simile
nounEtymology
From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Compare English similar.
Definitions
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like…
A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.
- He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]
- The second was a fancy, which amounts to a mania, for similes, strung together in endless lists, and derived as a rule from animals, vegetables, or minerals, especially from the Fauna and Flora of fancy.
- What follows should be prefaced with some simile—the simile of a powder-mine, a thunderbolt, an earthquake—for it blew Philip up in the air and flattened him on the ground and swallowed him up in the depths.
Similarity or resemblance to something else
Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
Something similar that's not a clone.
The neighborhood
- neighbormetaphor
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at simile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at simile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at simile
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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