simile
Collocations
3VERB + SIMILE
made, prefaced, use
SIMILE + NOUN
george, powder-mine
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
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.
Similarity or resemblance to something else; likeness, similitude.
Something similar that's not a clone.
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5He 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
WiktionaryThe 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 fan
WiktionaryWhat 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
WiktionaryCan't we use a simile here?
Tatoeba · #25225A simile is like a bridge.
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