"extension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- (Fair shake, an 1830 Americanism, may be a metaphoric extension of the even hand.)
- By metaphoric extension, to spoon-feed means "to explain or persuade in small, understandable portions; to make easy to swallow and digest information."
- I asked the reporter, who continues to cover business in Washington for the newly invigorated Monitor, how he came up with the historic metaphoric extension.
- In American usage, another verb was added, and the name of the game, though not its metaphoric extension, is hide-'n'-go-seek.
- In one sense, the word has drawn on physical quickness and, by metaphoric extension, has come to mean mentally "nimble, adroit, skillful."
- The verb, still associated with the pits and pockmarks left by bombs, then gained its metaphoric extension.
- By metaphoric extension, a gambit can range from an enticing opening in conversation to a tactic in gaining advantage in business.
- From this we get a metaphoric extension: to ping a person, you send an e-mail message to see if your friend is alive and online.
- In Pentagonese, the word has gained a new metaphoric extension.
- The metaphoric extension - to the meaning of "accusing, often unfairly" - is tougher to find.
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