Clues for the word "ANALOGY"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 44 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on December 25, 2024.
Definition of analogy
- n. - A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.
- n. - A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.
- n. - Proportion; equality of ratios.
- n. - Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.
Referring Clues
- Explanatory tool
- Four-colon relationship
- Comparison
- Comparability
- Similarity comparison
- Where "is to" is used
- SAT question, formerly
- The clue for 25-Across, e.g.
- SAT staple
- Pump for a heart, e.g.
- Kind of comparison
- Explanatory comparison tool
- Good as gold, e.g.
- A record about which there's some correspondence?
- A PC crashing is like a person's hypersensitivity, say
- IQ test challenge
- Correspondence, resemblance
- Any envelope for a record correspondence?
- A record in unspecified parallel
- Former SAT question type
- Similarity
- "A is to B as C is to D," e.g.
- One often has four colons
- "Tree is to leaf as flower is to petal," e.g.
- Illuminating example
Last Seen In
- LA Times - December 25, 2024
- Daily American - November 27, 2024
- New York Times - June 22, 2024
- USA Today - December 22, 2023
- Daily American - December 09, 2023
- Daily American - December 08, 2023
- Daily American - December 02, 2023
- Daily American - November 27, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - January 02, 2018
- Daily American - December 09, 2017
- Daily American - December 08, 2017
- Daily American - December 02, 2017
- LA Times - June 11, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 17, 2016
- Universal - December 11, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - June 27, 2016
- Netword - December 22, 2013
- Netword - December 19, 2013
- New York Times - July 04, 2013
- Guardian Speedy - April 28, 2013
- Netword - April 13, 2013
- Jonesin - March 05, 2013
- Onion A.V. Club - October 10, 2012
- New York Times - February 06, 2012
- Netword - November 24, 2011
- Thinks Daily - November 27, 2010
- Washington Post - July 16, 2010
- Thinks Daily - July 08, 2010
- Thinks Daily - July 02, 2010
- Universal - June 23, 2010
- And in 14 more crossword puzzles...