metaphor

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
 * 3) * 1979, Daniel Breazeale (translator),, ' [1873, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn], in Philosophy and Truth, page 84, quoted in 1998', , 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.
 * 1)  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
 * 1) * 1979, Daniel Breazeale (translator),, ' [1873, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn], in Philosophy and Truth, page 84, quoted in 1998', , 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.
 * 1)  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

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: istiarə, məcaz, metafora
 * Belarusian: мета́фара
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 比喻
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: metafor
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: metafoor
 * Finnish:
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 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μεταφορά
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, hasonlóságon alapuló névátvitel
 * Icelandic: myndlíking, myndhverfing
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: meafar
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: метафора
 * Khmer: ធម្មារម្មណ៍
 * Korean:, 은유(隱喩), 암유(暗喩)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຄໍາອຸປະມາ, ຄຳອຸບປະມາ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: мета́фора
 * Malay: metafora
 * Maori: huahuatau, kupu whakarite
 * Mongolian:
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 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: metafor
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мета̀фора
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: metafora
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: истиора,
 * Tatar: метафора
 * Thai: อุปลักษณ์,, อุปไมย
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: мета́фора
 * Urdu: استعارہ
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (隱喻)
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: מעטאַפֿאָר


 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: metafor
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: metaforo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μεταφορά
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: metafor
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мета̀фора
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: sitiari
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, phép ẩn dụ


 * Indonesian:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To use a metaphor.
 * 2)  To describe by means of a metaphor.