metonym in English

noun
1
a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated. For example, Washington is a metonym for the federal government of the US.
In such cases, verisimilitude takes over motivation, because each word of that story will expatiate on or repeat the nuclear word that begets it, for each such word is also a metonym of that nucleus.

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1. A metonym for the Catholic Church, particularly when attributing doctrine.

2. 'Downing Street' is used as a metonym for the Government of the United Kingdom.

3. Criminologists have been preoccupied with the gang as metonym, icon or index

4. The name is a metonym derived from the traditional building materials associated with physical buildings: bricks and mortar.

5. Nominalization occurs not only at word level, but also at morpheme level, and its cognitive mechanism is metonym.

6. Due to the general lack of international recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, some non-Israeli media outlets use Tel Aviv as a metonym for Israel.

7. Second, the term Bench is a metonym used to describe members of the judiciary collectively, or the judges of a particular court, such as the Queen's Bench or the Common Bench in England and Wales, or the federal Bench in the United States.

8. 1658-1707) into a metonym for the Muslim community, and vilifies the emperor in order to vilify the community almost in its entirety.Truschke demonstrates with superb precision that the political-theological fault lines in Aurangzeb's reign did not run along simple Muslim versus Hindu / Sikh binaries."