| 词汇 | synecdoche |
| 释义 | synecdoche noun[ C or U ] language specializeduk /sɪˈnek.də.ki/ us /sɪˈnek.də.ki/ a word or phrase in which a part of something is used to refer to the whole of it, for example "a pair of hands" for "a worker", or the whole of something is used to refer to a part, for example "the law" for "a police officer" 举隅，提喻 Ways of speaking accented accentual accentuation aitch articulate asperity asyndetic asyndetically bray fluent intone mispronounce non-metaphorical non-verbal non-verbally orthoepy paralanguage pronounce singsong toned Examples of synecdochesynecdoche In these accounts, the factory product is a synecdoche for the entire empire-wide and subject-deep factory system. As a physical trace of the organization, an official report operates like synecdoche, substituting the part for the whole. This process we can identify, at least poetically, as metonymy or synecdoche. A rhetorical counterpart of tessera is synecdoche, which is a reference to a whole by naming a part of it, or vice versa. We believe that actually meeting families with such children can be a powerful antidote to synecdoche. The term "church" should similarly be construed as a synecdoche for institutions of religious worship in general. The connections are heterogeneous: positive and negative analogy, synecdoche, logical inference, convention, and so on. For what traditional songs might it be a synecdoche? The city's tourist authorities are at pains to promote them as a feature of the town - perhaps a synecdoche for its now (largely illusory) liminal nature. The use of metonymy, synecdoche and catachresis, major aspects of metaphor, are integral to the articulation of meaning in both oratory and architecture through associative practices. The criticism of putting on an act is finally spelled out as 'double-crossing', again coupled to a sensuous impression (crossed 'heels' - a synecdoche for 'legs'?). Here the scratching is used as a synecdoche to refer to the 'coolness' of the hip hop genre. It should be understood as a synecdoche standing for a range of spiritual positions, although some courts have also construed it to cover the position of church choir direction. By a synecdoche, it has come to mean the accounting operations of a firm, however housed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the heroic age, metonymy and synecdoche support the development of feudal or monarchic institutions embodied by idealized figures. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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