Using the " lock and key " metaphor, the antigen itself can be seen as a string of keys-any epitope being a " key "-each of which can match a different lock.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

Some virtual communities explicitly refer to the concept of cyberspace, for example Linden Lab calling their customers " Residents " of Second Life, while all such communities can be positioned " in cyberspace " for explanatory and comparative purposes ( as did Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown, followed by many journalists ), integrating the metaphor into a wider cyber-culture.

It has been suggested that this position can be lucidly brought out through the metaphor of " direction of fit ": beliefs — the paradigmatic products of reason — are propositional attitudes that aim to have their content fit the world ; conversely, desires — or what Hume calls passions, or sentiments — are states that aim to fit the world to their contents.

" He concludes, " I think the closest you can come to a homosexual metaphor in his films is to identify that certain sort of camp humor.

This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: " If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ...

A common definition of a metaphor can be described as a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in another important way.

The authors call this concept a ‘ conduit metaphor .’ By this they meant that a speaker can put ideas or objects into words or containers, and then send them along a channel, or conduit, to a listener who takes that idea or object out of the container and makes meaning of it.

Viewed also as an aspect of speech, metaphor can serve as a device for persuading the listener or reader of the speaker or writer's argument or thesis, the so-called rhetorical metaphor.

Poetic diction can include rhetorical devices such as simile and metaphor, as well as tones of voice, such as irony.

Schopenhauer sees reason as weak and insignificant compared to Will ; in one metaphor, Schopenhauer compares the human intellect to a lame man who can see, but who rides on the shoulder of the blind giant of Will.

** This can be done through metaphor, amplification, storytelling, or presenting the topic in a way that evokes strong emotions in the audience.

Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures.

The lyrics, which speak of " castles burning ", can be seen as a metaphor for Lester's view of Angela —" the rosy, fantasy-driven exterior of the ' American Beauty — as it burns away to reveal " the timid, small-breasted girl who, like his wife, has willfully developed a false public self ".

In summary, the rhetoric of The Selfish Gene exactly reverses the real situation: through metaphor genes are endowed with properties only sentient beings can posses, such as selfishness, while sentient beings are stripped of these properties and called machines ( robots ).

Following Schenck v. United States, " clear and present danger " became both a public metaphor for First Amendment speech and a standard test in cases before the Court where a United States law limits a citizen's First Amendment rights ; the law is deemed to be constitutional if it can be shown that the language it prohibits poses a " clear and present danger ".

Negative tendencies are not known as sins in Tenrikyo, but rather " dust ," as a metaphor, that can be swept away from the mind through hinokishin and ritual.

The meaning of spado in late antiquity can be interpreted as a metaphor for celibacy, however Tertullian's specifically refers to St. Paul as being castrated.

It can also be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or personification.

: With few exceptions Lubitsch's movies take place neither in Europe nor America but in Lubitschland, a place of metaphor, benign grace, rueful wisdom ... What came to preoccupy this anomalous artist was the comedy of manners and the society in which it transpired, a world of delicate sangfroid, where a breach of sexual or social propriety and the appropriate response are ritualized, but in unexpected ways, where the basest things are discussed in elegant whispers ; of the rapier, never the broadsword ... To the unsophisticated eye, Lubitsch's work can appear dated, simply because his characters belong to a world of formal sexual protocol.

Socrates remarks that this allegory can be taken with what was said before, namely the metaphor of the Sun, and the divided line.

From the correspondence between Landa's description of the New Year rituals and the depiction of these rituals in the Dresden Codex, it can be inferred that in 16th-century Yucatán, god K was called Bolon Dzacab ' Innumerable ( bolon ' nine, innumerable ') maternal generations ', perhaps a metaphor for fertility.

An example is his 1956 feature A Man Escaped, where a seemingly simple plot of a prisoner of war's escape can be read as a metaphor for the mysterious process of salvation.

But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

Hosea is believed to be the first prophet to use marriage as a metaphor of the covenant between God and Israel, and he influenced latter prophets such as Jeremiah.

" Seashells ", or conchae in Latin, may be a metaphor for something else such as female genitalia ( perhaps the troops visited brothels ) or boats ( perhaps they captured several small British boats ).

When the cause of a disease is poorly understood, societies tend to mythologize the disease or use it as a metaphor or symbol of whatever that culture considers to be evil.

The term " the Goddess " may also be understood to include a multiplicity of ways to view deity personified as female, or as a metaphor, or as a process.

The organic metaphor is thus very appropriate: biological organisms seem to have emergent properties which cannot be found anywhere in their individual parts.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

Part of the war motif could be a metaphor for the poet in a competitive struggle with the reader in order to push his own vision and ideas upon his audience.

Professional divers use such a calculation only as a rough guide to give new divers a metaphor, comparing a situation they may be more familiar with.

Aristotle wrote in the Poetics that " the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

The new linguistic turn, through the rise of semiotics as well as of structural linguistics, brought to the fore a new interest in figures of speech as signs, the metaphor in particular ( in the works of Roman Jakobson, Michel Charles, Gérard Genette ) while famed Structuralist Roland Barthes, a classicist by training, perceived how some basic elements of rhetoric could be of use in the study of narratives, fashion and ideology.

" Along that same thought, Arthur Koestler stated, " it is the synergistic effects produced by wholes that are the very cause of the evolution of complexity in nature " and used the metaphor of Janus ( a symbol of the unity underlying complements like open / shut, peace / war ) to illustrate how the two perspectives ( strong or holistic vs. weak or reductionistic ) should be treated as perspectives, not exclusives, and should work together to address the issues of emergence.

Another example might be the saying shit rolls downhill, a metaphor suggesting that trouble for a manager may be transferred to the subordinates.

Skilful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunting to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor, as in treasure hunting, " bargain hunting ", and even " hunting down corruption and waste ".

The poem also asserts that Bion was poisoned, which may or may not be a poetic metaphor.