( Hosea 1: 2 NIV ) The apostle John used a similar analogy in Revelation chapter 17.

Jesus Christ used the " birth " analogy in tracing spiritual newness of life to a divine beginning.

The term is best known as a mechanical effect, and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes.

Some magazines have used the analogy that America is the Takeshi of the world and Japan is his sidekick Suneo.

Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.

In keeping with the analogy, they even used the term " Emperor " in reference to the shogun / regent, e. g. in the case of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who missionaries called " Emperor Taicosama " ( from Taiko and the honorific sama ).

The term is used to suggest analogy with the logical fallacies.

By analogy with the word " conlang ", the term conworld is used to describe these fictional worlds, inhabited by fictional constructed cultures.

Outside a European context, the concept of feudalism is normally used only by analogy ( called semi-feudal ), most often in discussions of feudal Japan under the shoguns, and sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia.

The analogy between the Skyrme field and the Higgs field of the electroweak sector has been used to postulate that all fermions are skyrmions.

The analogy is made to locksmithing, specifically picking locks, which — aside from its being a skill with a fairly high tropism to ' classic ' hacking — is a skill which can be used for good or evil.

By analogy, the name hammer has also been used for devices that are designed to deliver blows, e. g. in the caplock mechanism of firearms.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

In a push button analogy applied to computer systems, the term doorbell or doorbell interrupt is often used to describe a mechanism whereby a software system can signal or notify a computer hardware device that there is some work to be done.

" and used the analogy of the scaffolding called centering used to build an arch then removed afterwards: " Surely there was ' scaffolding '.

Simon declined Ehrlich and Schneider's offer to bet, and used the following analogy to explain why he did so:

By analogy, the term letter is sometimes used for e-mail messages with a formal letter-like format.

By mathematical analogy: A metasyntactic variable is a word that is a variable for other words, just as in algebra letters are used as variables for numbers.

Such terms are primarily understood as negative attitudes towards certain categories of people or other things, used in an analogy with the medical usage of the term.

In the Leipzig disputation with Martin Luther, 1519, Johann Eck used the Corpus, specifically the Angelic Hierarchy, as argument for the apostolic origin of papal supremacy, pressing the Platonist analogy, " as above, so below ".

An analogy that can be used to understand the advantages of an asymmetric system is to imagine two people, Alice and Bob, who are sending a secret message through the public mail.

The phrase " rocking and rolling " originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy.

By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.

A 2008 British Medical Journal article highlights that the combination of macrolides and statins ( used for lowering cholesterol ) is not advisable and can lead to debilitating myopathy.

Because the spacecraft environment is by definition limited, a very small number of sets can be heavily used, lowering production costs and allowing producers to focus on character development, setting detail, or sometimes simply to keep a production in the black so it can stay on the air.

The system is not used for any safety critical or weapon critical tasks, such as weapon release or lowering of the undercarriage, but is used for a wide range of other cockpit functions.

Vermouth is used as an ingredient in many different cocktails, as people found it ideal for lowering the alcohol content of cocktails with strong spirits as their base, for providing a pleasant herbal flavor and aroma, and for accentuating the flavors in the base liquor.

An inclined plane is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load.

Vacuum operation should be used if the atmospheric temperatures required are above a few hundred degrees Celsius, as this often has a dramatic effect on boiling points ; significantly lowering them.

In transform coding, knowledge of the application is used to choose information to discard, thereby lowering its bandwidth.

In most cases, " The Man of a Thousand Voices ," Mel Blanc, contributed the animals ' gag lines, often lowering his voice one to two full octaves, far below the range he used to voice the character of Barney Rubble.

For people at risk of heart disease, measures such as blood pressure control, cholesterol lowering, and other medico-therapeutic interventions are used.

At the same time, evacuating skin humidity: several layers of materials with different properties may be used to achieve this goal while lowering heat losses so they match the body ’ s internal heat production.

" Old enough to fight, old enough to vote ," was a common slogan used by proponents of lowering the voting age.

32-bit per channel images are used to represent values brighter than white ; these values can then be used to more accurately retain bright highlights when either lowering the exposure of the image or when it is seen through a dark filter or dull reflection.

Mayorga reacted defiantly while lowering his defense, which Trinidad used to continue the offensive during the closing seconds.

* Elevator or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods

Army helicopters were also used to insert search-and-rescue teams into inaccessible areas on the east, north, and west sides of the mountain, lowering rangers to the ground by a cable device known as a " jungle penetrator ".

For example, monetary policy and / or fiscal policy ( i. e., deficit spending ) could be used to stimulate the economy, raising gross domestic product and lowering the unemployment rate.

They can also be used to treat glaucoma because they decrease intraocular pressure by lowering aqueous humor secretion.

Feedback can be used to extend the bandwidth of an amplifier at the cost of lowering the amplifier gain.

Early stopping is effectively limiting the used weights in the network and thus imposes a regularization, effectively lowering the VC dimension.

In addition to the specific type of medication being used, the amount of medications used regularly was also found to be correlated with a lowering of sexual desire.

A notable example was the Sunbeam T-20, T-35 and T-50 models ( identical except for details such as control positioning ) made from the late 1940s through the 1960s, which used the mechanically multiplied thermal expansion of the resistance wire in the center element assembly to lower the bread ; the inserted slice of bread tripped a lever to switch on the power which immediately caused the heating element to begin expanding thus lowering the bread.