Commensurate vs Analogy - What's the difference?
commensurate | analogy |
Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
To reduce to a common measure.
To proportionate; to adjust.
A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
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* 2002 , , Gone for Good , ISBN 9780440236733,
As an adjective commensurate
is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.As a verb commensurate
is to reduce to a common measure.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.commensurate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own. - Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam by Senator Mike Mansfield, December 18, 1962
Antonyms
* incommensurateVerb
(commensurat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
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English
(wikipedia analogy)Noun
(analogies)- Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
- Is there any analogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
- The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
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.
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- A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
