| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 3,915,563,249 visitors served. |
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
metonymy |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia | 0.01 sec. |
|
|
metonymy [mĕ-ton´ĭ-me] a disturbance of language seen in schizophrenia in which an inappropriate but related term is used instead of the correct one. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
|
| Mentioned in | ? | References in periodicals archive | ? | Medical browser | ? | Full browser | ? | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No references found | Some authors consider such 'humansomatic' figures to be metaphors, whereas others (obviously including Feyaerts and Brone) qualify them as metonymies. To better understand the artefactual metonymies all around us, we can consider how everyday objects are often more than the material items that they seem to be. Their topics include functional aspects of the nervous system, color metonymies in English, linguistic synesthesia as poetic device in cologne advertising, and cross-cultural and neuro-semiotic dimensions of olfactory and visual processing and verbalization. |
metonymies |
Metolazone Metolquizolone Metolquizolone metomidate Meton Meton of Athens Metonic Metonic Metonic calendar Metonic calendar Metonic cycle Metonic cycle Metonic cycles Metonic cycles Metonic year Metonomy Metonomy Metonomy metonym metonym metonym metonymic metonymic metonymic metonymical metonymical metonymical metonymically metonymically metonymically metonymies metonymsmetonymy metonymy metonymy metoo MetOp metopan hydrochloride metope metope Metopes Metopes metopic metopic metopic metopic suture metopic suture metopion metopion Metopism Metopium toxiferum Metopium toxiferum metopo- Metopomancy metopon metopon metopoplasty Metoposcopic Metoposcopist Metoposcopy Metoposcopy | |||||||
| Medical Dictionary |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Free toolbar & extensions |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup |
|---|
-t
n
)