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单词 metonymic
释义
metonymic
adjective
languagespecialized
uk
/ˌmetˈɒn.ə.mɪk/us
/ˌməˈtɑː.nə.mɪk/
relatingto or usingmetonymy(= referring to something using a word thatdescribesone ofitsqualitiesorfeatures):
转喻的
Namesbasedonoccupationareknownas metonymicnames.基于职业的名称被称为转喻名称。
Herviolinstandsfor her in a metonymicsense.她的小提琴就是她的代名词。
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metonymy
More examples
  • There might be lesscreativityin metonymiclanguageuse than theauthorsassume.
  • “From thecradleto thegrave” is a metonymicexpressionthatrepresentstwoabstractterms,birthanddeath, with two (concrete)symbols.
  • Herpoetryproducesa metonymicwebofassociation.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Figurative use of language
  • a metaphor forsomethingidiom
  • allegorically
  • allusion
  • anthropomorphic
  • anthropomorphize
  • figurative
  • figure of speech
  • idiom
  • ironic
  • metaphor
  • metonymy
  • mix
  • mixyourmetaphorsidiom
  • mixed metaphor
  • non-metaphorical
  • pathetic fallacy
  • so to speakidiom
  • speak
  • symbol
  • trope
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(Definition ofmetonymicfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmetonymic

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Finally, the relationship between power/force and its material support was complicated by themetonymicquality of the body.
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Its effects make themselves felt on other levels as well through a sort of direct metaphoric ormetonymictransfer from one to the other.
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The information that there is somemetonymicevent and that the predicate involved is a subtype of act-on-pred is not default, and cannot be overridden.
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There is not much common ground between the temporal sense and the idea of moderating or compromising, although themetonymicdevelopment is plausible.
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The two last-named pairs have typical brother names ofmetonymicconstruction.
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The negotiation of meaning may involve innovation, specifically pragmatic, semantic and ultimately grammatical enrichment, largely motivated bymetonymicand metaphorical inferencing.
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One can often assign the metaphorical principle to a metaphor class defined by ametonymicprinciple.
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In addition tometonymicuse of individual buildings, larger, more holistic representations of cities frequently serve as urban icons.
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Older children's 'metonymic' interpretations reflect a distortion of the story context in such a way that the metaphor makes sense.
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It is an open question whether thismetonymicrole of the history of science can be ontological as well as epistemological.
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In some ways we find the problem of being primarily the manifestation of a perspective also in themetonymicrelationship between the model and the modelled.
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Thesemetonymicmeasures of contrasting types of doom - the human and the natural - need to be viewed, though, through the paradoxical frame of the penultimate sentence in the book.
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There is, she says, a "metonymicexcess in every mime, indeed, in every metaphorical substitution, that is understood to disrupt the seamless repetition of the phallogocentric norm" (48).
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He posits that such forms arise throughmetonymicsemantic change and that the relevant metonymy takes as its conceptual base a contiguity between a sound chain and a speech situation.
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As outlined above, there would have to be a means of providing an ordering on possible instantiations of the underspecifiedmetonymicpredicate, either by weights or defaults.
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