0 relating to or using metaphors (= expressions that describe a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics):
The nights are darker here. I don't mean that metaphorically, I'm talking about the quality of the night.
She tells the story of a woman who is metaphorically buried alive - by marriage, by the past.
Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns.
We thus metaphorically refer to this kind of movement as 'agnostic' movement.
In principle, this applies to all specialist terms, including those which become de-terminologized by being used metaphorically or less precisely in standard usage.
Metaphorically, there is no transportation of properties across the (sortal) gulf that separates the two domains.
They appear to believe they are speaking scientifically, not metaphorically, and that their words have some natural meaning that does not require explanation.
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