• ⦿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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
wn:example
⦿to use ‘hand’ for ‘worker’ or ‘ten sails’ for ‘ten ships’ or ‘steel’ for ‘sword’ is to use a synecdochic figure of speech
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:synecdochic
  2. enl:synecdochical
wn:interlingual indexili:i7751

Other

dc:Subjectadj.all
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelsynecdochicsynecdochical