metonymy

[Me*ton·y*my]

When you refer to something by the name of one of its parts, that’s metonymy, like saying “my wheels” instead of "my car."

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A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

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


n.
A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.


Metonymy

Me*ton"y*my (?; 277), n. [L. metonymia, Gr. ; , indicating change + , for a name: cf. F. m'82tonymie. See Name.] (Rhet.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

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