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What does metaphor mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable and countable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.
  2. (countable, graphical user interface) The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
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As the metaphor implies, newer is not necessarily better, and the grandfather clock is still keeping good time.
That's got to be as poor a metaphor as I've ever seen, and if it's one of the book's quotable high points, the volume is in trouble.
She draws a metaphor for how this is contrary to her work with children and adolescents.
Whether he was hoping for a literal metaphor that expressed very clearly how he had lost his shirt, I cannot say.
Her claim that voice is a worn-out metaphor rests, in large part, on its associations with oral literacy traditions.
A group of fruit trees in this work becomes a hideous metaphor for a world out of joint.

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