Sept vs Analogy - What's the difference?
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A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor. (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland)
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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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* 1869 , , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 18:
* 1901 , , The Valley of Decision , ch. 12:
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* 2002 , , Gone for Good , ISBN 9780440236733,
As nouns the difference between sept and analogy
is that sept is a clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in ireland) while analogy is a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.sept
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(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.
