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analogous

When mathx/math is analogous to mathy/math, it is similar to mathy/math. Using that little broom to sweep this big floor is analogous to using a candle to cook dinner for 40 people. The development of the new DVD with multiple formats is analogous to the video wars between beta and VHS.

analogous

similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar brains and computers are often considered analogous salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous

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Simple sentences

The human heart is analogous to a pump.
Your situation is analogous to mine.

Movie subtitles

Well I expect myself their basic form is analogous to a Kethlapod.
Well, by constructing a sonar device analogous to the laser.
Probably analogous to the laser. Well, go on!
Look, for years it has been thought one can run the home, educationally analogous to the family, but that is not so readily achieved.
It's analogous to the way leeches consume haemoglobin.
The relationship between anti-time and normal time is analogous to that between antimatter and normal matter.
Superimpose this leukocyte with an analogous sample taken from yesterday.
And, uh, these metal plates here are analogous to our vertebrae.
Look here, man, my fiduciary responsibility. to this first all-black promotion. is analogous to a garden in the African sun-- it must grow, it must bloom.
This node is analogous to the human pineal gland.
However. though no precedent can be found in Irish law. we can argue from an analogous English case.
I would like to know. whether reigning conditions are here analogous hereinto from Frankfurt.
It is analogous to dodging bullets in a hale of gunfire from multiple machine guns.
His newly suggested dialogue was analogous to a script Jesse might have originated.
But our informants said that Professor Stanciulescu had worked with a somewhat analogous case of rejuvenation induced by a bolt of lightning.
It's analogous to communism.
And this is analogous to a real black hole, where light waves cannot escape due to the strong gravitation.
It's an analogous compound.
Then I'm going to stimulate the analogous area in the brain of a rhesus monkey and see if he cries. Cool, huh?
So I'm gonna bring up Jeff and you're gonna say it's not analogous and somehow, we're gonna end up back on FDR!
I'm listening to upbeat music because taking the test is analogous to eating drain hair.
If we can increase his blood volume with some genetically analogous whole blood cells.
The conscious path of the transient nature of adult records is a mathematical law analogous to the comprehensive path of continuous tradition.
They may well have switching elements analogous to our neurons but their neurons might be different.
The situation is analogous to understanding the grammar of a language but none of the vocabulary.
Our theory of law would be analogous.
No, but there were intriguingly analogous results from, believe it or not. the tablecloth.
The oxidized scratches are analogous to remodeled bone breaks, indicating they happened quite some time ago.
Then I'm going to stimulate the analogous area in the brain of a rhesus monkey and see if he cries.
Bender Rodriguez, you are charged with petty larceny, possession of something analogous to drugs, and assault with a smelly weapon.
Mister Campbell was only pointing out to his colleagues how analogous certain aspects of the front-page article regarding the generation of electrical impulses are to the subject of your lecture today.

News and current affairs

I have likened the distribution of power in politics today as analogous to a three-dimensional chess game.
For some, September 11, 2001, was analogous to 1938, or even 1940.
To be sure, the Brown precedent is not entirely analogous, for there the Supreme Court gave weight to foreign policy considerations in just the way that the federal executive had urged.
This top-level governance architecture is analogous to a computer's operating system, which orchestrates the other software and hardware components to form a holistic unity.
Unfortunately, there is an analogous picture elsewhere in the EU.
The motivation of the candidates who will join in 2004 is analogous.
The analogous approach for Greece is to convert its current bonds into GDP-linked bonds.
We have to hope that the same kind of outcome will emerge from the financial scandals that have produced public outrage analogous to that directed at the food industries in Upton Sinclair's day.
Including such statements in the disclosure is analogous to the requirement that food labels contain a full list of nutritional factors per serving, rather than merely a featured list that the producer might try to add in order to promote the product.
And yet it is absurd to compare the power of the two phenomena, or to suggest that in the confrontation with the butchers of Mosul and Palmyra, the democracies face a strategic challenge analogous to that of the Nazi Wehrmacht.
The Palestinians' demand for the right of return has an analogous meaning.
Obviously, analogous questions can be extended to the selection of many other traits that are not essential to the health of the resulting offspring.
In Russian history, there is an analogous situation.
It would be unrealistic to think that the FSB could direct countries to strengthen their regulation, but it should have some form of arbitration power analogous to that held by the World Trade Organization.
There is no analogous set of floodlights being deployed to erase the shadow that is currently being cast by the lesser depression.
On top of this, farming is presented as analogous to the military.
The US, for its part, recognized that it needed a central bank analogous to the Bank of England.
Analogous guarantees and bank bailouts have occurred in the other major economies (the ECB does not play this role for Europe; national governments do).
Among its proposals, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System recommends that investment products like mutual funds should include a standardized disclosure label analogous to the nutritional labels on foods.
This requirement is analogous to that of nutrition labeling, which does not allow listing of nutritional quantities that are not significant in the usual serving size.
The European Central Bank's response has been analogous to the Fed's, but less forceful, with monetary policy easier than the headline inflation rate would suggest is appropriate.
What is happening today is analogous to developments a few decades ago, early in the era of personal computers.
Now is the moment to launch an analogous effort to reform and rationalize the political process that produces fiscal policy.
An analogous power grab is being attempted in Africa.
And analogous problems exist in Western Europe (e.g., for loans to Eastern Europe) and Asia.

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