metaphorical sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmetaphoricalandsense
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metaphorical
adjective
uk/ˌmet.əˈfɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌmet̬.əˈfɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
Metaphorical language ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofmetaphoricalandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmetaphorical sense
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In the first place, it is unlikely that sensory information can be moved to a focus of attention except in ametaphoricalsense.
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They must mean it in somemetaphoricalsense.
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I don't mean this in ametaphoricalsense, that they are 'like' brothers.
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The lexical entry can also specify that bandwagon in itsmetaphoricalsenseoccurs as the object of jump on.
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Push, here, has ametaphoricalsense.
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The artist strove both to act like an engineer, at least in themetaphoricalsense, and to produce an aesthetic product that was a technological subject in itself.
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Random itineration with no determined goal could never be a pilgrimage; the very notion of an aimless pilgrimage is unintelligible (except perhaps in ametaphoricalsense).
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However, he will equally understand that, at least in themetaphoricalsense, some of the things that he says are incredible.
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However, we must try to ensure that this, too, is not another "empty hole", to use that phrase in ametaphoricalsense.
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I always thought the essence of ramming, used in thismetaphoricalsense, was that it should be a proceeding both violent and rapid.
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We should ensure that such households can, in both a physical and ametaphoricalsense, be brought in from the cold.
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I was using the phrase in a political andmetaphoricalsense.
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I suggest that the more youngsters that we can enlist, in ametaphoricalsense, on the side of law enforcement both formally and informally, the greater will be society's gain.
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It thus deals with the shapes of the states in ametaphoricalsenseas well as a literal sense.
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Extropy is not a rigorously defined technical term in philosophy or science; in ametaphoricalsense, it simply expresses the opposite of entropy.
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He explains the dilemma by interpreting the evening and morning in ametaphoricalsense.
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