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[ah-NAL-ah-gahs] 
1. correspondent or bearing some resemblance, allowing an analogy to be drawn: "Joanna's early success in sports helped attain her to analogous sucess in her professional career."
2. (as in biology) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin; 'the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous'
adverb form: analogously
noun form: analogousness
Origin:
Approximately 1646; from Latin, 'analogus'; from Greek, 'analogos': proportionate, from 'ana logon': according to due ratio ('ana': according to, up, upon + 'logon,' accusative of 'logos': ratio, reason). In action:
"Same-sex legal partnerships -- though not full-fledged marriages -- were first approved in Europe in the Nordic countries. Fifteen years ago Denmark recognized 'registered partnerships,' which gave gay and lesbian couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians in April 2001 by jettisoning all distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages. 'In the Netherlands, we don't have gay marriage,' says Henk Krol, an activist who was knighted by Queen Beatrix for his advocacy of gay rights. 'We only have one marriage, civil, open to any couple.'
Opinion polls attest to a growing acceptance of gay marriage -- one recent poll (commissioned by Elle) in France found 64% of those questioned favored it. But for the Roman Catholic Church, it amounts to an abomination. The Vatican laid out its position against the trend in a 12-page judgment last summer, thundering that 'there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and the family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law.' Muslim authorities are as adamantly opposed to it, and in France the Protestant Church has expressed reservations."
James Graff. "Summer Of Love," [Move over, San Francisco. France is about to celebrate its first gay wedding. Is Europe ready for equal rites?] Time Europe (May. 30, 2004).
"'Because it is a protein hormone, Ovaplant is destroyed very quickly,' Prof. Sherwood said. 'There could be a tiny amount of the hormone released into the fish urine and eggs, but it would be destroyed as well.'
Still, John Volpe, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Alberta who researches marine bioinvasions and the implications of escaped farmed salmon in the wild, says the long-term impact of using the hormone has to be assessed by a wider scientific community. Prof. Volpe is worried about hormone traces affecting other marine species and transferring to the offspring of the brood stock, which human beings consume. 'There's an analogous situation here to the bovine growth hormone, another protein hormone. It's fine up until it's not,' he said."
Natalie Southworth. "Farmed salmon need a little help to get in the mood," The Globe and Mail (May 29, 2004).
"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two."
Larry McMurtry (b. 1936). U.S. screenwriter, novelist, essayist. "Chapter 3," [Godwin, in] Some Can Whistle (1989).
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