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
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: check: the bill in a restaurant
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: clock watcher: a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: apple tart: a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: funk: a state of nervous depression
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: genus pecopteris: genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: flow: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: wind tunnel: a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: psophocarpus: species of tropical Asian and African climbing herbs
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: paraduodenal smear: alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the duodenum
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: flightiness: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment