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 Translation for 'synecdoche' from English to Italian
NOUN1   a synecdoche | synecdoches
NOUN2   synecdoche | -
lett.retor.
sineddoche {f}
synecdoche
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Translation for 'synecdoche' from English to Italian

synecdoche
sineddoche {f}lett.retor.
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Usage Examples English
  • , was a synecdoche for the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul.
  • Other tropes that may be used to increase the level of allusion include irony, litotes, simile, and metonymy (particularly synecdoche).
  • For Hayden White, tropes historically unfolded in this sequence: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and finally, irony.
  • Pareyon’s output in the field of semiotics is significant mainly through his capital contributions of "polar semiotics", "intersemiotic continuum" and "intersemiotic synecdoche".
  • The phrase "green eyeshades" can be used as a synecdoche for individuals who are excessively concerned with financial matters or small and insignificant details.

  • Within modern American cannabis culture, the term "bowl" is often used as a synecdoche to refer to an entire smoking device, especially a glass pipe.
  • In two different election pamphlets, Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil party addressed voters as "Dalcassians", the term having become a romantic synecdoche for the Irish as a whole.
  • Synecdoche is also popular in advertising. Since synecdoche uses a part to represent a whole, its use requires the audience to make associations and "fill in the gaps", engaging with the ad by thinking about the product.
  • The last two are defined as change between whole and part, which would today be rendered as "synecdoche".
  • ... , with Dom being used in German language - pars pro toto - as a synecdoche for collegiate churches and cathedrals alike) was erected between 1389 and 1485.

  • The inverse of a "pars pro toto" is a "totum pro parte", in which the whole is used to describe a part. The term "synecdoche" is used for both.
  • The "robe of golden thread" is a synecdoche for Li Qi's official career.
  • The phrase is occasionally used as metonym or synecdoche for the tribunal of men (also called "regicides") who ordered the king's execution.
  • , its main dialect, through synecdoche.
  • Like Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay or – formerly – Wilhelmstrasse, the address has become a synecdoche for governmental power.

  • Kramer explains this was the most difficult speech he had ever written. George W. Bush was re-elected on the trope of "moral values," which served as a synecdoche for gay men and lesbians.
  • The majority of icons are encoded and decoded using metonymy, synecdoche, and metaphor.
  • Lord Hoffmann in that same decision observed that a patentee may have intended a word or phrase to have not a literal but rather a figurative meaning, the figure being a form of synecdoche - (a form of the metaphor in which the part mentioned signifies the whole); or metonymy (a form of metaphor denoting the relation between two objects.
  • The traditional Chinese symbol for civilization and state was "gu" "grains; cereals" (a synecdoche for "agricultural products").
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