synecdochical
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it
to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech
Related & opposite
- synecdoche derivation
- figurative similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | synecdoche |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | figurative |