A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible...

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different ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. Analysts group metaphors with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis...

This is an alphabetical list of common English-language idioms based on baseball, excluding the extended metaphor referring to sex, and including illustrative...

Internet metaphors guide future action and perception of the Internet's capabilities on an individual and societal level. Internet metaphors are contestable...

a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or...

baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships. In the metaphor, first...

This is a list of English-language words of Hindi and Urdu origin, two distinguished registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu). Many of the Hindi...

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400...

similis ("similar, like"), while metaphor derives from the Greek word metapherein ("to transfer"). As in the case of metaphors, the thing that is being compared...

not literally have "insides," people talk about language largely in terms of metaphors. Most English core expressions used in talking about communication...

English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...

Max, who becomes his flatmate. Giovanni's main problem with English is understanding metaphors and long words, although he often answers wrongly on purpose...

This is the List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L. For the second portion of the list, see List of words having...

The use of war as metaphor is a longstanding literary and rhetorical trope. In political usage, war metaphors are used to manage a perceived societal...

1971. His study culminated in The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language published in 1975 and the three-volume...

ancestor-language or that humans are naturally predisposed to develop certain metaphors.[citation needed] The non-compositionality of meaning of idioms...

reasons. In the Anglo-American tradition of analytic philosophy (in particular, in the philosophy of language), metaphor has attracted interest because it does...

The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from H to O. See also the lists...

the central theme about language-as-communication.: 171  In the essay, Standard English was characterised by dying metaphors, pretentious diction, and...

English language idioms derived from baseball and baseball metaphors for sex. Examination of the ethnocultural relevance of these idioms in English speech...

The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists...

Linguistikfachzeitschrift Jezik von 1991 bis 1997 [Analysis of Metaphors in Croatian Linguistic Journal Language from 1991 to 1997]. Studien zur Slavistik; 41 (in...

English-based cant, perhaps a mixed language or creole, originating among the urban youth of Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced by many of the languages spoken...

upon the idea and compares the Tamarian language to Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's theory of metaphors from Metaphors We Live By and Women, Fire, and Dangerous...

pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries. Many examples of such...

originally referred specifically to the use of language to cast a curse on someone, and in American English it is still commonly associated with wishing...

Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the US state of Hawaiʻi. King Kamehameha III established the first Hawaiian-language constitution in...

the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in...