Helen Fenton

Analogy: Definition and part of speech

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Analogy

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. n. A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.
  4. n. Proportion; equality of ratios.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Analysis: Definition and part of speech

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Analysis

  1. n. The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.
  2. n. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
  3. n. The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
  4. n. The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
  5. n. The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
  6. n. A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.
  7. n. A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Analyst: Definition and part of speech

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Analyst

  1. n. One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.