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The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.

The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.

The application of a concept to that which it is not literally the same but which suggests a resemblance and comparison. Medical metaphors were widespread in ancient literature; the description of a sick body was often used by ancient writers to define a critical condition of the State, in which one corrupt part can ruin the entire system. (From Med Secoli Arte Sci, 1990;2 (3):abstract 331)

A figure of speech by which one thing is spoken of as something else to which it has some likeness; as, God's word is a lamp to our feet.

Metaphoric, metaphorical.

A trope; giving one object the sense of another.

A figure of speech in which one object is spoken of as if it were another.

A figure of speech in which one word is used for another of which it is the image.

A figure of speech expressed in a single word- for example, "the man is a fox," is a metaphor; "the man is as crafty as a fox," is a simile; words used in a figurative sense, as opposed to their literal meaning, are used in metaphor, and the language is called metaphorical.

n. [Greek] A comparison or similitude in a condensed form, or conveyed in a single word; a rhetorical figure o speech in which mental or moral qualities are expressed by natural or physical attributes. It differs from simile, in that the signs of comparison are omitted, and the analogy is univocal without the addition of expletives or adjectives.