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 me·ton·y·my /məˈtɑnəmi/
 轉喻

 Me·ton·y·my n.  Rhet. A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections; a city dweller has no wheels, that is, no automobile.
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 metonymy
      n : substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the
          name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')