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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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