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What is the difference between simile and phoenix?

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As nouns the difference between simile and phoenix

is that simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of english generally using like'' or ''as while phoenix is (mythology) a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun it then arises anew from the ashes.

simile

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like'' or ''as .
  • A simile is like a metaphor.
  • * 1925 , Fruit of the Flower , by
  • My father is a quiet man -- With sober, steady ways; -- For simile , a folded fan; -- His nights are like his days.

    Hypernyms

    * figure of speech

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * metaphor * * - an appendix containing many similes

    Anagrams

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    phoenix

    Alternative forms

    * phenix, , pheonix

    Noun

  • (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
  • (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.
  • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
  • (mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.
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