| NOMBRE | communication | metáforo, metáfora | 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 |
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| Sentido | 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. | |
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| Sinónimo | metáfora | |
| Específico | metáfora muerta | A metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning / meaning of the expression (e.g., 'he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word 'snake') |
| sinestesia | A metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities | |
| General | imagen, metáfora, tropo | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Inglés | metaphor | |
| Catalán | metàfora | |
| Adjetivo | metafórico | Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another |
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