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| a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | |||
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| in a figurative sense | |||
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| resembling or expressed by parables | |||
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| a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |