogy of a script and film to explain the difference and interactions between genetics and epigenetics. A classic use of analogy to explain a very new and difficult concept is Einstein's demonstration of his principle of relativity. The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo. Is there any analogy, in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up? Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. In effect, the analogy of writing that lies at the core of graphism has subtly colonized the conversation. Show More Sentences Existing binding precedent from past cases are applied in principle to new situations by analogy. He later called his theory natural selection, an analogy with what he termed the artificial selection of selective breeding. Bardeen and Brandon Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics, drawing an analogy with thermodynamics. In other cases, by analogy, the consonant was written double merely to indicate the lack of lengthening. He discussed the Trinity first by stating that human beings could not know God from Himself but only from analogy. In the West analogy led to the veneration of four Eastern Doctors, Saint Athanasius being added to the three hierarchs. Of course, there is no reason why some algorithm invented by mathemagicians should have an analogy in the way actual markets work. The analogy between Reagan's mythmaking and Lucas's isn't intended frivolously. Duns struggled throughout his works in demonstrating his univocity theory against Aquinas's analogy doctrine. It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it. In addition to substantive law, other legal aspects appear in both, such as the propensity towards use of analogy. In particular, this is one area where it is possible to see legal analogy in action. It came to be applied by analogy with similar bodies of traditional stories among other polytheistic cultures around the world. A distinction has to be made between analogous reasoning from written law and analogy to precedent case law. More recently, the name is sometimes simply given as Earth, by analogy with the names of the other planets. By analogy with the perceived decline of Latin, they applied the principle of ad fontes, or back to the sources, across broad areas of learning. There is an analogy between how profiling and perspectivalization work and the way the original Minskyan frames work. This vowel is sometimes informally referred to as schwi in analogy with schwa. This vowel is sometimes informally referred to as schwu in analogy with schwa. Once broadening affected a particular word, it tended to spread by analogy to its inflectional derivatives. Show More Sentences Rather and lather appear to have been subject to broadening later, and in fewer varieties of English, by analogy with father. The silent l in the spelling of could results from analogy with would and should. In cognitive linguistics, the notion of conceptual metaphor may be equivalent to that of analogy. The last few decades have shown a renewed interest in analogy, most notably in cognitive science. From there analogy was understood as identity of relation between any two ordered pairs, whether of mathematical nature or not. Analogy and abstraction are different cognitive processes, and analogy is often an easier one. While a hand and a foot have many dissimilarities, the analogy focuses on their similarity in having an inner surface. Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle actually used a wider notion of analogy. In all of these cases, the wide Platonic and Aristotelian notion of analogy was preserved. On the contrary, Ibn Taymiyya, Francis Bacon and later John Stuart Mill argued that analogy is simply a special case of induction. This view does not accept analogy as an autonomous mode of thought or inference, reducing it to induction. Moreover, induction tries to achieve general conclusions, while analogy looks for particular ones. Structural consistency is maximal when the analogy is an isomorphism, although lower levels are admitted. An analogy achieves its purpose insofar as it helps solve the problem at hand. Logicians analyze how analogical reasoning is used in arguments from analogy. Category theory takes the idea of mathematical analogy much further with the concept of functors. In law, analogy is used to resolve issues on which there is no previous authority. Analogies as defined in rhetoric are a comparison between words, but an analogy can be used in teaching as well. Step three is finding relevant features within the analogy of the two concepts. And finally, step six is drawing a conclusion about the analogy and comparison of the new material with the already learned material. Show More Sentences Beginning with Walla Crag and Bleaberry Fell in the north, the range climbs gradually to its apex at High Raise, the 'ankle' of the boot analogy. This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. Thus, by analogy, philosophical propositions will involve primitive terms, to be arrived at, undoubtably, by a kind of conceptual analysis. There is an alethic modal analogy we can use to show that denying DRD is not prima facie implausible. It strikes me as the perfect analogy for my stay at Finca Cortesin, where relaxation is more than just encouraged, it is compulsory. The kids love this analogy and it forces them to remember to not lift their drawing pencil and focus on making their contour lines continuous. Step five is indicating where the analogy breaks down between the two concepts. Nevertheless, such a synesthetic analogy cannot enable him to see or understand anything about colors. As an analogy, consider the battles of Crecy and Agincourt, where English longbowmen slaughtered the French knights charging them. If there is any analogy for our predicament, it is the story of the Tower of Babel, but of course the analogy is not understood outside the dwindling Judeo-Christian remnant. Besides the not very frequent filling of lacunae, analogy is very commonly used between different provisions in order to achieve substantial coherence. Pask in his Conversation Theory asserts there exists an analogy exhibiting both similarities and differences between any pair of the participants' internal models or concepts. Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending. Lastly, The incession or locall motion of animals is made with analogy unto this figure, by decussative diametrals, Quincunciall Lines and angles. This is similar to the structure mapping theory of analogy of Dedre Gentner, in that it formalizes the idea of analogy as a function which satisfies certain conditions. A problem for the multiconstraint theory arises from its concept of similarity, which, in this respect, is not obviously different from analogy itself. The Middle Age saw an increased use and theorization of analogy. This analogy is not comparing all the properties between a hand and a foot, but rather comparing the relationship between a hand and its palm to a foot and its sole. Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation. Show More Sentences Apparent exceptions are possible, due to analogy and other regularization processes, or another sound change, or an unrecognized conditioning factor. It seems to have adopted class 3 forms by analogy with cling etc. Although the city is situated opposite the mouth of the Main, the name of Mainz is not from Main, the similarity being perhaps due to diachronic analogy. While traces of this category survived elsewhere in Germanic, the phenomenon is largely obscured in these other languages by later sound changes and analogy. The public and policymakers came to understand the problem through a well-specified analogy, a metaphor, and an iconic image that capsulized the phenomenon. Nouns of this type tended to be drawn into the weak inflection by analogy. The analogy of these bases to metallic oxides and their valuable applications in medicine have rendered the class a favourite study with both chemists and pharmacians. This allows us to characterize distinct phases in the system, which we have denoted as synchronized and parasynchronized phases, in analogy with magnetism. Perhaps the best analogy is that Britannia is to the United Kingdom and the British Empire what Marianne is to France or perhaps what Columbia is to the United States. Blake saw an analogy between this and Newton's particle theory of light. Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process. Winchester Football could be considered a cross between football and rugby, though this analogy shouldn't be taken too far since there are significant differences. He criticised those whose faith was shaped by books and fashion, drawing an analogy between the scepticism of educated men and the credulity of the masses. Part 1 shows that Habermas's view that there is only an analogy between truth and rightness rests on an unjustified worry that metaethical cognitivism implies moral realism. Ambrose from drawing an explicit analogy between Abram's miraculous victory over four kings and the Nicaean council's similar victory over a dangerous heresy. Luick sought the reasons for the survival of voiced plosives in analogy. By analogy with CREOLE studies, John Honey posited a LECT continuum, ranging from the basilect to the acrolect, with many people reaching a paralect stage. Examples from Classical Literature It seemed an illicit way of arriving at information, and even had a vague analogy with listening at a key-hole. This argument founders on a false analogy between the self-avowed relativist and MacIntyre's target reader. So, using Robert Williams' analogy, that would be like comparing 10,000 small cats' paws with one elephant's foot. One of the many meanings of analogy is, Resemblance of Relations. The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him. The Lycian Confederacy, as far as its principles and form are transmitted, must have borne a still greater analogy to it. Now it was the fact that intelligence bearing some faint analogy to Esther's version of it was current among the townspeople. With all due respect, I think that 1984 and the concept of doublespeak might be a better analogy than the Stepford Wives, at least as far as the Journal goes. The main contention of this paper relies on detecting the existence of skill with the generalized binomial distribution, using an established analogy with winning in sports. I use the analogy of unbrushed teeth being like dirty dishes. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of analogy? Words that rhyme with analogy What is the plural of analogy? What is the adverb for analogy? What is the adjective for analogy? What is the noun for analogy? Translations for analogy Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words analogues analogue analogs analogous to analogous structures analogous structure analphabetic anal-retentive analysable analysand analyse analysed 7-letter Words Starting With a an ana anal analo analog