(n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
Example Sentences:
(1) Catachresis (M) (a tool is used for an unusual purpose or a machine is required to exceed normal work load).
Malapropism
Definition:
(n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Example Sentences:
(1) My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story, and was given slightly to malapropisms.
(2) Her Mrs Malaprop in Belgrade Theatre's touring production of Sheridan's The Rivals was hailed as "the play's vociferous focal point".
(3) In some patients, the combinative ambiguity or malapropism expresses the fear of reprisal through the transformation into a self-inflicted injury.
(4) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.