Synecdochical

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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

[Middle English synodoches, from Medieval Latin synodoche, alteration of Latin synecdoch, from Greek sunekdokh, from sunekdekhesthai, to take on a share of : sun-, syn- + ekdekhesthai, to understand (ek-, out of; see eghs in Indo-European roots + dekhesthai, to take; see dek- in Indo-European roots).]

synec·dochic (s

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Adj.

synecdochical - using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech"

synecdochic

figurative, nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"

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Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
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Almost ready for the happy ending, the reader is still waiting for the public avowal of Darcy's love and it happens, a few pages later, through the re-transformation of the synecdochical fragment into the entire body.

The passion translated: literary and cinematic rhetoric in Pride and ... by Grandi, Roberta / Literature-Film Quarterly

In this way Renucci would appear to negate the synecdochical dimension mentioned above and, at the same time, to preclude any possible interpretation beyond the purely geographical.

Alan of Lille and Dante: questions of influence by Casagrande, Gino; Kleinhenz, Christopher / Italica

Throughout much of the 20th century, DNA was often characterized as the primary component of cellular communication, creating a synecdochical relationship between the genome and all of molecular biology.

Bioethics and History & Philosophy of Science by Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science

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