Vocabulary Word
Word: metaphor
Definition: implied comparison; CF. simile
Definition: implied comparison; CF. simile
Sentences Containing 'metaphor'
The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very considerably, the annual produce of its land and labour.
For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect.
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