Metaphor is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for METAPHOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words
• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
• a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else
• 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.
• a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
• type of figure of speech
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of figure of speech
• figure of speech in which a term is applied to something it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance

Words related to METAPHOR

metaphoric19 metaphorist18 metaphorists19 metaphors16

Words that contain METAPHOR

metaphors16 metaphoric19 metaphorist18 metaphorical21 metaphorists19 metaphorically26 unmetaphorical23 nonmetaphorical24

How to use METAPHOR in a sentence

• If we may use the metaphor of Horace, we should say, that Mr.
• Often, also, both orators and poets define by metaphor, relying on some verbal resemblance, and indeed not without giving a certain degree of pleasure.
• The great transcendentalist metaphor has always been, as I lately reminded you, a grammatical sentence.
• And, to finish the metaphor, to work it out, I was listening to its voice.
• But all this longer statement of an obvious view comes back to the metaphor I have employed.
• Hence it would be no extravagant metaphor, should we affirm that some persons see more with their minds than others with their eyes.
• By a striking metaphor capital is often described as the seed corn of industry.
• With this phrase the metaphor of the perennial spring, of the inextinguishable youth, of running waters, as applied to Mr.
• From this point of view the justification of the metaphor of mechanical balance is quite clear.
• The hackneyed metaphor of a Pisgah view across the promised land applies to him with singular propriety.
• Her name means she who causes to cross, that is who saves, life and its troubles being by a common metaphor described as a sea.
• Believe me, it is no mere poetic metaphor which connects in Scripture, Light with Life.
• Nietzsche always escaped a question by a physical metaphor, like a cheery minor poet.
• My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Retzsch has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul.
• Each tribe presented its claims, and metaphor shouldered metaphor.
• With this very picturesque metaphor I close my letter.
• This study has, if the metaphor may be allowed, a very extended frontier.
• I am using no metaphor now, but speaking of that which is actual and tangible.
• To change the metaphor, the canvas was now prepared, scoured, bleached and stretched.
• Farm, metaphor of a, applied to national economy, 11.
• Judge thou from this metaphor how the world of the Kingdom hath shone down, and how its laws have been made to work in this nether realm.
• This farming metaphor was borrowed from Nick, who had many others at his command suited to the various classes of constituents he wished to reach.
• The stars by a far-fetched metaphor are said to be concealed, though not extinguished, just as the light of a dark lantern is shut off by a slide.
• It is indeed mere metaphor to talk of the eloquence of mute nature, or the language of winds and waves.
• But the actual communion of the dead and the living is for us a beautiful and inspiring metaphor rather than a concrete belief.
• Such things are the best this good author gives us, whether they go gay with metaphor, or be bare thoughts shapely with their own truth.
• When we apply this metaphor to annihilation, we usually think of the fuel or receptacle and our mind dwells sadly on the heap of ashes or the extinguished lamp.
• This whole speech so considered, is a remarkable instance of judgment, as it consists entirely of antithesis and metaphor.
• The one representation is plain fact, the other is metaphor which points precisely in the same direction.

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