Term: metaphor: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Candidate hypernym: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense → 1
Candidate hypernym: check: the bill in a restaurant → 0
Candidate hypernym: clock watcher: a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time → 0
Candidate hypernym: apple tart: a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar → 0
Candidate hypernym: funk: a state of nervous depression → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus pecopteris: genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns → 0
Candidate hypernym: flow: any uninterrupted stream or discharge → 0
Candidate hypernym: wind tunnel: a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft → 0
Candidate hypernym: psophocarpus: species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: paraduodenal smear: alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the duodenum → 0
Candidate hypernym: flightiness: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment → 0