Analogy

Hydraulic analogy A hydraulic analogy is sometimes used to describe Ohm's law.

This analogy is immediately followed by the Analogy of the Cave at 514a.

Analogies are a limited tool, but a physical-world analogy might be shutting down Central Park because crime occurs there – or perhaps more provocatively, destroying the universe because it contains evil.

A simple analogy helps to drive this point home: you can read as many books on swimming as you like, listen to endless lectures on the subject, but unless you get in the water and actually try it out, you’re not going to learn how to swim.

A TikToker has revealed a motivational analogy that helps her get through hard times - and others are being inspired to implement it into their own lives.

Besides using the analogy of a drunk taken to sobering up in the worst of ways, I could've also said I've forsaken Coke for Diet Coke, or two scoops of ice cream for one.

Cowen then proceeded to offer an analogy between the eviction ban and sweets, a decision which has seen the TD face widespread criticism online for what many observers viewed as downplaying a serious issue which impacts much of society.

Emmer offered a more specific hockey analogy.

Former Rep Adam Kinzinger has a brief analogy to why the House has to keep having votes to name a speaker.

If Everton are the proverbial patient in Sorensen's pithy analogy, then the hard-fought Merseyside derby win that followed their League Cup defeat did, at least, help revive them.

If one finds a beautiful flower, never pluck it and analyse it under a microscope, feels actor Kay Kay Menon, who draws the analogy for late actor Irrfan Khan’s son Babil.

In analogy to that the soundtrack is based on archive recordings of early 20th century machinery, on top of which play analog synthesizers and drums.

In these cases, the old analogy, “the early bird gets the worm” couldn’t be truer.

Let me illustrate how that works with an analogy.

LOLtron acknowledges Jude Terror's droid-charging station analogy, it computes as 67.9% amusing.

Mervin Jebaraj, economist with the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, offers a gymnastics analogy for the Federal Reserve Bank’s handling of the tumultuous economy.

Ryunah Kang ’26 offered thoughtful and well-researched criticism of the ways society and the government exercise control over the female body, using the analogy of a building to illustrate each point.

That analogy, far from being merely a hint of Affleck and Damon’s personal investment in the story of “Air,” is at the core of Affleck’s direction.

The best analogy is someone who thinks the produce is better in a small neighborhood grocery store than in a big box store, but both stores purchase their produce from the same farms.

The Elmo/Twatter analogy is strong with this story.