A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

" In the New Testament, a thorough concordance search shows that the second most frequent use of " head " ( kephalē ), after " the structure that connects to our neck and sits atop our bodies ," is the metaphorical sense of " source.

Here the equivocation is the metaphorical use of " jackass " to imply a stupid or obnoxious person instead of a male donkey.

Additionally, children have not mastered the patterns of metaphorical expression that are invoked in proverb use.

These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language.

Racial Mapping is the use of cartography to identify and situate racial groups using maps to highlight, perpetuate, and naturalize the differences of race through both literal and metaphorical means, mapmakers create a common knowledge by displaying specific data as representative the real world, and construct racial identity by framing, situating, and defining what race is.

Aside from its purely prosaic use to mean road, channel, path, doctrine, or similar, the word has acquired a variety of differing and often confusing metaphorical, philosophical and religious uses.

The Rastafari movement encompasses themes such as the spiritual use of cannabis and the rejection of western society, called Babylon ( from the metaphorical Babylon of the Christian New Testament ).

* Figure of Speech, the confusion between the metaphorical or figurative use of a word or phrase and the ordinary or literal use of a word or phrase.

One example of metaphorical use of the expression is the term " Evergreen content " used to describe perennial articles or guides about topics that do not change frequently.

In particular, conservatives were thought to better understand the metaphorical connection between the family, morality, and politics, and, especially around 1994, were able to get quite a number of votes through using persuasive metaphors while liberals tried to use logic and reason.

The metaphorical use of " cargo cult " was popularized by physicist Richard Feynman at a 1974 Caltech commencement speech, which later became a chapter in his book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman !, where he coined the phrase " cargo cult science " to describe science that had some of the trappings of real science ( such as publication in scientific journals ) but lacked a basis in honest experimentation.

The game was introduced in Germany during the Thirty Years War, and texts of that period provide substantial evidence of its vogue, like the metaphorical use of the word " Repique " in the 1634-8 political poem Allamodisch Picket Spiel (" Piquet Game à la mode "), which reflects the growing popularity of the game at that time.

The first major metaphorical use of the term in popular culture was in the 1947 novel Point of No Return by John P. Marquand.

Aside from providing guidance and suggestions for proper action in life, parables frequently use metaphorical language which allows people to more easily discuss difficult or complex ideas.

Chaff as a waste product from grain processing leads to a metaphorical use of the term, to refer to something seen as worthless.

The medical breakthrough was the subject of the 1940 film, " Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ," and prompted the metaphorical use of " magic bullet " as a powerful cure for a pressing societal problem.

The phrase " last chance saloon " also has common British metaphorical use, based upon this historical context.

The poem is noted for its creative use of kennings and other metaphorical devices, as well as its labyrinthine complexity.

Literary criticism has been almost more prepared than psychoanalysis to make at least metaphorical use of the term ' Destrudo '.

The serial expands on Austen's metaphorical use of landscapes, reinforcing beauty and authenticity.

" Professional wine critics use a certain " technical vocabulary " that are " metaphorical of prestige realms of traditional English gentlemanly horticulture.

They assert that, as he himself wrote repeatedly, his use of the terms “ Nabi ” and “ Rasool ” was metaphorical, when referring to himself.

William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

Some scholars take the term kenning broadly to include any noun-substitute consisting of two or more elements, including merely descriptive epithets ( such as Old Norse grand viðar “ bane of wood ” = “ fire ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36 )), while others would restrict it to metaphorical instances ( such as Old Norse sól húsanna “ sun of the houses ” = “ fire ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36 )), specifically those where “ he base-word identifies the referent with something which it is not, except in a specially conceived relation which the poet imagines between it and the sense of the limiting element '” ( Brodeur ( 1959 ) pp. 248 – 253 ).

WMCF ( p. 151 ) includes the following example of what the authors term " metaphorical ambiguity.

By metaphorical extension, the term is also used for the first test made after assembly or repairs to a system, to provide some assurance that the system under test will not catastrophically fail.

* Touchstone ( metaphor ) for metaphorical and literary uses of the term

According to Szasz, to understand the metaphorical nature of the term " disease " in psychiatry, one must first understand its literal meaning in the rest of medicine.

Complexity is a measure of an increasing number of permutations and it is also a metaphorical term that conveys the mental intractability or limits concerning unlimited algorithmic possibilities.

" Extropy is not a rigorously defined technical term in philosophy or science ; in a metaphorical sense, it simply expresses the opposite of entropy.

The term " orgiastic " does not generally connote group sex and is closer to the classical roots and this metaphorical usage.

The city's name comes from the word κολοφών, ' summit ', which is also the origin of the bibliographic term ' colophon ', in the metaphorical sense of a ' crowning touch ', as it was sited along a ridgeline.

The term ' ogre ' is often applied in a metaphorical sense to persons who exploit, brutalize, harass or bully others.

Today the term may be used very loosely for objects with no colour contrast, and other, metaphorical, terms have developed, such as cameo appearance.

Anacoluthon is sometimes ( wrongly ) confused with anacoloutha, a term that denotes metaphorical substitutions.

However, the term " craze " is also used to refer to minute cracks in pottery glaze, again suggesting the metaphorical connection of cracked pots with questionable mental health.

* Cap ( sport ), metaphorical term.

" However, as in " Underground Press ", the term developed as a metaphorical reference to a clandestine and subversive culture beneath the legitimate and official media.

However, particularly in management studies, the term often has been used in a metaphorical rather than in a qualitative or quantiative theoretical manner.

The name Palo Judio literally means " Jewish Palo ", but the term " Jewish " as used here does not refer to the Jewish religion ; rather it is metaphorical shorthand for " refusing to convert to Christianity ", that is, in the case of Palo, " purely Congo African.

The metaphorical " island " ( the term island is used to describe other Gulf Coast salt domes, such as Avery Island in Louisiana ) has often served to protect its residents from the effects of hurricanes ' storm surge.

Neurasthenia is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 to label a mechanical weakness of the actual nerves, rather than the more metaphorical " nerves " referred to by George Miller Beard later.