Metonymy vs. Meronymy

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.

Meronymynoun

(semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.

Meronymynoun

the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole