analogous

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• perform: For Merleau-Ponty, it is often the work of artists that performs something analogous to his notion of the reduction.
• have: These policies had effects analogous to pouring gasoline on a burning building.
• make: If we look at style as an organism, style-markers are its genetic material - making this project analogous to the human genome project.

Modifies a noun

• manner: In an analogous manner normalized precision is worked out.
• proceeding: The provisions do not apply to any compulsory purchase order or analogous order proceedings.
• situation: The analogous situation happened in the case of the campaign against the mink whales hunt in Europe.
• phenomenon: When Sufi writers discuss the analogous phenomena of ecstasy, they commonly do so in a chapter entitled ' Concerning the Sama ' .
• fashion: Dretske argues that artificial selection can create new features and that, in an analogous fashion, natural selection can too.
• function: The functions are designed to mimic the analogous file system functions in the standard Unix file system interface.

Modifying Another Word

• roughly: This would be roughly analogous to a criminal gaining access to insides of the telephone system or a police station.
• somewhat: This is somewhat analogous to picking the " best " vacation spot, or the " best " outfit to wear.
• broadly: This would provide the publisher with a single payment broadly analogous with a library purchase.
• precisely: In this it is precisely analogous to the English man ( or men ).
• closely: Junk email is closely analogous to the junk mail that we all get in the post.
• exactly: The attack on the World Trade Center was exactly analogous to Pearl Harbor.

Used with adjective complement

• regard: Such funds, although legally constituted as trusts, were generally regarded as analogous to guarantee funds rather than trust funds.
• seem: Seems analogous to the ' less is more ' effect.
• see: The land and the human body might have been seen as analogous on several levels.
• prove: We don't believe that 802.11a will prove analogous to Betamax.
• become: The transparency of the architecture becomes analogous to the openness of the symposium.