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METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.



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a: wind-turbine ~
b: cylindrical-shower-full-of-shower-heads-everywhere

Writer: Elizabeth Polsdofer, Iowa NSF EPSCoR --Date: March 23, 2025

a: loneliness ~
b: hunger

Writer: Larry Yeagley --Date: March 23, 2025

a: how-people-see-god ~
b: how-oysters-see-the-sun-through-water

Writer: Herman Melville --Date: March 23, 2025


a: volcano ~
b: a-hissing-cobra

Writer: Denisha --Date: March 22, 2025

a: glycolysis ~
b: investing-money-to-make-more-money

Writer: Robin Francis Tillman --Date: March 22, 2025

a: drug-abuse ~
b: a-balloon

Writer: Theodore Cicero of Washington University in St. Louis --Date: March 22, 2025


a: drug-abuse ~
b: thermometer

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 22, 2025

a: drug-abuse ~
b: whirlpool

Writer: Sean Sinjin --Date: March 22, 2025

a: drug-abuse ~
b: alcohol-abuse

Writer: keebo --Date: March 22, 2025


a: respect ~
b: chocolate-to-a-man-s-soul

Writer: Ron Deal --Date: March 22, 2025

a: poorly-soluble-drugs ~
b: peanut-butter

Writer: Mindi --Date: March 22, 2025

a: nostalgia ~
b: a-rear-view-mirror

Writer: Krystine Batcho --Date: March 22, 2025


a: intellectually-catholicism ~
b: an-archeological-excavation-in-rome

Writer: LucretiaGermanica --Date: March 22, 2025

a: poverty ~
b: infectious-disease

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 21, 2025

a: poverty ~
b: a-disease-of-the-mind

Writer: Steve Siebold --Date: March 21, 2025


a: cell-cycle ~
b: rodeo

Writer: kmanring --Date: March 21, 2025

a: solar-system ~
b: a-large-natural-laboratory

Writer: B. Bertotti, ‎Paolo Farinella, ‎David Vokrouhlický --Date: March 21, 2025

a: solar-system ~
b: a-grain-of-sand

Writer: Guy Stanton Ford --Date: March 21, 2025


a: tendon ~
b: a-large-cable

Writer: Kyrie O'Connor --Date: March 20, 2025

a: carbon-cycle ~
b: giant-game-of-tetris

Writer: Joss Fong --Date: March 20, 2025

a: single-replacement ~
b: someone-leaves-their-boy-girlfriend

Writer: Wilson Moin --Date: March 20, 2025


a: fossil ~
b: mold

Writer: Bellaire, Tracy --Date: March 19, 2025

a: motivation ~
b: oxygen

Writer: Dan Waldschmidt --Date: March 19, 2025

a: mulholland-drive ~
b: the-road-itself

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 18, 2025


a: internet ~
b: vagina

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 18, 2025

a: internet ~
b: utility

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 18, 2025

a: motivation ~
b: oxygen

Writer: Dan Waldschmidt --Date: March 18, 2025


a: seattle ~
b: one-big-renaissance-festival

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 18, 2025

a: proteasome ~
b: a-salami-slicer

Writer: Ron R. Kopito --Date: March 17, 2025

a: seattle ~
b: one-big-renaissance-festival

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 17, 2025


a: magnetic-field ~
b: a-rubber-band

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 17, 2025

a: acceptance ~
b: bitter-gourd

Writer: Kate --Date: March 17, 2025

a: volcano ~
b: a-hissing-cobra

Writer: Denisha --Date: March 17, 2025


a: epigenetics ~
b: grandma-notes-in-the-family-cookbook

Writer: Dr. Theresa Nesbitt --Date: March 16, 2025

a: electromagnetic-spectrum ~
b: a-piano-that-spans-all-types-of-radiation

Writer: mmaccarone --Date: March 16, 2025

a: lightning ~
b: holy-spirit

Writer: tscottmorton --Date: March 16, 2025


a: glycolysis ~
b: delicious-cookie-on-a-platter

Writer: rhampton --Date: March 16, 2025

a: labia ~
b: budding-flower

Writer: Denise Brienne --Date: March 15, 2025

a: diabetes ~
b: a-three-way-balancing-act

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 14, 2025


a: groundwater ~
b: a-savings-account

Writer: --Date: March 14, 2025

a: wernicke-s-area ~
b: a-network-router

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 14, 2025

a: drunk-driving ~
b: mosquitoes-or-deer

Writer: PaxRyan --Date: March 14, 2025


a: groundwater ~
b: information-on-the-internet

Writer: --Date: March 12, 2025

a: macromolecule ~
b: train

Writer: Varadaraja Raman --Date: March 12, 2025

a: new-orleans ~
b: the-siren-song

Writer: Debra Shriver --Date: March 12, 2025


a: a-nuclear-power-plant ~
b: a-little-kitten

Writer: Michael Forster Roth --Date: March 11, 2025

a: carbohydrate ~
b: paper

Writer: Rosen Wellness --Date: March 11, 2025

a: parasympathetic-nervous-system ~
b: rest-and-digest-mechanism

Writer: Jose Miguel Medeiros --Date: March 11, 2025


a: teaching-with-a-metaphor ~
b: eating-a-fudgy-oatmeal-cookie

Writer: LucretiaGermanica --Date: March 11, 2025

a: student-debt ~
b: a-snake-strangling

Writer: Gil Alcaraz --Date: March 11, 2025

a: student-debt ~
b: quicksand

Writer: Charles Schumer, D-NY --Date: March 11, 2025


a: student-debt ~
b: a-schoolyard-bully

Writer: Joe Mihalic --Date: March 11, 2025

a: the-milky-way ~
b: a-big-flat-disk

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 10, 2025

a: loneliness ~
b: hunger

Writer: Larry Yeagley --Date: March 10, 2025


a: loneliness ~
b: disease

Writer: Rob Stein --Date: March 10, 2025

a: loneliness ~
b: sitting-on-a-hill

Writer: Nick Halpin PhD --Date: March 10, 2025

a: loneliness ~
b: hunger

Writer: James C. --Date: March 10, 2025


a: loneliness ~
b: a-prison-with-no-walls

Writer: Charles Dickens --Date: March 10, 2025

a: loneliness ~
b: sitting-in-an-empty-room

Writer: Kent Nerburn --Date: March 10, 2025

a: integrity ~
b: iceberg

Writer: Not Stated --Date: March 9, 2025


a: capacitor ~
b: a-parking-lot

Writer: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. --Date: March 9, 2025

a: activation-energy ~
b: when-you-have-to-pee

Writer: cippo --Date: March 9, 2025

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