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Definition: ANALOGIES |
ANALOGIESPlural1. Of Analogy |
Date "ANALOGIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Crosswords: ANALOGIES |
| English words defined with "ANALOGIES": analogist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ANALOGIES": Analogy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ANALOGIES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Afrikaan (analogous). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fleshing out analogies. (Andy Richter Controls the Universe; writing credit: John Banas) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Author | Quotation |
C. Simmons | Those who reason only by analogies, rarely reason by logic, and are generally slaves to imagination. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rudy Giuliani | I use analogies to sports quite a bit, because I've learned a lot from playing baseball and watching baseball and football and basketball and boxing. It's taught me a lot about leadership. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ANALOGIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.81% of the time. "ANALOGIES" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.81% | 166 | 24,220 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ANALOGIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 比喻 (Analogy). (various references) | |
French | aptitude à établir des analogies (capacity to make analogies). (various references) | |
German | Analogien. (various references) | |
Italian | capacità di costruire analogie (capacity to make analogies). (various references) | |
Korean | 유례 (Analogy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | analogiesay.(various references) | |
Spanish | capacidad para crear analogías (capacity to make analogies). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"ANALOGIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: analoge, analogie, analomies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ANALOGIES" (pronounced una"lujēz) |
| 5 | -l u j ē z | anthologies, apologies, biotechnologies, chronologies, doxologies, etiologies, eulogies, ideologies, methodologies, pathologies. |
| 4 | -u j ē z | prodigies, strategies. |
| 3 | -j ē z | allergies, energies, orgies, phalanges, refugees, synergies, technologies, veggies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: gasoline. | |
-2 letters: aeolian, agnails, agnosia, agonies, agonise, analogs, anisole, anlages, eloigns, galenas, goalies, lasagne, leasing, legions, linages, lingoes, logania, longies, sealing, soilage. | |
-3 letters: agnail, agonal, agones, algins, aliens, aligns, alines, aloins, analog, angels, angles, anlage, anoles, easing, elains, eloign, eloins, eolian, galeas, galena, genial, genoas, gleans, goalie, ingles, insole, lagans, lanais, lanose, lasing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: analogizes. | |
+2 letters: allegations, diagnosable, gestational, zabagliones. | |
+3 letters: alloantigens, diagnoseable, diagonalizes, gallinaceous, megalomanias. | |
+4 letters: angioplasties, campanologies, deflagrations, deglaciations, flagellations, galactosamine, halogenations, legalizations, megalomaniacs, narratologies, planographies, thanatologies, undiagnosable. | |
+5 letters: agglomerations, bougainvilleas, degranulations, dogmaticalness, galactosamines, generalisation, megalopolitans, oleomargarines, paleomagnetism, paleomagnetist, progestational, spermatogonial. | |
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