Likening

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verb(followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).

"The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber."

2.nounThe act by which things are likened; a comparison.

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