metonymical

This is what we call a metonymical extension - where a word extends its meaning to something contiguous with its original meaning (and may or may not eventually abandon its original meaning) e.g. "glass" means both the substance and something such as a drinking vessel made of glass.

Quote of the Day 2005

Sure, he provides plenty of linguistic examples of the types of mappings metaphorical, metonymical, polysemic, etc., and even the types of inferences made, but no description of how any of this occurs.

Archive 2004-09-01 Chris 2004

Moreover, by showing how Tokyo has always been both more and less than the capital city of Japan–a metonymical place for all things national, I use the history of Tokyo and its rivers to show how the city worked as a nexus amidst several layers of cultural, social, and economic networks–local, regional, national, imperial and international.

井の中の蛙 » Capital and Water: The Role of Rivers in Tokyo City Planning, 1880s-1940s » Print 2004

Moreover, by showing how Tokyo has always been both more and less than the capital city of Japan–a metonymical place for all things national, I use the history of Tokyo and its rivers to show how the city worked as a nexus amidst several layers of cultural, social, and economic networks–local, regional, national, imperial and international.

Why I love classical literature 2004

Moreover, by showing how Tokyo has always been both more and less than the capital city of Japan–a metonymical place for all things national, I use the history of Tokyo and its rivers to show how the city worked as a nexus amidst several layers of cultural, social, and economic networks–local, regional, national, imperial and international.

Capital and Water: The Role of Rivers in Tokyo City Planning, 1880s-1940s 2004

Moreover, by showing how Tokyo has always been both more and less than the capital city of Japan–a metonymical place for all things national, I use the history of Tokyo and its rivers to show how the city worked as a nexus amidst several layers of cultural, social, and economic networks–local, regional, national, imperial and international.

Capital and Water: The Role of Rivers in Tokyo City Planning, 1880s-1940s 2004

Sure, he provides plenty of linguistic examples of the types of mappings metaphorical, metonymical, polysemic, etc., and even the types of inferences made, but no description of how any of this occurs.

Lakoff's View of Metaphors Chris 2004

Moreover, this form of speech, that the stone shall be Beth-el, is metonymical; as we are sanctioned, by common usage, to transfer to external signs what properly belongs to the things represented.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

Secondly, It is not a presence by virtue of a metonymical denomination, or an expression of the cause for the effect, that is intended.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Many reasons might be given of this metonymical expression, that I shall not now insist on.

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967