Question
__________ is to surgery as writer is to __________
Which one of the following options maintains a similar logical relation in the above sentence?
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- C
- From
- Official GATE 2021 answer key
Solution
Identify the relationship between a professional practitioner and their defining professional product or primary activity.
The analogy relates an agent/professional to their characteristic field of work or output: a surgeon/doctor performs surgery, just as a writer produces a book.
Inserting 'Doctor' and 'book' yields: 'Doctor is to surgery as writer is to book', establishing a parallel professional-to-work relationship.
C
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Source
- Paper
- GATE 2021 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS, Set-1)
- Question
- 5 of 65, printed as GA Q.5
- Section
- General Aptitude
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