Analogy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANALOGY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a figure of speech involving a comparison
• a correspondence or partial similarity
• a thing which 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.
• a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification
• similarity in some respects
• A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.
• A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.
• Proportion; equality of ratios.
• Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.
• an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
• drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
• the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• resemblance in some respects between things otherwise unlike

Words related to ANALOGY

analogic11 analogical13 analogically18 analogies10 analogist10 analogists11

Words that contain ANALOGY

disanalogy15

How to use ANALOGY in a sentence

• Moreover, it would be possible to pursue the analogy farther.
• But every such analogy would make the process of transition easier and prevent the necessity of any general legislative act of change.
• This is not a pleasant prospect to contemplate, but the analogy is fairly compelling.
• A lighted fire on the grave has a strong connection with this idea, as if they deemed some mysterious analogy to exist between spirituality and fire.
• The words tyrannical and tyranny follow the same analogy.
• A thought revealed an unexpected analogy between him and his victim.
• The rules of syntax are likewise based upon analogy.
• Later examples elsewhere show us by analogy how it first came into existence.
• But where the analogy breaks down altogether is in the matter of obstacles to reform.
• Their forms and phrases are largely the result of chance and partial survival, arbitrary usage, and false analogy.
• Reasoning by analogy, we may affirm that, as life has been given us, so it will be given us again and forever.
• By the same analogy we may trace the true history of Terambus, the Deity of Egypt, who was called the Shepherd Terambus.
• Once, seeking an analogy, I called him the Hindenburg of the novel.
• Apparently it was grafted upon or rose out of that of fire by the analogy I have pointed out.
• In the far north the Eskimo tongue presents the same analogy.
• At the same time they will spell the word in all kinds of queer ways, which are in analogy only with exceptions, not with regular formations.
• Analogy or proportion is when the second term is to the first as the fourth to the third.
• The gentleman, Sir, finds analogy where I see none.
• If this suggestion seems too fanciful, there is still recourse to the law of analogy in finding the thing we seek.
• By analogy therefore, the colonies ought to remain subject to their mother city.
• Everywhere in nature tone is gradual, and between the fainting of a tone and the failing of a curve there is a charming analogy.
• But even allowing the centre of perception to be double, I can see no good reason for supposing this indefinite lengthening of the time, nor any analogy that bears it out.
• But then, still in bed, she made an analogy of sex to stale potato chips, which upon occasion she did not mind eating for the salt that was contained there.
• But here the bearing of this series of facts on bodily health provides us with a useful analogy.
• This being the case, the analogy of birds makes me believe in sexual selection with respect to colour in insects.

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