Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index. |
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The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers. |
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Hoping to bring democracy to the workplace, Propst had instead ushered in the cubicle, a billion-dollar industry and a metonym for drudgery. |
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Beijing, the metonym, will need to help tidy up the fiscal mess exemplified by Beijing, the place. |
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Today, its immediacy dulled by time and fame, it functions mainly as a visual metonym for the Great Depression. |
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In the final analysis, arrangement and classifying comprise a metonym for any form of intellectual activity. |
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Viewers should have been warned by the pilot, which was practically a metonym for the typical Murphy series. |
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The Panama hat came to signify secular Turkish citizenship and functions as a metonym for the transformation of the Oriental Ottoman to the Western Turk. |
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Thus a metonym is a type of synonym, and the word metonym is a hyponym of the word synonym. |
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In 1913, a square century ago, Johnston designed the Underground's red, white and blue roundel, a symbol now so familiar that it has become a metonym for London. |
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Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyrood. |
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He became known as Peeping Tom thus originating a new idiom, or metonym, in English. |
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