Similar words: photograph, photographer, photography, set apart, metal, tap, tape, phone. Meaning: ['metəfɔr /'metəfə,'metəfɔː] n. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
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121. However, the further rightwards along the cline a metaphor is located, the greater is the potential for multiple interpretations.
122. This property is responsible for the hologram becoming a popular metaphor for human memory.
123. This final and most significant level of metaphor is best seen in relation to the pond.
124. Tonight we are given the foot washing as complementary symbol or metaphor.
125. In the second the observations of a character are noted: the metaphor is muted.
126. Through metaphor and symbolism, Thoreau discusses the importance of nature.
127. Metaphor and irony juxtapose meanings: harmonious, contrasting, or conflicting.
128. This thesis intends to analyze the collapse of the family from the inner point of view and finds in incest the best metaphor for the fall of the South.
129. The biological metaphor has a significance of revelation for the development of evolutional economics.
130. The traditional rhetoricians viewed metaphor as decorative in nature and independent of human cognition.
131. The use of metaphor and imagery may help the writer give voice to emotional undertones that would otherwise be hard to put into words.
132. This paper explores into the theoretical basis of relevance by discussing the usage of four rhetorical devices in collocation variation, namely metaphor, hypallage, zeugma and pun.
133. Archimedean point is metaphor derived from Archimedes' alleged saying that if he had a fulcrum and a lever, he could move the earth.
134. Traditional rhetoric holds that metaphor is lexically a kind of contrast and substitution of meanings, and it is a deviation of the normal rules of language use.
135. The same metaphor of the money changer is found in the Stoics and in early Christian literature but with different meanings.
136. Tropes are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
137. Metaphor, as a kind of language phenomenon and operation, shares with normal language phenomena the same language system. Sentencedict.com
138. InfoQ: PBE is an example of Model-driven development (MDD) mostly as a result of using the engineering metaphor as a philosophical base.
139. This thesis has mainly explained semantic extension mechanism of basic color terms on the basis of metonymy and metaphor from synchronic approach.
140. The deeper structure is a linguistic basis in its essence, made up of four basic discourse patterns:metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
141. "The vampire is a metaphor for the predatory yet alluring boy, " explains the psychotherapist and sometime spin doctor Derek Draper. "The young girl wants to be chased and she wants to be caught.
142. Results indicate that aptness of metaphor and expression style both affect Aad and persuasiveness significantly.
143. Metaphor is the life principle of poetry and poetry is closely related to metaphor.
144. Relevance Theory, which focuses on the cognitive process, did not care to give a specific definition to metaphor, seeing it as a normal language use consistent to the principle of relevance.
145. Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
146. The design debt metaphor was first used by Ward Cunningham in his OOPSLA 1992 experience report 1, where he described the common practice of using a little temporary debt to speed up development.
147. This paper, by means of variation analysis method and meaning-directed analysis method, analyses the corpus, finding out that meanings of metaphor are rich and complex and have some regularities.
148. Using a good graphic metaphor for your interface makes the user feel more comfortable navigating your site.
149. This is a metaphor that Derrida frequently uses, as a kind of writing on the ear.
150. System Metaphor: Each project has an organizing metaphor, which provides an easy to remember naming convention.