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 in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the same as an extended arm). Synonyms are also a source of euphemisms. Metonymy can sometimes be a form of synonymy: the White House is used as a synonym...

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

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

Parsimony". pp. 110–118. Koskela, Anu (2015-01-23). "On the distinction between metonymy and vertical polysemy in encyclopaedic semantics" (PDF). www.sussex.ac...

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...

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"...

The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. The book explains classical...

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

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

staff and offices of the executive branch of the Brazilian Government, by metonymy Brazilian Highlands (Planalto Brasileiro), a region covering most of the...

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...

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...

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...

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

and 'klês' (-κλῆς; 'fame'), meaning "renowned, glorious". In English, by metonymy, 'Euclid' can mean his most well-known work, Euclid's Elements, or a copy...

of religious or cultural suffocation. It is sometimes interpreted as a metonymy of the First they came ... narrative [citation needed], to mean that after...