(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.
Seller
Definition:
(n.) One who sells.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(2) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(3) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(4) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(5) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(6) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(7) Property experts said a lack of new homes coming on to the market ahead of the general election squeezed prices upwards as sellers awaited the outcome of the vote.
(8) The IPCC held back from independently investigating the death, even after discovering witnesses had come forward to say they had seen Tomlinson attacked by a police officer, and photographs had emerged showing the newspaper seller lying at the feet of riot police.
(9) For the first time this year, the asking prices posted on the Rightmove website for homes in London fell by 0.5% in early June, compared with the month before, in part due to a rapid increase in sellers rushing to cash in on rising prices.
(10) Figures for Amazon are harder to obtain, but UK sellers believe Chinese sellers are leading the field in many product lines on its site, too.
(11) Turkey would be a risk too far when there are safe havens such as the US starting to offer a return on safe investments The nervous state of markets these days means there is generally either a surplus of buyers or a surplus of sellers; only rarely have we seen periods of calm with roughly equal numbers.
(12) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(13) "It's both a protest and a safety measure," said one tobacco seller.
(14) The simplicity and reliability of the fluorescent-antibody technique and the occasional serious complications of prophylactic anti-rabies measures make the diagnostic use of Seller's method at best undesirable and at worst dangerous.
(15) "We are not sellers; we are distributors," he said.
(16) Aortography demonstrated acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending, arch and descending aorta (DeBakey type I) as well as aortic valve regurgitation (Seller's II degree).
(17) Not only does this prevent sellers from evaluating buyers in the same way, but if a seller's rating is affected by detrimental comments, they are not allowed to know which buyer left these and are therefore unable to contest them.
(18) "New-seller asking prices are good lead indicators of the current mood of the market, and those who have put their property up for sale in the last month are obviously aware that potential buyers are thinner on the ground at this time of year and need to be tempted to act by cheaper prices."
(19) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(20) Because another top seller is the relaunched, reinvented Furby , which has returned, smarter and more likely to claim a year-long role at the forefront of your child's nightmares than ever.