FromLatin analogia Ancient Greek ἀναλογίᾱ ( analogíā ) , fromἀνα- ( ana- ) +λόγος ( lógos ,“ speech, reckoning ” ) .
analogy (countable anduncountable plural analogies
Arelationship ofresemblance orequivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis forexplanation orextrapolation .1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson , chapter 6, inEssays: First Series :Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without theiranalogy in the ebb and flow of love.
1869 Charles Dickens , chapter 18, inThe Uncommercial Traveller :Is there anyanalogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
1901 Edith Wharton , chapter 12, inThe Valley of Decision :The oldanalogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
1983 January 3, “How to Write Programs ”, inTime :Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simpleanalogy : hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
2002 Harlan Coben ,Gone for Good [1] →ISBN 75 :A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon theanalogy here — a weed.
( geometry ) proportion or theequality ofratios .( grammar ) genius of alanguage , as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity ofderivative orinflectional processes.relationship of resemblance or equivalence
Afrikaans:analogie Arabic:قِيَاس m ( qiyās ) Armenian:անալոգիա (hy) ( analogia ) ,համաբանություն (hy) ( hamabanutʻyun ) Bulgarian:аналогия (bg) f ( analogija ) ,подобие (bg) n ( podobie ) Catalan:analogia (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:類推 / 类推 (zh) ( lèituī ) ,類比 / 类比 (zh) ( lèibǐ ) ,類似 / 类似 (zh) ( lèisì ) Czech:analogie (cs) f Danish:analogi c Dutch:analogie (nl) f Esperanto:analogio Estonian:analoogia Finnish:analogia (fi) French:analogie (fr) f German:Analogie (de) f Greek:αναλογία (el) f ( analogía ) Hungarian:analógia (hu) Indonesian:analogi (id) Irish:analach f Italian:analogia (it) f somiglianza (it) f equivalenza (it) f Japanese:類推 (ja) ( るいすい, ruisui ) ,アナロジー (ja) ( anarojī ) ,類似 (ja) ( るいじ, ruiji ) ,類比 ( るいひ, ruihi ) Korean:유추 (ko) ( yuchu ) Maltese:b’analoġija f Persian:مانسته (fa) ( mâneste ) ,تشبیه (fa) ( tašbih ) Polish:analogia (pl) f Portuguese:analogia (pt) f Romanian:analogie (ro) f Russian:анало́гия (ru) f ( analógija ) ,схо́дство (ru) n ( sxódstvo ) ,подо́бие (ru) n ( podóbije ) Serbo-Croatian:nȃlika (sh) f Cyrillic:анало̀гија f Latin:analògija (sh) f Slovene:analogija (sl) f Spanish:analogía (es) f Swahili:analojia (sw) classn Swedish:analogi (sv) c Tagalog:analohiya Turkish:analoji (tr) Ukrainian:анало́гія (uk) f ( analóhija ) Vietnamese:loại suy Volapük:naalog
geometry: proportion or the equality of ratios
Bulgarian:please add this translation if you can
grammar: similarity of derivative or inflectional processes
Arabic:قِيَاس m ( qiyās ) Bulgarian:please add this translation if you can
