analogy

benzetme, analoji

Farklı şeyler arasındaki benzerlik; birini diğerine benzeterek açıklamak için sıkça kullanılır.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A similarity between different things, often used to explain one by comparing it with another.

• That is a useful analogy.
• She used an analogy to explain how electricity flows.
• There are several analogies between these two political systems.

Nasıl kullanılır: analogy between A and B (She drew an analogy between the brain and a computer.); analogy with something (He explained the system through an analogy with a family.)

Eş anlamlılar: comparison, parallel, similarity

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: draw an analogy, a useful analogy, analogy between things, by analogy