单词	metonym
释义	metonym /ˈmɛtənɪm / noun A word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated. For example, Washington is a metonym for the US government.In such cases, verisimilitude takes over motivation, because each word of that story will expatiate on or repeat the nuclear word that begets it, for each such word is also a metonym of that nucleus.... I would like to offer a variant definition and suggest that metonyms, like commuters, do not always make their connections. The metonym I am describing is more than a ‘reality effect’ but less than a link in a dangerously mobile semiotic chain; no frightening or anxiety-provoking associations need be made to it. Origin Mid 19th century: back-formation from metonymy.
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