You can look it up: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Here we have a synecdoche, which is the result of a function shift, which in turn is a clipping of picture tube. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
And he says that this rule applies in two ways: either to the figure of speech called synecdoche, or to legitimate numbers. From Wordnik.com. [On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books] Reference
He's just jealous that he can't work the word "synecdoche" into casual conversation. From Wordnik.com. [What's your point?] Reference
Oh you just wrote this article so that you could use the word "synecdoche" in a sentence. fun4you. From Wordnik.com. [The Phenomenon of Emma Clark: The Twilight Viral Video Woman | /Film] Reference
I reached the age of 34 without realizing that the word "synecdoche" is not pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
In a grad school discussion about "synecdoche", one of our classmates kept pronouncing it. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
The word "synecdoche" is pronounced in a similar way to "Schenectady," which is where the movie is set. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
Barents wants to hear his students discuss not only metaphor and imagery, but poetic elements such as synecdoche and synesthesia. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
A "synecdoche" is a grammatical term meaning the part for the whole, like referring to headlights to describe a car driving down the road. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
Our synecdoche that indicates the whole with a part. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Miller: Okay, Really. Now You Have To Go] Reference
You could call this one a part-for-whole synecdoche. From Wordnik.com. [Say It Like This, Mean It Like That] Reference
“In all things, synecdoche” has been my mode du jour. From Wordnik.com. [Also | clusterflock] Reference
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, synecdoche is. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three » Making Sense of Synecdoche, New York (Sort Of) - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference
Miss Dartle does not bear on her back a synecdoche of victimization. From Wordnik.com. [The hat trick] Reference
But probably the ministers thought it to be another case of synecdoche. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
The story delivers an elegant synecdoche for race relations in America. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for Mr. White] Reference
This can be fun with synecdoche, but it is not anything more than that. From Wordnik.com. [Obesity is NOT a Disease] Reference
(The author refers, by way of synecdoche, to these faculties as vision.). From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Obviously I object to this latest example of disingenuous synecdoche from the Right. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
Long-winded as I am today, I'd say it's a classical case of synecdoche-in-the-making. From Wordnik.com. [A Blog is Not a Post, Dammit! — Climb to the Stars] Reference
And I can see that perhaps I've pushed synecdoche into rooms it was never meant to visit. From Wordnik.com. [Say It Like This, Mean It Like That] Reference
Alda and Burstyn may be sometime lovers, but they are also a synecdoche for American history. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of the Two-Sex World] Reference
When this relation is that of a part to the whole or of the whole to a part, the figure is synecdoche. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
(No synecdoche here, by the way, because "light bulb" - is merely a metaphor, and a lame one at that.). From Wordnik.com. [Say It Like This, Mean It Like That] Reference
They are predominantly from "blue states," a synecdoche for Democratic states, in the West and Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [December's U.S. Attorney Massacre: The Plot Thickens] Reference
Finally, I decided I could live with this as a bit of clumsy synecdoche that worked well enough for the novel's needs. From Wordnik.com. [Fever Dreams of Your FBI] Reference
But he's GOT to stop using the Wall Street/Main Street synecdoche, it's getting to be like fingernails on a blackboard. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
Figures in Sound short audio and video clips illustrating stylistic figures of speech ranging from alliteration to synecdoche. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Oratory in the United States] Reference
I also know that I used synecdoche in that last sentence and I'm also glad to teach you the difference between it and metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [a hundred and ten cornets close at hand] Reference
By synecdoche, if it refers to the whole series of acts opposed to Predestination; by catachresis, if it refers to non-election. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
Reply Obj. 1: Sometimes by the figure of synecdoche a part of man, especially the soul which is the principal part, denotes a man. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The roughly 50 al Qaeda fighters remaining in Afghanistan have become a synecdoche for the whole of the Muslim Middle East and South Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Stephan Salisbury: Terrorama: The Next Congress Will See Terror in Everything] Reference
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