Monday, July 1, 2013

Daily Word: ANALOGY

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a·nal·o·gy

  [uh-nal-uh-jee] 

~ noun, plural a·nal·o·gies.

DEFINITION: 1)A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based. 2)Similarity or comparability. 3)Biology. An analogous relationship. 4)Linguistics. A.The process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the languageas when shoon  was re-formed as shoes,  when -ize  is added to nouns like winter  to form verbsor when a child says foots for feet. B.A form resulting from such a process. 5)Logic. A form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.

SENTENCE: Most people try to draw strong analogies between poverty and crime, but I think its deeper than that. 

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