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ANALOGIES
- ANALOGY, resemblance in some respects between things otherwise unlike [n]
- A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
- A correspondence or partial similarity
- A thing that is comparable to something else in significant respects
- A process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects
- A process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones
- The resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin