• retrain (sb) (as sth) to learn, or to teach sb, a new type of work, a new skill, etc.:[v] She retrained as a teacher. Ç [vn to inf] Staff have been retrained to use the new technology. [also vn] • ô re·train·ing noun [U] • ana·logy / Ñ J'n&lJdZi; NAmE Ñ / noun (pl. -ies) • 1[C] analogy (between A and B) | analogy (with sth) a comparison of one thing with another thing that has similar features; a feature that is similar:The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump. Ç There are no analogies with any previous legal cases. • 2[U] the process of comparing one thing with another thing that has similar features in order to explain it:learning by analogy