metaphor
noun
1 metaphor
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
Roget 147:
substitution,
commutation;
supplanting
etc.
v.;
metaphor,
metonymy
etc.
(figure of speech)
521.
[Thing substituted]
substitute,
ersatz,
makeshift,
temporary expedient,
replacement,
succedaneum;
shift,
pis aller [Fr.],
stopgap,
jury rigging,
jury mast,
locum tenens,
warming pan,
dummy,
scapegoat;
double;
changeling;
quid pro quo,
alternative.
representative
etc.
(deputy)
759;
palimpsest.
price,
purchase money,
consideration,
equivalent.
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Roget 514a:
analogy,
association,
association of ideas.
metaphor
etc.
521.
analogical thinking;
free association;
train of thought.
Roget 521:
figure of speech;
facon de parler [Fr.],
way of speaking,
colloquialism.
phrase
etc.
566;
figure,
trope,
metaphor,
enallage†,
catachresis†;
metonymy [Gramm.],
synecdoche [Sem.];
autonomasia†,
irony,
figurativeness
etc.
adj.;
image,
imagery;
metalepsis†,
type,
anagoge†,
simile,
personification,
prosopopoeia†,
allegory,
apologue†,
parable,
fable;
allusion,
adumbration;
application.
exaggeration,
hyperbole
etc.
549.
association,
association of ideas
(analogy)
514.1
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Dutch: beeldspraak, vergelijking, metafoor
Polish: przenoĊnia, metafora
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