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Metonymic meaning
Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
Synonyms of Metonymic
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In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.
In cases that a metonymic shift would be otherwise revealed nearby, the whole sentence may be recast to avoid the metonymy.
Meir (2010) Many signs have metaphoric mappings as well as iconic or metonymic ones.
Simply a pile of decaying leather shoes piled against a bare, gray concrete wall the exhibit relies heavily on the emotional, sensory response the viewer will naturally through this use metonymic technique.
While albeit necessary to some degree in any museum repertoire, the use of authentic artifacts can not only be misleading but as equally problematic as the aforementioned metonymic technique.