A simile (/ˈsɪməli/) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily...

SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments) was a joint research project run by the World Wide Web Consortium...

Look up simile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A simile is a figure of speech making an explicit comparison. Simile or Similes may also refer to: A...

Homeric simile, also called an epic simile, is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines in length. The word "Homeric", is based...

A facsimile (from Latin fac simile, "to make alike") is a copy or reproduction of an old book, manuscript, map, art print, or other item of historical...

Like is one of the words in the English language that can introduce a simile (a stylistic device comparing two dissimilar ideas). It can be used as a...

trillium. Trillium simile is a spring-flowering perennial plant. Trillium simile was described by Henry A. Gleason in 1906. Trillium simile is endemic to the...

Win32/Simile (also known as Etap and MetaPHOR) is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly language for Microsoft Windows. The virus was released...

the allegory, writing that "Heidegger ... is off base in using the cave simile to interpret and 'criticize' Plato's theory of ideas". Various scholars...

Penicillium simile is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium. UniProt Davolos, D; Pietrangeli, B; Persiani, A. M.; Maggi, O (2012). "Penicillium simile sp...

with some perceived quality of an animal. Epithets may be formulated as similes, explicitly comparing people with the named animal, as in "he is as sly...

Eosentomon simile is a species of proturan in the family Eosentomidae. It is found in Africa. "Eosentomon simile Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information...

Cloeon simile is a species of small minnow mayfly in the family Baetidae. It is found in Europe. "Cloeon simile". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23. "Mayfly Central"...

entity to another. The semblative case is sometimes referred to as the similative case. Wagiman, an indigenous Australian language, has a semblative case...

The Simele massacre (Syriac: ܦܪܲܡܬܵܐ ܕܣܸܡܹܠܹܐ, romanized: Premta d'Simele, Arabic: مذبحة سميل, romanized: maḏbaḥat Simīl), also known as the Assyrian affair...

Trimetopon simile, Dunn's tropical ground snake, is a species of snake in the family, Colubridae. It is found in Costa Rica. Porras, L.W.; Chaves, G.;...

Pseudocuma simile is a marine species of cumacean (hooded or comma shrimp) in the family Pseudocumatidae. Lives in the seas around Europe. Grows up to...

Dianthidium simile is a species of leafcutter, mason, and resin bees in the family Megachilidae. It is found in North America. "Dianthidium simile Species...

Nesozineus simile is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2006. Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog...

The analogy of the Sun (or simile of the Sun or metaphor of the Sun) is found in the sixth book of The Republic (507b–509c), written by the Greek philosopher...

A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company...

antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. According to Grammarly, "Figurative language examples include similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole...

Lucifuga simile is a species of cavefish in the family Bythitidae. It is endemic to Cuba. It is a demersal species found in freshwater and brackish water...

Homeric, built 1986 (renamed MS Westerdam in 1988). Homeric simile, a long and descriptive simile common in Homer. Homeric Hymns, a set of hymns once attributed...

Ophtalmoplon simile is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins, Galileo and de-Oliveira in 2009. Bezark, Larry G. A...

Stenotrema simile, also known as the Bear Creek slitmouth, is a rare, range-restricted species of pulmonate land snail in the family Polygridae. It is...

Simile is the Black township on the northern side of the forestry town Sabie. It falls under the Thaba Chweu Local Municipality of Mpumalanga province...

it provides guidelines for the use of literary devices such as metaphor, simile and imagery, as well as rules for the arrangement of words and phrases to...

Panicum simile, known by the common name two colour panic, is a species of grass found in eastern Australia. It was described by Karel Domin in 1915. Les...

compiling the Dictionary of Similes, published in 1916, which was followed by a new edition in 1924 and an annual list of the best similes of the year. Frank Jenners...