Examples of synecdoche

• 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.

• In the heroic age, metonymy and synecdoche support the development of feudal or monarchic institutions embodied by idealized figures.