analogous Definition
analo·gous (ə nal′ə gəs)
adjective
- similar or comparable in certain respects
- Biol. similar in function but not in origin and structure
Etymology: L analogus < Gr analogos: see analogy
analogous Related Forms
anal′o·gously adverb
analogous Synonyms
analogous Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near analogous
- ‹ analogize
- ‹ analogical
- ‹ analog-to-digital converter
- ‹ analog computer
- ‹ analog
- ‹ analgesic
- ‹ analgesia
- ‹ analeptic
- ‹ analemma
- ‹ analects
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