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Sentence count:23Posted:2017-09-20Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: metaphoricalmetaphoricallymetaphoranaphoricmetaphasemetaphysicsmetaphysicalaphorismMeaning: ['metə'fɔrɪkl ,-'fɑ- /-'fɒ-]  adj. expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another. 
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1. There is a danger that America's metaphoric 'war on drugs' may turn into a bloody reality.
2. Such vivid, metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world.
3. Intelligence here is her noticing how loaded and metaphoric and condensed something seen can be.
4. The metaphoric juxtaposition of incongruous thematic material is motivated by the exigencies of the main character's job as a simultaneous interpreter.
5. Thirdly, the metaphoric language means the counteraction of moralism.
6. Others have made extensive folkloric and metaphoric use of animals, with the cast of characters tuned to suit local reality and pedagogical need.
7. The ubiquitous mouse input device is not metaphoric of anything, but rather is learned idiomatically.
8. Based on the prototype theory and metaphoric cognitive mechanism, the paper probes the psychological cognitive process of semantic extension of prepositions.
9. Metaphoric language use is nothing but the normal way of concept formation,(sentence dictionary) which is based on similar experiences of situations.
10. Similarly, there is nothing intuitive or metaphoric about text messaging on a phone.
11. Through metaphoric language, we can understand one-thing in terms of another's properties, and so cross-fertilize our impressions (Alexander, 1969).
12. Instructors can facilitate metaphoric learning by scheduling process time after significant experiences.
13. It was a metaphoric ( al ) phrase; we didn't really mean that he has green fingers, only that he is good.
14. Recent discoveries suggest that the biblical Garden of Eden was less metaphoric that we presumed.
15. The importance of Kittay's formulation lies in her wide definition of the type of linguistic unit that can be labelled metaphoric.
16. He even hints that there may be a reciprocal relationship between the metaphoric and proper components of his schema.
17. Simile, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche have the same characteristic that is metaphoric use.
18. The film speaks of longing and desire and is a richly metaphoric movement portrait.
19. This is a world understood from a metonymic point of view as that which lacks organicity, and yet at the same time the whole point of the story is thematically metaphoric.
20. A gem, a stealth bomber, a collage of deconstruction meets minimalism ; these are some of the possible metaphoric descriptions of the project.
21. Theory of Grammatical Metaphor provides a new approach to the modern metaphoric study.
22. Linguistic metaphor is the result of and tools for human metaphoric cognition.
23. There are four cognitive models of categorization: propositional model, image-schematic model, metaphoric model and metonymic model respectively.
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