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A zebra and a giraffe are both mammals, and in a broader abstraction, animals. However different they might be in many details, there are essential qualities that they have in common with each other and other mammals/animals (similar organs, body hair, reproductive systems, etc.).
An electrified mosquito racket and a tennis racket are both equipped with frames, handles and a net of strings.
A tire and a donut. They are both round and with a hole in the middle.
A ring and a key ring: they are round, thin, with a hole in the middle and can be made of the same material
Neurons and dendrites have the same growth pattern of trees and branches
A big shopping mall and Amazon are both places (virtual or physical) that you visit when you want to take a look at products or when you want to buy them, in both places you can choose from a huge variety of products, both have a warehouse and in both cases, the majority of the products sold are the same everywhere in the world.
Morse code and a letter are both forms of communication.
A mountain and a stair: in both cases you can climb or go down
Walking and taking a bus are both forms of movement. In both cases the subject changes his position in space from a point A to a point B.
A person talking to a friend and a teacher talking to her students. Situations are different but the act of talking is common.
A physicist solving complex equations on the chalkboard and an interpreter sketching symbols while Trump is holding a speech. Both of them are forms of writing.
The act of writing in Arabic and in Hebrew: the writer moves his hand from left to right and uses a non-Latin alphabet.
A musical scale and a staircase. In both cases the processes of going up and down imply a specific and ordered disposition - of notes in the first case, of steps in the second.
Write down two objects or situations that are referring to the same pattern if analysed from an abstract point of view, as introduced in Section "Abstraction is the key". What features do they have in common?