To use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Even a seemingly unambiguous word like "taxes" - has acquired synecdochic tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Say It Like This, Mean It Like That] Reference
Heck, the word "liberal" - itself is, for some of those who stand on the other side of the red/blue divide, a synecdochic stand-in for "tax-and-spend homosexual-loving anti-Americans.". From Wordnik.com. [Say It Like This, Mean It Like That] Reference
In "The Angry Owner: Samuel Richardson, Modern Authorship and the Ancient Romance," Kathryn Temple situates a similar slippage between eighteenth-century concepts of copyright and such issues as classical appropriation, sea piracy, and the synecdochic theft of the female body. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Juridical Texts and Transgressive Containment] Reference
The desire to unmask a-- or the -- conspiracy, the desire for a totalizing perspective, is always met by conspiracy's self-defining proposition that it can never fully be known, that the absence of conspiracy is its best evidence, and that the conspiracy always turns out to be just a conspiracy, one counter-plot to a plot's many counter-plots, oscillating proof for either a synecdochic whole or an infinite metonymic chain. From Wordnik.com. [Wang, Introduction] Reference
Final Fantasy IX, weapons have a mutually supportive and synecdochic relationship to their owners. From Wordnik.com. [Destructoid] Reference
The word gourd is a synecdochic use of a metaphor for the human head, which has cognates in a good many languages. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4] Reference
That Starbucks line was obviously a joke, but a synecdochic one (you all know that word, right?), with the coffee chain standing in for a modicum of urbanity, diversity, the meeting of certain basic demographic conditions and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Returning through his own "actual experience" to the synecdochic analysis of a "single point" of oppression, Cobbett was again able to deploy autobiography as a means of political resistance. (. From Wordnik.com. [William Cobbett and the Politics of System] Reference
And I found that when I allowed myself to be open to it, when I let myself ignore the things on the surface that are amusing (the camera angles, the extraordinary editing, the wonderful odd archness of it all) and instead entered into the world of the film simply as its own thing, not something to be interpreted or contextualized, it did, indeed, contain kernels of lingering, haunting feeling -- the weirdness becomes a touchstone, the aesthetic elements (music, image, voice) pull out emotion with a synecdochic force: none of this surface stuff is what has happened in my life, but it is what certain times felt like, or should have felt like. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Nico's been adding words to her lexicon at an exponential rate. sometimes she means what they usually mean, but sometimes she'll use them more broadly. so, for instance, she says "uh oh" if something falls to the ground, but she'll also say it as she's deliberately tossing something on the floor. other uses seem more synecdochic. e.g., she sees lots of pictures of babies, so "baby" could mean baby, or it could refer to a picture or pictures (not necessarily of a baby). similarly, she recently learned to "woof" like a dog from one of those books about animals and the sounds they make, so she currently uses the word "woof" also to say "book." the contents of her vocabulary, more or less in order of plausible utterance - baby light mama uh-oh hi bye musicologist, internet annotator, and rapper-ternt-blogger. From Wordnik.com. [wayneandwax.com] Reference
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