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    Metonymy (redirect from Metonymic)
    figure of speech, or one could interpret a phrase metaphorically or metonymically. For example, the phrase "lend me your ear" could be analyzed in a number...
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    it does, he is bowled out) and to score runs where possible. Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batter is known as the taking of a wicket, The...
    13 KB (1,756 words) - 14:20, 12 June 2024
  • take either singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies. Morphological derivation accounts for many collective...
    19 KB (2,485 words) - 19:01, 24 April 2024
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    Diminutive Double-barrelled Epithet Animal Common Plant Eponymic Matronymic Metonymic Mononymic Occupational Patronymic Surname Sobriquet Teknonymic Toponymic...
    48 KB (5,179 words) - 22:53, 6 June 2024
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    faith in the multiparty constitution. The election also saw the rise of metonymic supporters of the new candidates, the Obidient movement of Peter Obi,...
    253 KB (23,505 words) - 21:45, 7 June 2024
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    Pun (section Metonymic Puns)
    ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism...
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  • Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 144–146. Oxford...
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    Diminutive Double-barrelled Epithet Animal Common Plant Eponymic Matronymic Metonymic Mononymic Occupational Patronymic Surname Sobriquet Teknonymic Toponymic...
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    National Diet, are, however, not known as the "Chrysanthemum Throne". In a metonymic sense, the "Chrysanthemum Throne" also refers rhetorically to the head...
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    anarchists, communists, and socialists whose luxurious lifestyles, metonymically including consumption of champagne, are ostensibly in conflict with...
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  • and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal...
    6 KB (579 words) - 14:41, 3 May 2024
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    purely political reasons. In this context, the term "the hyphen" was a metonymical reference to this kind of ethnicity descriptor, and "dropping the hyphen"...
    18 KB (1,852 words) - 08:59, 26 May 2024
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    international law, consisting of the Pope and the Roman Curia. It is also metonymically referred to as "The Vatican". The Holy See's budget, which is distinct...
    133 KB (12,062 words) - 11:43, 11 June 2024
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    journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print...
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    Diminutive Double-barrelled Epithet Animal Common Plant Eponymic Matronymic Metonymic Mononymic Occupational Patronymic Surname Sobriquet Teknonymic Toponymic...
    222 KB (23,332 words) - 17:32, 13 June 2024
  • word for "sickle", and originated as an occupational surname referring metonymically to sickle makers or people who used sickles. In Italy, 151 families...
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    and the duchess. Flute's name, like that of the other mechanicals, is metonymical and derives from his craft: "Flute" references a church organ, an instrument...
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    Diminutive Double-barrelled Epithet Animal Common Plant Eponymic Matronymic Metonymic Mononymic Occupational Patronymic Surname Sobriquet Teknonymic Toponymic...
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