metaphor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French métaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá), from μεταφέρω (metaphérō, “to transfer, apply”), from μετά (metá, “with, across, after”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”).
Inflected forms:
form: metaphors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metaphors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: metaphoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: metaphored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: metaphored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
uncountable
examples: The next group of computational approaches to metaphor assume that metaphor is basically a hidden analogy.
gloss: A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
examples: A Metaphor, in place of proper words,
Resemblance puts; and dress to speech affords.
A Metaphor may be changed into a Simile, and also into plain language, containing neither metaphor nor simile. Thus:
Metaphor. — Idleness is the rust of the soul.
Simile. — As rust is to iron, so is idleness to the soul, taking away its strength and power of resistance.
Plain. — Idleness takes away from the soul its strength and power of resistance.
1979, Daniel Breazeale (translator), Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense [1873, Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn], in Philosophy and Truth, page 84, quoted in 1998, Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology, page 103,
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seems to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.
To torture the metaphor, though, they’re sitting at a table outside the Nazi bar; their friends are there, they’re having a good time, maybe they hear a slur emanate from the window from time to time.
gloss: The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: desktop metaphor, wastebasket metaphor
gloss: To use a metaphor.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To describe by means of a metaphor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: analogy
idiom
metonymy
metonym
simile
skeuomorphism
allegory
Derived words: conceptual metaphor
dead metaphor
extended metaphor
malaphor
metaphoreme
metaphoric
metaphorical
metaphorical extension
metaphorically
metaphorician
metaphoricity
metaphorics
metaphorism
metaphorist
metaphorization
metaphorize
metaphorology
mixed metaphor
stale metaphor
supermetaphor
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: metafoor
lang: Albanian
word: metaforë
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتِعَارَة
roman: istiʕāra
lang: Armenian
word: փոխաբերություն
roman: pʻoxaberutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: մետաֆոր
roman: metafor
lang: Azerbaijani
word: istiarə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: məcaz
lang: Azerbaijani
word: metafora
lang: Belarusian
word: мета́фара
roman: mjetáfara
lang: Bulgarian
word: мета́фора
roman: metáfora
lang: Burmese
word: ရူပကအလင်္ကာ
roman: rupa.ka.a.langka
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 比喻
roman: bei² jyu⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 比喻
roman: bǐyù
lang: Czech
word: metafora
lang: Danish
word: metafor
lang: Dutch
word: metafoor
lang: Dutch
word: beeldspraak
lang: Dutch
word: vergelijking
lang: Esperanto
word: metaforo
lang: Estonian
word: metafoor
lang: Finnish
word: metafora
lang: French
word: métaphore
lang: Galician
word: metáfora
lang: Georgian
word: მეტაფორა
roman: meṭapora
lang: German
word: Metapher
lang: Greek
word: μεταφορά
roman: metaforá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μεταφορά
roman: metaphorá
lang: Hebrew
word: מֶטָפוֹרָה
roman: metáfora
lang: Hindi
word: रूपक
roman: rūpak
lang: Hungarian
word: metafora
lang: Hungarian
word: hasonlóságon alapuló névátvitel
lang: Icelandic
word: myndlíking
lang: Icelandic
word: myndhverfing
lang: Indonesian
word: majas
lang: Indonesian
word: metafora
lang: Indonesian
word: kiasan
lang: Irish
word: meafar
lang: Italian
word: metafora
lang: Italian
word: tropo
lang: Italian
word: figura retorica
lang: Japanese
word: 比喩
roman: hiyu
lang: Japanese
word: メタファー
roman: metafā
lang: Japanese
word: 隠喩
roman: in'yu
lang: Japanese
word: 暗喩
roman: an'yu
lang: Kannada
word: ರೂಪಕ
roman: rūpaka
lang: Kazakh
word: метафора
roman: metafora
lang: Khmer
word: ធម្មារម្មណ៍
roman: thŏəmmiərŏəm
lang: Korean
word: 비유
roman: biyu
lang: Korean
word: 은유
roman: eunyu
lang: Korean
word: 암유
roman: amyu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: метафора
roman: metafora
lang: Lao
word: ຄໍາອຸປະມາ
roman: kham ʼu pa mā
lang: Lao
word: ຄຳອຸບປະມາ
roman: kham ʼup pa mā
lang: Latvian
word: metafora
lang: Lithuanian
word: metafora
lang: Macedonian
word: мета́фора
roman: metáfora
lang: Malay
word: metafora
lang: Māori
word: huahuatau
lang: Māori
word: kupu whakarite
lang: Mongolian
word: зүйрлэл
roman: züjrlel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: metafor
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: metafor
lang: Persian
word: استعاره
roman: este'âre
lang: Persian
word: مجاز
roman: majâz
lang: Polish
word: przenośnia
lang: Polish
word: metafora
lang: Portuguese
word: metáfora
lang: Romanian
word: metaforă
lang: Russian
word: мета́фора
roman: metáfora
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мета̀фора
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: metàfora
lang: Slovak
word: metafora
lang: Slovene
word: metafora
lang: Spanish
word: metáfora
lang: Swedish
word: metafor
lang: Tagalog
word: metapora
lang: Tajik
word: истиора
roman: istiora
lang: Tajik
word: маҷоз
roman: majoz
lang: Tatar
word: метафора
roman: metafora
lang: Thai
word: อุปลักษณ์
roman: ùp-bpà-lák
lang: Thai
word: อุปมา
roman: ùp-bpà-maa
lang: Thai
word: อุปไมย
roman: ùp-bpà-mai
lang: Turkish
word: metafor
lang: Turkish
word: istiare
lang: Turkish
word: mecaz
lang: Ukrainian
word: мета́фора
roman: metáfora
lang: Urdu
word: استعارہ
roman: isti'āra
lang: Uzbek
word: istiora
lang: Uzbek
word: metafora
lang: Uzbek
word: majoz
lang: Vietnamese
word: ẩn dụ
lang: Welsh
word: trosiad
lang: Yiddish
word: מעטאַפֿאָר
roman: metafor