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Is a country's name a metonym - and when? E.g.: "The White House" / "Washington" / ..."The U.S.?"

terminology linguistics figurative metonyms synecdoche

Has “Fat Belt” been established as a metonymy for the Midwest? Doesn’t it sound derogatory to the Midwesterners?

slang pejorative-language metonyms

What's the shortest word that can stand for "to leave a legacy"?

single-word-requests synonyms metonyms

Is "facebook" as a verb different from "google" or "photoshop"?

grammaticality verbs differences eponyms metonyms

Would 'Google' be a synecdoche or a metonymy of the internet and technology?

rhetorical-devices metonyms synecdoche

General word for "imaginary bad things"?

terminology translation metonyms

Using a person's name to stand for their body of work

writing-style metonyms

Distinguishing between the camera lens and the lenses inside the camera lens

single-word-requests word-usage metonyms photography

What does "purchasers of a new tablet won’t ‘end up with a doorstop’" mean?

meaning phrases metonyms

What is the opposite of synecdoche?

single-word-requests rhetoric metonyms synecdoche

Predicate Transfer

semantics predicate metonyms

"A cup of hot coffee" or "A hot cup of coffee"

meaning adjectives word-order quantifiers metonyms

Is there a term for referring to an organization by its city rather than by its name?

terminology rhetoric toponyms metonyms synecdoche

Collective nouns and subject-verb agreement: general rule or arbitrary?

grammaticality grammatical-number verb-agreement collective-nouns metonyms

What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?

differences figures-of-speech metonyms synecdoche