Metonymy (/mɪˈtɒnɪmi, mɛ-/) is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept...

Metaphor (drawing a similarity between two things) and metonymy (drawing a contiguity between two things) are two fundamental opposite poles along which...

with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English...

Synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəki/ sih-NEK-də-kee) is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole...

An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than...

- A kind of metonymy in which an epithet or phrase takes the place of a proper name. Synecdoche – A literary device, related to metonymy and metaphor...

against his feminist critics.[citation needed] Lacan aligns desire with metonymy and the slide of signifiers above the bar, 'indicating that it is the connection...

referring to the whole using only one of its attributes – i.e. using a metonymy. For example, in a single computer system, this would be the computer's...

original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2017. "Definition of Metonymy". Chegg. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved November...

Patrick; Lambert, James (2011). "Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy". Studies in Philology. 108 (1): 108–132. doi:10.1353/sip.2011.0001. ISSN 1543-0383...

Sixty Metonymies is the debut studio album of New York City-based avant-garde band Tartar Lamb. The album is essentially one 40-minute composition for...

the government of the country of which it is the capital, as a form of metonymy. For example, the "relations between London and Washington" refers to the...

Habsburg monarchy (of the Austrian branch) is often called "Austria" by metonymy. Around 1700, the Latin term monarchia austriaca came into use as a term...

negation, which White assimilates to one of the four main tropes: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony. Structuralists as Roman Jakobson or Emile Benveniste...

hold, rather than the amount of space the container itself displaces. By metonymy, the term "volume" sometimes is used to refer to the corresponding region...

A grand duchy is a country or territory whose official head of state or ruler is a monarch bearing the title of grand duke or grand duchess. Prior to the...

pro parte is Latin for "the whole for a part"; it refers to a kind of metonymy. The plural is tota pro partibus, "wholes for parts". In context of language...

includes the study of indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is frequently...

can be referred to as 'pairs of hands', and a vehicle as one's 'wheels'. Metonymy is similar to synecdoche, but instead of a part representing the whole...

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Bilder (The Book of Images). Rilke extensively engaged with metaphors, metonymy and contradictions in his poetry and prose to convey disbelief and a crisis...

referred to as the House of Peers or the Lords Spiritual and Temporal by metonymy. Within the House of Commons, it is euphemistically known as "another place"...

merism, which is a reference to a whole by an enumeration of parts; and metonymy, where an object, place, or concept is called by something or some place...

C., and entities named after it, including: United States Congress, by metonymy The Hill (newspaper), a U.S. political newspaper and digital news channel...

Kingdom, could be used as a metonym for the country's government. Since metonymy – the process by which metonyms are formed – is a productive process, new...

metaphor and metonymy, argued that the unconscious has the structure of a language, linking displacement to the poetic function of metonymy, and condensation...

law, an eponym can refer to a generic trademark or brand name, a form of metonymy, such as aspirin, heroin and thermos in the United States. In geography...

Agadir (Phoenician: ‬𐤀𐤂𐤃𐤓, ʾgdr), meaning 'wall', 'compound', or (by metonymy) 'stronghold'. Borrowed by the Berber languages, this became the agadir...

server refers to a computer program or process (running program). Through metonymy, it refers to a device used for (or a device dedicated to) running one...

by linguist Roman Jakobson in his influential article on metaphor and metonymy. Comparing the linguistic evidence to Freud's account of the dream-work...