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| has gloss | (adjective) using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech" synecdochical, synecdochic |
| lexicalization | eng: synecdochical |
| lexicalization | eng: synecdochic |
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| similar | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language" figurative, nonliteral |
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