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metaphor
English
Etymology
From Middle French métaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek ???????? (metaphorá), from ???????? (metaphér?, “I transfer, apply”), from ???? (metá, “with, across, after”) + ???? (phér?, “I bear, carry”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?.t?.f?/, /?m?t.?.f??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?t.?.f??/
- (US, rare) IPA(key): /?m?.t?.f?/
- Hyphenation: me?ta?phor
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
metaphor (countable and uncountable, plural metaphors)
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase.
- Coordinate term: simile (when the similarity is made explicit by the words like or as)
- (countable, rhetoric) A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
- 1874, John Seely Hart, First Lessons in Composition, page 92,
- A Metaphor may be changed into a Simile, and also into plain language, containing neither metaphor nor simile. Thus:
- Metaphor. — Idleness is the rust of the soul.
- Simile. — As rust is to iron, so is idleness to the soul, taking away its strength and power of resistance.
- Plain. — Idleness takes away from the soul its strength and power of resistance.
- 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.
- 1874, John Seely Hart, First Lessons in Composition, page 92,
- (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
Hypernyms
- (rhetoric): figure of speech, trope
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- analogy
- idiom
- metonymy, metonym
- simile
- allegory
Verb
metaphor (third-person singular simple present metaphors, present participle metaphoring, simple past and past participle metaphored)
- (intransitive) To use a metaphor.
- (transitive) To describe by means of a metaphor.
Anagrams
- prothema
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straitjacket
English
Alternative forms
- strait jacket, strait-jacket
- straightjacket (misspelling)
Etymology
From strait +? jacket.
Pronunciation
Noun
straitjacket (plural straitjackets)
- A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
- Synonym: (dated) straitwaistcoat
- (figuratively) Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
- 2009, Michael Giffin, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 99:
- [I]f we remain in one discipline, we remain in a straitjacket; an adequate theory of language evolution requires a lot of interdisciplinary work.
- 2009, Michael Giffin, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 99:
Translations
Verb
straitjacket (third-person singular simple present straitjackets, present participle straitjacketing, simple past and past participle straitjacketed)
- (literally) To put someone into a straitjacket.
- (by extension) To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.
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