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    Metonymy
    • (n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/metonymy/
    
    
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    metonymy
    (from Greek metnymia, `change of name,` or `misnomer`), figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely ... [2 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/81
    
    
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    Metonymy
    Metonymy (i {respell|mi|TONN|ə-mee}) is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. Metonyms can be either real or fictional concepts representing other concepts real o...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
    
    
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    metonymy
    a figure of speech in which the poet substitutes a word normally associated with something for the term usually naming that thing (for example, 'big-sky country' for western Canada). The association can be cause-and-effect, attribute-of, instrument-for, etc.
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic
    
    
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    metonymy
    metonymy (miton'umē) , figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing or something closely related to it is substituted for the thing itself. Thus, “sweat” can mean “hard labor,” and “Capitol Hill” represents the U.S. Congress.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0832930.html
    
    
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    Metonymy
    This artistic device occurs when an object, image or phrase, is used to refer to another object and both are in close correlation with one another. For example a metonymy for a pirate might be an eyepatch, or, for Sherlock Holmes, a Deer-Stalker cap and magnifying glass
    Found op http://www.allmovie.com/glossary/term/metonymy
    
    
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    Metonymy
    Metonymy is a figure in rhetoric by which the name of an idea or thing is substituted for that of another, to which it has a certain relation. Thus the effect is frequently substituted for the cause, as when grey hairs stands for old age; a part for the whole, as when keel is put for the whole ship;...
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AM.HTM
    
    
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    metonymy
    Figure of speech that works by association, naming something closely connected with what is meant; for example, calling the theatrical profession `the stage`, horse racing `the turf`, or journalists `the press`. It is related to synecdoche
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005963.html
    
    
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    metonymy
    1) Figure 2) Figure of speech 3) Image 4) Kin of synecdoche 5) Trope
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/metonymy/1
    
    

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