Words similar to metaphoric

Example sentences for: metaphoric

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(This is not the place to enter the discussion between the dictionary splitters `definers who write a definition for almost every citation' and the combiners `definers who tend to write “basic” definitions and rely on the ability of users to divine metaphoric extensions for themselves.
However unfortunate purists might view that fact to be, at least if the entries are listed separately, at some graphic remove from the entry for chain , their physical distance would make their semantic, metaphoric distance more understandable.
But in a more metaphoric way they do rather underscore the huge, almost compulsive appeal of English in the world.
The canopy used as an elegant covering over a modern bed, then, is a metaphoric net to keep the lowly mosquito at a distance.
The term's proximate origin remains obscure--some analysts have suggested an association with the world of sport or finance, where activities are indeed governed by an actual daily cycle and where a metaphoric sense could easily have arisen out of the literal one.