metaphor
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(rhetoric, uncountable)The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.
- 2.
(countable, rhetoric)A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
1979, Daniel Breazeale (translator), Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense [1873, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn], in Philosophy and Truth, page 84, quoted in 1998, Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology, page 103, What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seems to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.
- 3.
(countable)(countable, graphical user interface) The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
desktop metaphor; wastebasket metaphor
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To use a metaphor.
- 2.
(transitive)To describe by means of a metaphor.
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ine-pro From Middle French métaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek μεταφορά, from μεταφέρω (to transfer, apply), from μετά (with, across, after) + φέρω (to bear, carry).