Antonym: literal. Similar words: configuration, transfiguration, inauguration, figure, figure in, figure out, configure, disfigure. Meaning: ['fɪgjərətɪv /-gjʊr-] adj. 1. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech 2. consisting of or forming human or animal figures.
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31. When the meaning in extension is father from the original meaning, it is more figurative.
32. There exists a bias in the translation circle:in technical translation, logical thinking is a must while figurative thinking is of no importance.
33. Contrary to figurative language which is commonly used in advertising, plain language refers to the unadorned, clear and ordinary one, which also finds its wide application in the same field.
34. Aware of the miseries of the jobless workers caused by the economic crisis of the world, Chaplin decided to make use of the figurative language of movies as an outburst of his feelings.
35. The logic analysis of anti-reality hypothesis compound sentence is to reveal its hidden logic thinking modalities which are different reasoning, counterevidence and figurative reasoning.
36. The key to success, it points out, lies in a balanced appreciation of the meaning engendered by both the surface and deep structure of the figurative language.
37. All the standard accounts highlight questions, which are of great interest, not only to the study of idioms(sentencedict.com), but also to the study of figurative language in general.
38. In modern times prints and figurative works carved in relatively soft stone such as soapstone, serpentinite, or argillite have also become popular.
39. If the author uses flashback, symbols, or figurative language, make note of it.
40. Figurative language is when we use figures or pictures to express ourselves clearly or to teach something.
41. In planning network, it is necessary to implement strict identity approval, visit-controlling, data-encrypting, figurative signature, etc, popularize and use the digital certificates progressively.
42. Alberto Giacometti is a painting master of Figurative Expressionism in contemporary France. His words "Painting is just a way of seeing" is representative.
43. A trademark used for an adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, employed to protect minor wounds. This trademark sometimes occurs in print in figurative uses.
44. He has little turn for figurative language — an odd defect for a poet, but by its restraint curiously suited to his lurid stories, its almost clinical detachment enhancing their reality.
45. Guided by this myth, metaphor is considered decorative and ornamental in nature, thus a set of extraordinary or figurative linguistic expressions out of normal language systems.
46. No one was doing realistic figurative art other than cowboys and Indians.
47. Similar and similarity surplus are a pair of chief categories of figurative thinking.
48. How to provide the effective strategy of teaching meanings will contribute to the guessing and retention of the figurative senses of polysemous words.
49. At the same time, all this diverse material is unified and made mysteriously figurative.
50. What is the function of the figurative use of language?
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51. The writer or speaker clearly indicates he is using figurative language.
52. Jews and Christians both developed audaciously innovative and figurative methods of reading the Bible, and every statement of the Quran is called an ayah ("parable").
53. "George likes figurative artists in the tradition of Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and the Italian Renaissance," Rinzler said.
54. The use of figurative language presents the combination of aesthetics and information.
55. The power of the metaphor, simile, parallel... figurative language is not only a good way to put things into perspective, but metaphors are easier to remember than a complex set of interactions.
56. Figurative art has evolved through Impressionism and Fauvism to arrive to at what we call Abstract art.
57. Notice in the list above how we can determine that these are uses of figurative language.
58. When the Bible uses figurative language, there is only ONE (1) point of comparison, and we should restrict our interpretation to that ONE point of comparison.
59. People don't lose sunglasses, Kevin's friend tells him. They place them in a figurative grab bag of lost shades that stretches around the globe.
60. And poetry exercises this muscle by encouraging figurative language providing a sounding ground for your ideas, feelings, reminiscences by putting them into a concrete perspective.
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