Both the original, literal, and the derived figurative sense were used in Latin, but the figurative is older in English.

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

A good metaphor might embody the idea of an inclusive economy.

The terrorists hit multiple targets in Mumbai, both literally and figuratively.

But another step in metaphor building is needed to encapsulate the idea of economic inclusion.

The marriage analogy has become a rather over used metaphor for Europe s efforts to integrate.

If we take this metaphor at face value, there is a surprising consequence.

But in many other countries, the water is already flooding over the dikes, both literally and figuratively.

And one of the problems of knowing a word like synecdochically is that you really want an excuse to say synecdochically.

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

The symbols do not simply represent but participate in the meaning and, in combination with evocative phrases, are designed to provoke creative thinking.

Enoch Sontonga died in 1905 in relative anonymity but his masterpiece lives on in the heart of a whole continent centuries later.

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.

There is no inherent meaning in information.

The precise meaning depends upon the context.

What is gender mainstreaming?

That sense is covered in Mexican legislation.

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

Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning

It retains this primary meaning in American English.

In the flat world of globalization to borrow Thomas Friedman s powerful metaphor it seems that Russia no longer has a place.

Connotation of a name, if it has one, can be taken to be its meaning in Mill.

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

In that sense, if in no other, all citizens of China hang together.

In that sense, Bush s realism set limits to his cosmopolitanism.

In that sense, the situation is similar as in other forms of ownership.

They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food, and gold bars.

That is the meaning behind today's vote.

In that sense, population is at the core of development.

Bint Battuta in Bahrain debates the true meaning of blogging in this post.

There is also, in any sector, the issue of what the data really mean.

We believe that the true meaning of the Decade for Peace is to be found in the practice of these values.

We recall the metaphor used by a well known North American writer who spoke of the Dracula effect , meaning that this kind of agreement can take place only in darkness.

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.

Now, I'm going to move now from this kind of the sublime in the traditional sense of the word, that is to say, awe inspiring, terrifying to the somewhat more mundane.

It is this sense that gave rise to the phrase, To a moral certainty however, this sense is now seldom used outside of charges to juries.

In this sense, Zuma represents yesterday s South Africa.

Human rights of migrants

(a) Leaves the meaning ambiguous or obscure or

(a) Leaves the meaning ambiguous or obscure or

In this sense, only about a quarter of the world s people are presently economically secure.

What would our sleeping patterns be in the sort of ideal sense?

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.