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Quick definitions (Metonymy)

noun:   substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

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Encyclopedia article:
Metonymy, a term of rhetoric and cognitive linguistics, is the use of a single characteristic to identify a more complex entity. It is also known as denominatio.

In rhetoric, metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated...
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What I described above is "litotes."

(Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here, thinking to myself and talking out loud...)

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Oh yes, the next word.

GRAPE DIRT

GRAPE DIRT

There is purple sand under the pear tree with the partridge in it... Merry Christmas!

HUN BRIDES.... had to watch out for Atilla's swift sword.

HUN BRIDES

Burnished

CANAL LAITY

CANAL LAITY

analytical

TRUE APPLE ? Forever!

TRUE APPLE

As time sinks through the hourglass.....
perpetual....


Peanuts! Soon!.... Hot, boiled peanuts, yum yum... now!

Peanuts! Soon!

Spontaneous

ICIEST ALPS

ICIEST ALPS

specialist

A BAT RELIC (Sammy Sosa souvenier)

A BAT RELIC...

leaves messes that are quite BACTERIAL

RATION FAME - It comes very seldom.

This is a test!

Farina tome?

Mafia tenor?

If it had another OR, and one A fewer, it would be REFORMATION, which indeed comes very seldom.

But it doesn't, so it isn't.

The letters do make FETORMANIA, which if it existed would be a fascination with bad smells...

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Is it 1 or 2 words? Could we please have a hint?

I'd have to have a hole in my head to give you more than a simple clue. One word...

Another nice one. Never would have gotten it without your help:

FORAMINATE

And a T-short (for coming up with a solution the editors didn't think of) for BACTERIAL, which is indeed an anagram of A BAT RELIC. I had in mind yet another nine-letter word - can we find it?

A BAT RELIC = BACTERIAL

PS. a lot of Life Sciences words in your active vocabulary - are you in the field?

and calibrate..!

I was sure somebody would measure up!

Now it's your turn to post a word.

Somehow I missed Hab's talking to himself (remember, long ago I wondered if there is a word for "talking to oneself") about "metonymy." That word is fairly new to me, and I really like it. Apparently it is also used in schizophrenia when a related word is used in place of a correct one.

Thunderstorm

[Jo, if I recall from the chat, you are a linguist, and not in life sciences, correct?]

SEMITONIC APLEX

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I thought of the answer right away! But now I've forgotten it. It was an AMNESIC EXPLOIT.

(And when my hillbilly friend messed up and had to pay for it later, it was CLEM'S EXPIATION.)

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policeman exist??

POLITE MEXICANS?

POETICAL MINXES (KHC, Kalleh, Jo and Cat?)

SPLENETIC AXIOM?

<sigh> I give up...

SEMITONIC APLEX

Varieties of COMPLEXITY but not COMPLEXION (one O too many).

I know EXEMPLIFY, from which comes EXEMPLIFICATION. One might then pluralize it to EXEMPLIFICATIONS, though I would consider it a strain.

Are there EXEMPLICATIONS as well? It uses all the letters, anyway...

Kalleh 54, where are you? Help...

Gosh, I thought maybe I had misspelled it, but I haven't (I don't think! ).

Hint: I found this word while reading an article about how Americans tend to think we are unique, and this word refers to the condition of being unique.

Funny, look at the 2 previous posts. KHC and I posted at exactly the same time.

Okay, I will give you until tomorrow morning to get it, and if you don't, I will post the answer.

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This seems like an exceptionally hard word.

If you don't get it by tomorrow, I will post the word...and then another, easier, anagram.

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EXCEPTIONALISM ??

Grumble. Sounds like one of my worse attempts at stringing together prefixes and suffixes to make a plausible-sounding word-oid!

Now I don't feel too bad about not having figured it out myself.

CLERUSYL

Sorry, Hab! Now, I have to try to figure out yours....

Not to worry. Wasn't _your_ word; you don't have to apologize for it, just because to me it feels more like psychobabble than like a real word. What is a word, anyway? "EASTRING" looks and sounds like a word, but is it one? If I use it, and you know what I meant, does _that_ make it a word? How many people have to use it before it is "generally" accepted? Who says so?

(/rant)

I have the feeling this has been gone over many times before, here and elsewhere...

CLERUSYL

Sounds like a spot-removal cream...

Scullery

DECENT SIESTA

What is a word, anyway?

Do you know how many times I have asked that question on this site? I agree with you; it isn't clear to me at all what makes a grouping of letters a word. Just because somebody coins "cybersquatting," does that make it a word? When does it become one? Does it have to be in a published dictionary? If so, which one? Or, as jheem says, is language always evolving? I fear that question will never be answered.

As to "exceptionalism," it was probably a bad choice for this game. So, my apology sticks! I am just glad I didn't misspell it, though.

Now, to arnie's word....

new jumble

NIGHT LIBRE

NIGHT LIBRE

BLITHERING

(prepared to go back and start over if you had something else in mind)

AERATED IDS (punched holes in your driver's license?)

PS And good for you, Arnie; I had thought "scullery" might be a little more trouble, but you got it right away!

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desiderata ..... Makes me think of college days!

Arnie probably has a scullery maid hanging about..

No, but I do have a scullery.

ONE RICCO

Coercion

THY COLOGNE

laced mini

new jumble

laced mini

Medicinal

ARCANE RUSES

arcane ruses

REASSURANCE

RAIN RAIN GO TO ZE (an apt word for this thread)

RAIN RAIN GO TO ZE

REORGANIZATION

OOPS, forgot the next jumble.

CRAVE A TRIPE - weird eating habits!

new jumble din tooths rot

din tooths rot

Orthodontist

RASPY SAIL

RASPY SAIL

paralysis

FIAT LINEN (I insist on fine tablecloths)

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