Metaphor - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: metaphorMetaphoric
Of or pertaining to metaphor comprising a metaphor not literal figurative tropical as a metaphorical expression a metaphorical sense...
dynamite charge
dynamite charge [probably from the notion of exploding the metaphorical blockage impeding a decision by a deadlocked jury] : allen charge ...
blindside
to attack a person from his blind side metaphorically to give a person an unpleasant suprise...
Breasted
Having a breast used in composition with qualifying words in either a literal or a metaphorical sense as a single breasted coat...
buffeted
struck repeatedly used especially of impact from winds and sometimes metaphorically as buffeted by criticism...
deflate
To reduce from an inflated condition used literally and metaphorically as to deflate a tire to deflate expectations...
Dog days
A period of from four to six weeks in the summer variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September canicular days so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star Sirius with the sun Popularly the sultry close part of the summer metaphorically a period of inactivity...
Doubtful
Not settled in opinion undetermined wavering hesitating in belief also used metaphorically of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind as we are doubtful of a fact or of the propriety of a measure...
Embellish
To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments to decorate to adorn as to embellish a book with pictures a garden with shrubs and flowers a narrative with striking anecdotes or style with metaphors...
Ether
A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity once supposed to pervade all space the interior of solid bodies not excepted and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat hence often called luminiferous ether It is no longer believed that such a medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic waves the modern use of the term is mostly a figurative term for empty space or for literary effect and not intended to imply the actual existence of a physical medium However modern cosmological theories based on quantum field theory do not rule out the possibility that the inherent energy of the vacuum is greater than zero in which case the concept of an ether pervading the vacuum may have more than metaphoric meaning...
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