0 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"
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?
