Now maybe we want to treat it as metaphorical.

Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

The explosion of derivative instruments has demanded such an effort at understanding that metaphorical language is needed.

Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

People who have no light, whether it's physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exams, and we can never know what they know.

Like oxygen being sucked out of our metaphorical airplane in midflight, deleveraging destabilizes societies and undermines the traditional effectiveness of official policies.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh.

We use them metaphorically the DNA of a company, the metabolism of a city, and so on is that just bullshit, metaphorical bullshit, or is there serious substance to it?

And if you'll allow me to ascend to metaphorical heights, I will remind you that neural activity is the physical basis or so neuroscientists think of thoughts, feelings and perceptions.

AFP reported that Swiss defense minister Guy Parmelin sees the law s approval as a metaphorical leaving the basement and coming up to the ground floor of international security service standards

Well, think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common, the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.

When atheists like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein use the word God, they use it of course as a metaphorical shorthand for that deep, mysterious part of physics which we don't yet understand.

Now, if you assume that this greater cross wiring and concepts are also in different parts of the brain, then it's going to create a greater propensity towards metaphorical thinking and creativity in people with synesthesia.

In the latter, human experiences are described in terms of an outsized metaphor (a kind of metaphorical hyperbole), like the stock comparison of eyes to the sun, which Shakespeare makes light of in his sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.

For example, this construction, the dative, is used not only to transfer things, but also for the metaphorical transfer of ideas, as when we say, She told a story to me or told me a story, Max taught Spanish to the students or taught the students Spanish.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh. Attention will focus on turning the green shoots of recovery into sustainable green growth, leading to green economies consistent with the goal of protecting the world s climate.