Look up: simile

1. Simile
   a figure of speech using 'as' or 'like' for an explicit comparison.
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2. Simile
   an explicit comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'.
   *My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Shakespeare, Sonnet CXLVII
   *Reason is to faith as the eye to the telescope. D. Hume [?]
   *Let us go then, you and I, While the evening is spread ou...
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3. Simile
   The explicit comparison of two objects/phenomenon/states  etc - by employing either 'as' or 'like' e.g. 'My love is like a red, red rose' by Robert Burns. Another famous simile is 'Like a patient etherised upon a table;' from the start of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.
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4. simile
   [n] - a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like` or `as`)
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5. Simile
   a figure of speech in which one thing is directly likened to another
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6. Simile
   a literary device whereby two things or actions are compared to each other, linked by the words 'as' or 'like'. e.g. The litter drifted round the playground like tattered butterflies lost in flight.
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7. Simile
   the writer creates an image in readers' minds by comparing a subject to something else: as happy as a lark; as strong as an ox. Many similes are idiomatic: he smokes like a chimney.
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8. Simile
   Sim'i·le noun ; plural Similes . [ Latin , from similis . See Similar .] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative...
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9. simile
   noun a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like` or `as`)
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10. Simile
    • (n.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
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11. simile
    figure of speech involving a comparison between two unlike entities. In the simile, unlike the metaphor, the resemblance is explicitly indicated by ... [5 related articles]
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12. simile
    simile (s), similes (pl) 1. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as. 2. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds.
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13. simile
    a comparison made with 'as,' 'like,' or 'than.'
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14. simile
    An explicit comparison. A linking of two words or things because there are similarities in parts between them. In contrast to a metaphor which says that something is something else, a simile says that something is like something else. Similes are used in connection with words such as 'like' or 'as'.
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15. simile
    simile (sim'ulē) [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns's poem “A Red Red Rose” contains two straightforward similes:My love is like a red, red rose   That's newly sprung in June: My ...
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16. Simile
    A simile is a literary device of description by comparison, as in 'he slept like a log'.
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17. simile
    (language) Figure of speech that in English uses the conjunctions like and as to express the comparison between two different things (`run like the devil`; `as d eaf as a post`). It is sometimes confused with metaphor. The simile mak...
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18. Simile
    A `simile` is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like", "as", or "than". Even though both similes and metaphors are forms of comparison, similes indirectly compare the two ideas and allow them to remain distin...
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19. Simile
    (computer virus) `Win32/Simile` (also known as Etap and MetaPHOR) is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly language for Microsoft Windows. The virus was released in the most recent version in early March 2002. It was written by the virus writer Mental Driller. Some of his previous ...
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20. Simile
    (disambiguation) A `simile` is a figure of speech making an explicit comparison. `Simile` or `Similes` may also refer to: ;Species names: See also: ;Related words: ;Similar spellings:
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21. SIMILE
    `SIMILE` is a joint research project run by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and CSAIL and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Focused on developing tools to increase the interoperability of disparate digital collections, much of SIMILE`s te...
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