"analogue" meaning in English

See analogue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} analogue (not comparable)
  1. (mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog Tags: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: analog Derived forms: analogue circuit, analogue computer, heteroanalogue
    Sense id: en-analogue-en-adj-DwKiQSxB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41

Noun

Forms: analogues [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} analogue (plural analogues)
  1. (mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog Tags: Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: analog
    Sense id: en-analogue-en-noun-DwKiQSxB

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for analogue meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "analogue (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "analog"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "analogue circuit"
        },
        {
          "word": "analogue computer"
        },
        {
          "word": "heteroanalogue"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56",
          "text": "\"But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers?\n\"I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "id": "en-analogue-en-adj-DwKiQSxB",
      "links": [
        [
          "analog",
          "analog#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "analogue"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "analogues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "analogue (plural analogues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "analog"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "id": "en-analogue-en-noun-DwKiQSxB",
      "links": [
        [
          "analog",
          "analog#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "analogue"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "analogue circuit"
    },
    {
      "word": "analogue computer"
    },
    {
      "word": "heteroanalogue"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "analogue (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "analog"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56",
          "text": "\"But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers?\n\"I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "analog",
          "analog#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "analogue"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "analogues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "analogue (plural analogues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "analog"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "analog",
          "analog#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mostly Commonwealth) Alternative form of analog"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "analogue"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.