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simile

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin simile "a like thing; a comparison, likeness, parallel," neuter of similis "like" (see similar ). Both things must be mentioned and the comparison directly stated. To Johnson, "A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble ...

Usage examples of simile.

Gardner accepted his sister the way he might have accepted - Asey tried to think of a suitable simile as he climbed into the roadster.

A foreign simile would be to liken Basho to a pearl, and Buson to a diamond.

Rancourt was the other side of Combles, which explains the plum simile.

Old Gower, too, has his Religion of Nature, with free admission for women, whom he worships in similes, running away from them, leering sheepishly.

Attilio aveva fatta la dimanda: se le sentinelle erano a posto: il lume, dopo la risposta affermativa, aveva rischiarato le austere fisionomie dei nostri giovani, quando un fischio simile a sibilo di serpente fece risuonare le antiche volte dello speco.

There were probably a thousand good Tarheel similes to choose from, but for once his southern talk failed him.

Un suono simile rispose da una capanna di guardia, situata sopra uno dei detti tumuli, capanna che Orazio certo doveva conoscere e della quale i suoi compagni non si erano accorti.

Hades by metonymy for the grave, or have imagined that a shadowy fac simile of what was interred in the grave went into the grim kingdom of Pluto.

As stars flash into light, so he flashes into metaphor, metonymy, trope, personification, or simile.

Riveted, Margo sat there, her eyes glued to the figure that reminded her of some monstrous raven, a logical simile, because Alban Sark was unquestionably a creature of prey.

The savage unwittingness bred out of him by tasks he could still sense, could taste but not remember, puzzles to solve and paradoxes to resolve, oh I see, I get it, but whatever had they been, duality, identity, metaphor and simile.

Chief of Surgery Burgess, dying a slow, half-century death in this city where reading span is sorely stretched by the instructions on microwave popcorn, instantly imagines that in Kraft he has found a kindred literate spirit, a simile son.

Ma simile a molti generali che sprecando e disseminando la loro gente per eccesso di precauzioni su troppi punti, con sentinelle, picchetti, distaccamenti, osservazioni, ecc.

We are mostly reduced to similes and metaphors, to comparing wines with more familiar substances.

The mountains were bigger and grander than ever, as they stood there thinking their solemn thoughts with their heads in the drifting clouds, but the villages at their feet--when the painstaking eye could trace them up and find them--were so reduced, almost invisible, and lay so flat against the ground, that the exactest simile I can devise is to compare them to ant-deposits of granulated dirt overshadowed by the huge bulk of a cathedral.