Analogy in a sentence as a noun

It's not an analogy; it's just one of the meanings of the word.

Of course, this is really just an analogy, and it's more than just a feeling.

The analogy is kind of right and kind of wrong, in a totally unhelpful way.

Sure, the analogy isn't perfect, but what happens if we take the idea seriously?

I think the heart surgery analogy is excellent.

An analogy for a memristor is an interesting kind of pipe that expands or shrinks when water flows through it.

My favorite analogy for US security policy during the past two decades is a huge allergic reaction.

An analogy is that our GI and GI microbiota are essentially a recently discovered vital organ.

To make another analogy a well done dish at a nice restaurant isn't usually innovative, it just takes the best of breed components and presents them well in a good atmosphere with good service.

Well, to make an analogy, how would the behavior of startup founders change if they no longer had a tiny chance of a big payout someday?I do not know why US education keeps getting more expensive.

How's this for an analogy;"Electricity supply companies have found that almost 30% of the total electricity capacity in their networks is being consumed by customer's light bulbs.

The analogy highlights the rhetorical technique of abstracting something to such a degree that opposition seems unreasonable.

The "tubes to transistors" analogy is not just marketing speak: Compared to cellular, pCell is far more reliable, enables much smaller and lower power device and can be continually extended in density.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a memristor is, as I was, HP has an easy-to-understand analogy on its FAQ page about memristors:"A common analogy for a resistor is a pipe that carries water.

Another had a better analogy: "It's like having a busload of grumpy senior citizens show up at your store, picking through stuff, complaining about the prices, going on about irrelevant things, and generally being ornery, obnoxious and trashing everything that you've done.

I think the analogy is if thousands of brilliant engineers were working for a fossil-fuel power company - it would be a natural reaction to say "Gee I wish all those boffins were working on renewable energy instead".You might not agree with it, but it is a legitimate sentiment.

Analogy definitions

noun

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

noun

drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"

noun

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate