Term: metonymy: substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: brushwood: the wood from bushes or small branches
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: trip: a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: indent: an order for goods to be exported or imported
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: sheepman: a man who raises (or tends) sheep
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: incumbent: the official who holds an office
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: violet: a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: exponent: a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: carbon disulfide: a toxic colorless flammable liquid (CS2); used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane and carbon tetrachloride and as a solvent for rubber
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: gymnelis: a genus of Zoarcidae
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: change-up: a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball