"refer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the context of mysticism, the phrase refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine.
- In contemporary culture, the term sometimes refers inexactly or metaphorically to women who are presumed to wish they were men.
- The "destruction of language" (line 15) metaphorically refers to the: a. end of a romance.
- Hence, the term may refer metaphorically to several things:
- Ezekiel 28 is thought by some to be referring metaphorically to Satan, rather than to the king of Babylon.
- Father can also refer metaphorically to a person who is considered the founder of a body of knowledge or of an institution.
- Spenser also metaphorically refers to Cape Cod as the Promised Land.
- It refers metaphorically to a human corpse as a "sheer hulk".
- Film historians refer to cannibalism both literally and metaphorically.
- On the one hand, this deer hunt may metaphorically refer to a hunt for human victims.
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