Metaphor vs. Metonymy

Metaphornoun

The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.

Metaphornoun

The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.

Metaphorverb

(intransitive) To use a metaphor.

Metaphorverb

(transitive) To describe by means of a metaphor.

Metaphornoun

The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.

Metaphornoun

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

Metaphornoun

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Metaphornoun

a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else

Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas.

Metonymynoun

The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.

Metonymynoun

(countable) A metonym.

Metonymynoun

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections; a city dweller has no wheels, that is, no automobile.

Metonymynoun

substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

Metonymy

Metonymy () is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.