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SYNECDOCHICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it
Example:
to use 'hand' for 'worker' or 'ten sail' for 'ten ships' or 'steel' for 'sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech
Synonyms:
synecdochic; synecdochical
Classified under:
Similar:
figurative; nonliteral ((used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech)
Derivation:
synecdoche (substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa)
