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nouna figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')type of:
Definition that contains simile
- fax send something via a facsimile machine
- microwave a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data
- facsimile send something via a facsimile machine
- telefax send something via a facsimile machine
- euphuism an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- imaginative comparison the kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories