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- Art is a Celtic masculine given name, meaning "bear", thus figuratively "champion".
- Algren described Ashland Avenue as figuratively connecting Chicago to Warsaw in Poland.
- Given that numbers are used figuratively throughout the Book of Revelation, idealists interpret this number figuratively as well.
- It is distinct from the homograph "lustrum" (...): a haunt of wild beasts (and figuratively, a den of vice), plural "lustra" (...).
- The town is mentioned figuratively in the Bible, in Deuteronomy and Book of Hosea.
- Thus, Alabama took South Carolina by the hand only figuratively but actually delayed her secession until the departure of Mississippi and Florida.
- The term is often used figuratively in other contexts, in addition to its meaning as a general state of angst or melancholy.
- Described as a comedy drama, far away both literally and figuratively from his childhood on Palm Island.
- One need not suppose that Plato intended this as a literal discussion of metempsychosis or reincarnation: perhaps he meant it figuratively.
- Penitentiary Cove was so named on account of its rugged terrain, figuratively confining a visitor like a penitentiary.
- In 1762, "Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française" recorded that the term could figuratively describe something "irregular, bizarre or unequal".
- Robert Jessup (born July 18, 1952) is an American painter. Creating abstract works since 2011, he painted figuratively for most of his career, particularly large triptychs.
- Gallina is derived from the Spanish word "gallina", meaning "hen", and used figuratively to denote a coward.
- 5. Figur "figuraliter" ‘figuratively’ = standard received metaphor for L.
- The term oracle is used figuratively to describe various terms in science and engineering.
- A loose cannon is a hazard on the decks of a battleship, figuratively a person acting in a wild and unpredictable manner.
- Pintwater Range was figuratively named due to a lack of water.
- More recently the term is occasionally used figuratively to describe a situation in which people shower praise on one another in excess.
- Krasnaya Moskva ([...] , literally "Red Moscow", figuratively "Beautiful Moscow") was the first Soviet-created perfume.
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