adjective. Similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy.

adjective. Similar in function but not in structure and evolutionary origin.

In general, having analogy; corresponding (to something else) in some particular or particulars, while differing in others; bearing some resemblance or proportion: sometimes loosely used for similar.

Specifically In chem., closely alike, but differing in some degree as to each of the more prominent characters.

In botany, resembling in form but not in plan of structure.

In biology, similar physiologically but not anatomically; like in function but not in structure: the opposite of homologous. See analogy, 5.

In logic, from Albertus Magnus down to modern writers, applied to terms which are homonymous or equivocal in a special way, namely, those in which the identity of sound is not accidental, but is based upon a trope or upon some other reason.

In all senses used with to, sometimes with. Synonyms Correspondent, similar, like.

adjective. Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.

adjective. that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

adjective. Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion;—often followed by "to".

adjective. similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

adjective. corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin

"The title “Son of God,” or simply “Son,” [1] thus became for Jesus a title analogous to “Son of man,” and, like that, synonymous with the"

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