What's the difference between fon and metaphor?

Fon


Definition:

  • (a.) A fool; an idiot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of those was Fon, an independent retailer in Sheffield run by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell.
  • (2) The amounts of Fon acquired by the enamel surface (one application) rank as APF gel approximately Duraphat much less than Fluor Protector.
  • (3) Gramofon buyers will also become Fon members, able to access the company's network of hotspots – although as with Fon's existing routers, this means "sharing a bit of Wi-Fi at home" – allowing other Fon members within range to use their internet connection.
  • (4) This became so true that T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom and BT all became shareholders in Fon."
  • (5) "What we showed with Fon was that you would only share with those who share back," he says.
  • (6) Fossil fuel ticker Garanti Bankası Türkiye’deki yeni kömür santrallerine en büyük fon sağlayan kurum.
  • (7) The two forms were found in a fissure filling of Upper Eocene age (Fons 4) from Dielsdorf (Zürich region, Switzerland).
  • (8) Similarly, when Varsavsky launched Fon, it ran into determined opposition from telecoms businesses, which said that the company's vision of shared Wi-Fi was against their terms of service.
  • (9) However, when setting up Fon, Varsavsky became convinced that people needed a nudge or financial incentive before they'd happily share their assets.
  • (10) As delta FON tended to increase with the best frequency (BF) of units the lowest BRCF encountered among all units for a given BF also increased as a function of BF.
  • (11) "From a humanitarian perspective we are increasingly concerned about the situation," said Elias Fon, Islamic Relief's regional co-ordinator for west Africa .
  • (12) Fon has built a business running 13m Wi-Fi hotspots around the world.
  • (13) Fon and Fin data are presented after various F- treatments and after wearing enamel slabs in dentures for a period of 1 week.
  • (14) The lowest BRCF encountered among all units for a given isointensity ON-response bandwidth (delta FON) increased as a function of delta FON.
  • (15) delta FON was derived from the responses to tone bursts of various frequencies at 70 dB SPL.
  • (16) In this paper the role and importance of 'CaF2-like' material deposited on enamel (Fon) by means of an APF gel and the varnishes Duraphat and Fluor Protector are described and discussed.
  • (17) The results of this work show that if we compare the three fluoridating agents, APF gel, Duraphat varnish, and Fluor Protector varnish in situ, only Fluor Protector shows a measurable amount of Fon after 1 week.
  • (18) Fon says it has been working on the device for more than a year, initially in its New York office as a prototype based on the Raspberry Pi computer, before setting up dedicated engineering teams in Spain, rebuilding it with a chip from Qualcomm.
  • (19) One possibility, argued here by Fons UytdeHaag and colleagues, is that memory is imprinted in the somatically-mutated Ig expressed by certain CD5+ B cells.
  • (20) It was a mistake.” Owain-Fon Williams Williams Reserve goalkeeper Owain Fon Williams is a talented guitarist and artist whose oil paintings have been displayed in galleries throughout Wales.

Metaphor


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (2) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
  • (3) As the metaphors we are using to conduct it show, the migration debate in Britain is sorely in need of some perspective.
  • (4) The spotlight metaphor seems inappropriate for visual attention in a dynamic environment.
  • (5) In a second experiment schizophrenics were significantly different from the depressives in showing less inclination to select a metaphorical meaning to an ambiguous adjective in a sentence.
  • (6) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
  • (7) It postulates the need of all sciences to operate with symbols of various levels of abstractions, including, in a very prominent way, metaphors.
  • (8) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
  • (9) According to the old metaphor of classical cybernetics the brain can be considered as a computer.
  • (10) And Crash is an extreme metaphor of the dangers that I see lying ahead of us.
  • (11) The metaphor of clinical work as textual explication, however, creates the expectation that there is a text somewhere to be found.
  • (12) So perhaps there is a political metaphor here after all.
  • (13) My friend had already climbed the same metaphorical mountain that I had just reached the summit of, and when she had reached the top she sat down and wept, much to the surprise of all her British friends.
  • (14) The results are discussed in terms of hemispheric memory for art works, metaphors, and the relationship between the two in the brain.
  • (15) The Oedipus myth has been a central metaphor in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory, particularly the psychoanalytic theory of development.
  • (16) Second, it refers to a metaphor representing the subjective experience of these patients who are unable to find a permanent identity but feel themselves sitting on the fence between a variety of different identities in a borderline position.
  • (17) The Tories, ever wedded to metaphors about killing foreigners, have called this the "Dambuster" moment.
  • (18) As critics of Mr Berlusconi have been barred from the state broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italia, Mr Fo protests that artists are being "defenestrated" metaphorically from the RAI for the same reasons that leftwing dissidents were literally thrown out of police station windows in the 1970s when Mr Fo wrote his work Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
  • (19) But that's not a metaphor: the universality of computation follows from the known laws of physics.
  • (20) Verbal processes later gain access to this graded perceptual knowledge, thus permitting the interpretation of synesthetic metaphors according to the rules of cross-modal perception.

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