metonymic

How To Use metonymic In A Sentence

• The metonymic process depends on the substitution, in a sequence, of a series of metonymies for the novel's totalizing metaphor, with each metonymy representing a repetition of the novel's metaphor.
• This mode of speaking is metonymical, and the word carnal "flesh," is used instead of carnal, by The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
• The first mode is synecdochical, the second common, the third metonymical; I add that the third might properly be called catachrestic if we attend to the just distinction of these members. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
• Sure, he provides plenty of linguistic examples of the types of mappings metaphorical, metonymical, polysemic, etc., and even the types of inferences made, but no description of how any of this occurs. Archive 2004-09-01
• The new photographic memorials are modeled on the United States' Holocaust Museum and its metonymic use of photographs to convey loss.
• The most commonplace metonymic index of industry - the factory chimney - is also metaphorically a phallic symbol.
• On the one hand, in common usage, the term ‘grammar’ metonymically represents linguistic organization, even language itself, tacitly subsuming areas such as vocabulary and pronunciation.
• In metonymic use an attribute or necessary adjunct of something is used as a symbolic object in place of the thing itself.
• Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person. Archive 2008-08-01
• Often one piece of clothing, such as the cheongsam or kimono, supposedly metonymically represents all Asian culture.