metaphor <a metaphor; metaphors> N
accompanying metaphor LING
- accompanying metaphor
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appropriate metaphor LING
- appropriate metaphor
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artificial metaphor LING
- artificial metaphor
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attributive metaphor LING
- attributive metaphor
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blameworthy metaphor LING
- blameworthy metaphor
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conceptual metaphor LING
- conceptual metaphor
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constitutive metaphor LING
- constitutive metaphor
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detestable metaphor LING
- detestable metaphor
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dispensable metaphor LING
- dispensable metaphor
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extravagant metaphor LING
- extravagant metaphor
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An appropriate metaphor would be an extremely long shopping list.
en.wikipedia.org Based on a powerful metaphor of musical space, this theory can be applied to pitch, rhythm and metre, or even timbre.
en.wikipedia.org The house is falling apart, obviously a metaphor for their crumbling marriage.
en.wikipedia.org The meaning of armed and dangerous, for example, derives from the sum of its parts, while armed to the teeth involves metaphor.
en.wikipedia.org He proceeds to use a map as a metaphor for religion, noting that both help the individual to navigate their own way through the world.
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