Noun:

ஒரு பொருள் மற்றொன்றாகக் குறிக்கப்படும் ஓர் உருவணி,

metaphor's Usage Examples:

We must take into account not only the idea of the visible actual church, but also the ideal pictured by St Paul in the metaphors of the Body (Rom.

Ah, here they are--the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species!I replaced the bull last year to prevent inbreeding, but I've been pleased with the offspring.

The popular autos that have survived are mainly religious, and show the abuse of metaphor and the conceits which derive from Gongora.

Representations, metaphors, and tools in mathematics didactics.

He uses the term Hades twice metaphorically (Matt.

He teaches (whether suggestively, metaphorically or deliberately), pre-existence' as well as survival; perhaps he is moved to this by non-Greek influences.

A similar use of birch rods has continued among pedagogues to times so recent that the birch is yet, literally or metaphorically, the instrument of school-room discipline.

It has about it the ring of reality; the language is sometimes pithy and vigorous; and now and then we meet with apt metaphors, such as those borrowed from boxing (i.

The English teacher used a tree as a metaphor for her students' abilities to grow into strong, capable adults.

18, i) remarks, " His mother, a cow, bore Indra, an unlicked calf " - probably a metaphorical way of speaking.

His model was Xenophon, whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains from an excessive use of simile and metaphor, and his style is concise and simple.

All of her plans that she had spent so long putting together were a metaphorical trainwreck.

Synonyms:

trope, figure, dead metaphor, figure of speech, synesthetic metaphor, mixed metaphor, image, frozen metaphor,

Antonyms:

divide, multiply, add, differentiate, integrate,