0 relating to or using metonymy (= referring to something using a word that describes one of its qualities or features):
There might be less creativity in metonymic language use than the authors assume.
“From the cradle to the grave” is a metonymic expression that represents two abstract terms, birth and death, with two (concrete) symbols.
Her poetry produces a metonymic web of association.
Finally, the relationship between power/force and its material support was complicated by the metonymic quality of the body.
Its effects make themselves felt on other levels as well through a sort of direct metaphoric or metonymic transfer from one to the other.
The information that there is some metonymic event and that the predicate involved is a subtype of act-on-pred is not default, and cannot be overridden.
There is not much common ground between the temporal sense and the idea of moderating or compromising, although the metonymic development is plausible.
The two last-named pairs have typical brother names of metonymic construction.
