simile

  • 1SIMILE — is a research project focused on developing tools to increase the interoperability of disparate digital collections. As digital library collections proliferate and their contents expand, they come under increasing pressure to provide for… …

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  • 2simile — adv. (muz.; indică modul de execuţie) Cu aceeaşi intensitate, cu aceeaşi nuanţă ca mai înainte. [pr.: sí ] – cuv. it. Trimis de IoanSoleriu, 24.07.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  simile (muz.) adv. Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa …

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  • 3simile — late 14c., from L. simile a like thing, neuter of similis like (see SIMILAR (Cf. similar)). A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject. [Johnson] …

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  • 4Simile — Sim i*le, n.; pl. {Similes}. [L., from similis. See {Similar}.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. [1913 Webster] A good… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 5simile — / simile/ [dal lat. simĭlis, der. della radice sem uno ]. ■ agg. 1. [dello stesso tipo: due persone s. tra loro ] ▶◀ affine, analogo, conforme, similare, somigliante. ◀▶ differente, difforme, dissimile, diverso. 2. [di tale specie, in senso… …

    Enciclopedia Italiana

  • 6simile — is a figure of speech consisting of a direct comparison using a construction with as…as…, or with the first as omitted: • Soft as rain slipping through rushes, the cattle came Edmund Blunden. Some similes belong to a stock type, e.g. (as) drunk… …

    Modern English usage

  • 7Simĭle — (lat.), etwas Ähnliches; Gleichnis …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 8simile — index example Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 9simile —    sìmile    (s.m.) È il locus a simili, che costituisce ad esempio il modello di paragone per la metafora (mentre quello per l ironia è il locus a contrario). adiunctum, locus a simili …

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  • 10símile — s. m. 1. Comparação que se faz entre duas coisas que se assemelham. 2. Semelhança, analogia. 3. Exemplo que se propõe. 4. Parábola. • adj. 2 g. 5. Semelhante …

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