- a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
- similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
- an analogous relationship.
- Linguistics.
- the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.
- a form resulting from such a process.
- a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.
- agreement or similarity, esp in a certain limited number of features or details
- a comparison made to show such a similarity
- the relationship between analogous organs or parts
- a form of reasoning in which a similarity between two or more things is inferred from a known similarity between them in other respects
- imitation of existing models or regular patterns in the formation of words, inflections, etc
