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The word _simile_ [Transcriber's Note: Corrected error "similie"] (sometimes _segue_) indicates that a certain effect previously begun is to be continued, as _e. g._, staccato playing, pedalling, style of bowing in violin music, etc.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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Sometimes you can capture two or three dimensions (sight, taste, sound etc) in one good similie than in a whole sheaf of exposition.
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The similie reaches for a higher tone than the rest of the book.
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As for the book, it is "supposed to be phenomenal", but I must say like the movie, the language is largely dumbed down, and any attempt the author makes at similie, metaphor or irony, he makes sure to explain and point out to death, not trusting his audience to draw their own conclusions/make their own connections.
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Do you think "sweet as..." was ever a complete similie?
Learning new words StyleyGeek 2008
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These are descriptions that build their objects from within, organically, through word-association and oh-so-accurate similie.
Fahrenheit 451 Fathorse 2007
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These are descriptions that build their objects from within, organically, through word-association and oh-so-accurate similie.
Archive 2007-05-01 Fathorse 2007
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So much sense that almost anyone can relate to it and see the similie that is drawn without having to understand terms in computereze.
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A metaphor or similie is a powerfully misleading trope, sometimes.
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I will sneak in a little off-color similie that just came too mind.
Think Progress » Marine Corps begins involuntary troop recalls. 2006
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