metaphorically in English

adverb

['metə'fɔrɪklɪ ,-'fɑ- /-'fɒ-]

in a metaphorical manner, comparatively; allegorically

Use "metaphorically" in a sentence

1. She expressed herself metaphorically.

2. You're speaking metaphorically, I hope.

3. Metaphorically speaking, I hasten to add.

4. Acephalous, headless, whether literally or metaphorically, leaderless.

5. Metaphorically it implied a sort of admirable energy.

6. She was, literally and metaphorically, in perfect shape.

7. 17 She was, literally and metaphorically, in perfect shape.

8. Defects of conduct are also metaphorically called Blemishes (Deut

9. Allegorically: in an allegorical manner, figuratively, metaphorically: Translations: 1 – 1 / 1

10. But now businesses are being urged to keep metaphorically clean, too.

11. Synonyms for Allegorically include emblematically, figuratively, parabolically, symbolically, imagistically, metaphorically, representatively, fictionally

12. We use words like " grasp " metaphorically to also think about understanding things.

13. English is a synthetic language whose words may be metaphorically nominalized by adding suffixes.

14. Struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically; as, Buffeted by criticism.

15. Baden-Powell wrote that a Scout should paddle his own canoe, metaphorically speaking.

16. What is terrifying is the risk of humiliation, of metaphorically falling flat on one's face.

17. Charles and Clarissa made thankful noises, drank a little champagne, and metaphorically wiped their faces.

18. Metaphorically each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people.

19. The word "information" is commonly used so metaphorically or so abstractly that the meaning is unclear.

20. Metaphorically speaking, you could see straight through him to the other side of the room.

21. Hold this bowl for a moment , please; also metaphorically: A crazy idea took hold of him.

22. The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.

23. It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

24. And secondly, "Coarse" can also be used metaphorically, as a synonym for impolite

25. Not united metaphorically, or even just in partnership, but on the most fundamental physical levels.

26. This is accomplished by metaphorically fitting the discourse of astrophysics on to that of psychology.

27. In the supper room Auguste would be running around like a scalded cat, metaphorically if not literally.

28. From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.

29. After data collection and analysis, it is found that happiness is also conceptualized metaphorically and metonymically in Chinese.

30. Lakoff and several others in his field have demonstrated, how-ever, that nearly all conceptual and abstract thought is structured metaphorically.

31. As these stories Abut one another, metaphorically touching the reader's own, they become altered, subsequently transforming in tone, texture, reality.

32. But Carrick has now gained an age where young lads metaphorically doff their caps and older spectators offer grudging respect.

33. He was just Margaret's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand.

34. Metaphorically, we can exchange the toy we so ill-advisedly purchased in the first place and receive again the hope of eternity.

35. The other extreme took "law" completely metaphorically, picking out some standard or norm perceivable in natural phenomena which governs behavior through entirely impersonal means.

36. Canasta in Spanish means "shopping basket" - which metaphorically refers to the object of the game, which is to collect cards of the same rank.

37. The term is in reference to hot girls as "dimes," meaning that when they move around, they metaphorically make the sound "Clink, Clink" like coins.

38. At some point during warmups before the Raiders’ final game in Oakland, a 20-16 loss to the Jacksonville Jags that ended with the Colisuem metaphorically Asmolder, a camera crew found Mark Davis

39. Elle’s gritty shrill is apt and uplifting, the theme is often invitingly saucy, Awakeningly tangible, sometimes metaphorically current affairs, but it hardly wanes in energy, and if it does you know it’s building to something

40. Fritz, a young Tongan man grappling with his wrestling superstar father Baron To'a's legacy, both metaphorically and literally following in his deceased father's footsteps by fighting for the return of his dad's stolen championship belt.

41. In fact, some Crookedness is actually good, because it is created by God (Ecclesiastes 7:13)! But in general, sin and Crookedness overlap in many ways because, when one person is wrenching something from another, whether physically or metaphorically, sin is almost always involved

42. In fact, some Crookedness is actually good, because it is created by God (Ecclesiastes 7:13)! But in general, sin and Crookedness overlap in many ways because, when one person is wrenching something from another, whether physically or metaphorically, sin is almost always involved

43. "Bewitching" is an "idiom" (look it up) that basically means putting someone under a spell (not necessarily literally but more metaphorically) like as if to entrance them or seduce them and catch their attention to listen to what you say.

44. ‘That edge was to be held in place by pieces of wood pressed firmly against the outside of the central gutter where it Abutted the existing felt roof.’ ‘As these stories abut one another, metaphorically touching the reader's own, they become altered, subsequently transforming in tone, texture, reality.’

45. In nature, Crevices exist mostly in rocks and cliffs, but writers sometimes use the word for similar openings found in other materials, as in "crumbs in the Crevices of the cushion." The word also is used metaphorically, as in "the cracks and Crevices …

46. ‘That edge was to be held in place by pieces of wood pressed firmly against the outside of the central gutter where it Abutted the existing felt roof.’ ‘As these stories abut one another, metaphorically touching the reader's own, they become altered, subsequently transforming in tone, texture, reality.’

47. μόνη, μόνης, ἡ (μένω) (from Herodotus down), a staying, Abiding, dwelling, abode: John 14:2; μόνην ποιεῖν (L T Tr WH ποιεῖσθαι, as in Thucydides 1, 131; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 7; 13, 2, 1), to make an (one's) abode, παρά τίνι metaphorically, of God and Christ by their power and spirit exerting

48. With Geisteswissenschaften , A_dontigny approches directly or metaphorically an artist (Koons, Turner), a movement (American and French abstractionism), an author (Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Frege) or even a concept (such as the impossible to translate “Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein”) and produces a disc which is in parallel to ‘traditional’ electroacoustics and (industrial, punk and techno sub-cultures) electronica.

49. The outcome of this line of reasoning is that by mapping ``Axioms'' and ``propositions'' (things that can be considered true or false according to the Axioms and logical deriviations therefrom) into a space of integers and applying the well-known logic of integer systems to them, the sanctity of axiomatic systems themselves was metaphorically

50. So "his Burthen sang out" literally means "the chorus of his song was heard", and metaphorically it means that he is meditating happily on his situation as if he were singing a song, and this is the chorus, the refrain, of that song: the thing that sums up his happiness.