Bacchus: Created page with "'''metaphor''' ''noun'' # A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “''a sea of troubles''” or # One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol. # A figure of speech by which, from some supposed resemblance or analogy, a name, an attribute, or an action belonging to or characteristic of one object is assigned to another to which it is not litera..."

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Created page with "'''metaphor''' ''noun'' # A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “''a sea of troubles''” or # One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol. # A figure of speech by which, from some supposed resemblance or analogy, a name, an attribute, or an action belonging to or characteristic of one object is assigned to another to which it is not litera..."

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'''metaphor'''

''noun''
# A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “''a sea of troubles''” or
# One thing conceived as representing another; a [[symbol]].
# A figure of speech by which, from some supposed resemblance or analogy, a name, an attribute, or an action belonging to or characteristic of one object is assigned to another to which it is not literally applicable; the figurative transfer of a descriptive or affirmative word or phrase from one thing to another; implied comparison by transference of terms: as, the ship spread its wings to the breeze; “''Judah is a lion's whelp''” Genesis. xlix. 9.

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