Meronym vs Metonymy - What's the difference?
meronym | metonymy |
(semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
* 1998 , George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database , MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-06197-X, page 38,
The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
(countable) A metonym.
{{examples-right, caption=metonymy , examples=*The White House released its official report today. — "The White House" for "The presidential administration"
* The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
* A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
* Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}}
As nouns the difference between meronym and metonymy
is that meronym is (semantics) a term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else while metonymy is the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.meronym
English
Noun
(Meronymy) (en noun)- "Wheels" is a meronym of the word "automobile".
- If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile''} or {''human_body''}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms''', but many of those '''meronyms''' will also be ' meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.
Antonyms
* holonymDerived terms
* * *Holonyms
* *See also
* ----metonymy
English
(wikipedia metonymy)Noun
* The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
* A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
* Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}}