METAPHOR
\mˈɛtəfˌɔː], \mˈɛtəfˌɔː], \m_ˈɛ_t_ə_f_ˌɔː]\
Definitions of METAPHOR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
By Oddity Software
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The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
By Noah Webster.
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The application of a concept to that which it is not literally the same but which suggests a resemblance and comparison. Medical metaphors were widespread in ancient literature; the description of a sick body was often used by ancient writers to define a critical condition of the State, in which one corrupt part can ruin the entire system. (From Med Secoli Arte Sci, 1990;2 (3):abstract 331)
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A figure of speech by which one thing is spoken of as something else to which it has some likeness; as, God's word is a lamp to our feet.
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Metaphoric, metaphorical.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Greek] A comparison or similitude in a condensed form, or conveyed in a single word; a rhetorical figure o speech in which mental or moral qualities are expressed by natural or physical attributes. It differs from simile, in that the signs of comparison are omitted, and the analogy is univocal without the addition of expletives or adjectives.
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