OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6703

analogy

/əˈnæləd͡ʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
analogía
A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
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.
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