figuratively Betydning & definition

Eksempler på figuratively

• It does this both figuratively (by rekindling interest in it) and literally, by organising concerts, releasing records, distributing those releases and other merchandise.

• In this sense, the two ideas (nation and empire) were inextricably linked, literally and figuratively.

• Utilized predominantly figuratively, in the vocabulary of cultural studies, the term ' ' adoption' ' designates processes of incorporation at work in colonization.

• The voice is thus, literally and figuratively, disembodied.

• The other homograph, however, is one of those slippery words with meanings that slide into each other and then become figuratively extended.

• Only occasionally does one singer move outside of the performance plane to take centre stage, either literally or figuratively.

• Yet these fantasies return forcefully in her fiction, often "haunted" both literally and figuratively by the maternal voice.

• Figuratively speaking, an event corresponds to a word, for example, a noun, a verb, an adjective, and so on.