Saturday, December 20, 2003

Looking at Latin translation pages this morning, I found one linked to the search tool, WebGlimpse, and looks like a powerful and well maintained open-source search engine product.

Thursday, December 04, 2003

Metonymy:
Noah Webster 1828 definition: [ (from two greek words meaning over, beyond and name) In rhetoric, a trope in which one word is put for another; a change of names which have some relation to each other; as when we say, "a man keeps a good table", instead of "good provisions". We read Virgil, that is his poems. They have Moses and the prophets, that is their books or writings. A man has clear head, that is understanding, intellect; a warm heart, that is, affections.]

Metonymy ("met-AH-na-mee") is the rhetorical or metaphorical substitution of a one thing for another based on their association or proximity. Examples: a monarch is not the same thing as a crown, but we often refer to the monarch as "the crown" because the two are associated. -- from Jack Lynch's Guide to Literary Terms

Metonymic:
hyperdictionary definition -- "[adj] using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated; "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"

Metonym:
A word that is used metonymically; a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
Starting a new blog today for metonymns and other related words.