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analogy | univocal |

As a noun analogy

is a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.

As an adjective univocal is

having only one possible meaning.

analogy

English

(wikipedia analogy)

Noun

(analogies)
  • A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
  • * 1841 , , Essays: First Series , ch. 6:
    • Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
  • * 1869 , , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 18:
    • Is there any analogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
  • * 1901 , , The Valley of Decision , ch. 12:
    • The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
  • * 1983 , " How to Write Programs," Time , 3 Jan.:
    • Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy : hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
  • * 2002 , , Gone for Good , ISBN 9780440236733, p. 75:
    • A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.

    Derived terms

    * disanalogy * false analogy

    Related terms

    * analogue

    See also

    * metaphor * simile * example * homology * parable * parallelism English words prefixed with ana-

    univocal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having only one possible meaning.
  • * 1999 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 146:
    • There were, he argued, some words, such as ‘fat’ or ‘exhausted’, that could not apply to God, but if such terms as ‘being’, ‘goodness’ or ‘wisdom’ were not univocal of God and creatures, ‘one could not naturally have any concept of God – which is false.’
  • Containing only one vowel.
    • "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama." contains only the vowel 'a', making it univocal .
  • Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music.
  • Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • unequivocal; indubitable
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Synonyms

    * definite * unambiguous * unequivocal

    Antonyms

    * ambiguous * equivocal

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