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.

Noun

(lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion —which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!”

(lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.

(lb) Proper or equal share.

*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

*:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.

The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.

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*(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)

*:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.

* (1800-1859)

*:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.

A statement of equality between two ratios.

Size.

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