ANALOGIES
Noun
analogies
plural of analogy
Anagrams
• analogise
Source: Wiktionary
ANALOGY
A*nal"o*gy, n.; pl. Analogies. Etym: [L. analogia, Gr. analogie. See
Analogous.]
1. 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.
Note: Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an analogy
between these objects, or one thing has an analogy to or with
another.
Note: Analogy is very commonly used to denote similarity or essential
resemblance; but its specific meaning is a similarity of relations,
and in this consists the difference between the argument from example
and that from analogy. In the former, we argue from the mere
similarity of two things; in the latter, from the similarity of their
relations. Karslake.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or
parts which are decidedly different.
3. (Geom.)
Definition: Proportion; equality of ratios.
4. (Gram.)
Definition: 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 pl. analogies. Johnson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition