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type | s |
lex_filenum | 00 |
def | using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part |
def | or the special for the general or the general for the special |
def | or the material for the thing made of it |
examples | to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech |
Outgoing links | |
Similar to | figurative, nonliteral |
Derivationally related form | synecdochical → synecdoche |
Derivationally related form | synecdochic → synecdoche |
Incoming links | |
Similar to | figurative, nonliteral |
Derivationally related form | synecdoche → synecdochic |
Derivationally related form | synecdoche → synecdochical |
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