Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who makes, looks for, or reasons from analogies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who employs or argues from analogy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
reasons fromanalogy , orrepresents by an analogy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy
Etymologies
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Examples
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(I'm not the best sports analogist you will ever find - if you have a better one, please, feel free).
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These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.
Nature 2006
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I am also an avowed and unrepentant analogist when it comes to reading the Bible.
Why isn't the germ theory a "religion"? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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There were several indicators and it wasn't pieced together, but, Miles, it's analogist to the news industry.
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The various kinds of tracts have different times for becoming ` ` myelinated '' as was the discovery of the great analogist, Flechsig.
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These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.
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"As you can see, we're not really what a lot of people portray us as," William Wells, the Afghanistan analogist, told me, after apologizing for the mud stains on his jeans, which he attributed to harvesting pinot gris earlier in the day.
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But it's clearly very close to analogist who has some of the same economics.
Credit Suisse CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha 2010
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Hunt's concluding page referred to Updike as "an analogist of fall and possible redemption."
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Hunt's concluding page referred to Updike as "an analogist of fall and possible redemption."
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