(1) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(2) That is, through the process of displacement, the phallus also functions as a metonymic symbol.
(3) To fully appreciate penis envy, both the metaphoric and metonymic meanings assigned to femininity must be analysed.
(4) When disaster occurs in the shape of income-tax demands or illness, it is the "home" that he metonymically laments.
(5) Moreover, people understand metaphoric referential descriptions more easily than they do metonymic ones.
(6) Subjects were faster at reinstating the antecedents for literal referential descriptions than at reinstating metaphoric and metonymic descriptions.
(7) Commissioned by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, it was initially a museum devoted to rock music; the bizarre glass strips resting on the roof are, strange to say, a metonym for guitar frets.
(8) The comparison revealed such disorders in hebephrenic speech as semantic alteration (metaphorical and metonymic) of the linguistic tropic type and syntax disorders including inhibition of the expansion of phrases introduced by functional monemes (morphemes), whether primary or secondary.
(9) People can be referred to metaphorically, as in calling a terrible boxer "a creampuff," or metonymically, as in calling a naval admiral "the brass."
(10) The results of three experiments indicated that metaphoric and metonymic referential descriptions reinstate their antecedents in the course of comprehension.
(11) Those programmes are the products of hundreds of extraordinary skilled, patient, brave and resourceful professionals – but his name has become a metonym for them, a byword for a certain quality of programming and, it may be suspected, the magic password that allows them to get made.
Metonymy
Definition:
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two patient groups showed quite relevant differences as to their own expressive modalities in the use of metaphor and metonymy, which are considered as the graphic representation means of the illness.
(2) Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters.