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  • ==Metaphor== ...le of public health officials handling an infectious disease). The medical metaphor extended beyond the immediate aims of the Truman Doctrine in that the image
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  • ===Which metaphor: tree, a net, cobweb, or ring?=== ...cribe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use [the] metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT amon
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  • ...ada. Theoret is a [[political scientist]], and his book uses poutine as a metaphor to discuss Quebec's role in Canada.
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  • Like some journal articles, it uses a metaphor, whereas we want our encyclopedia article titles to be literal, straightfor ...t that is a question I would leave to the biologists. For all I know, the metaphor is obviously apt and innocuous.
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  • ...kept learning. Guadalcanal was a shoestring seesaw, to coin a questionable metaphor. Tarawa was full of bloody surprises, but Allied [[amphibious warfare]] in
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  • <font color="darkblue">''The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.''< ...he linguistic expression. Certainly, Juliet is not the sun. Shakespeare's metaphor, "And Juliet is the sun", invites the listener to conceive Juliet not liter
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  • ...le suppose this letter was written by Peter from Rome, and so Babylon is a metaphor for Rome.
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  • ...lore; rather, it is derived from "trolling", a method of fishing, and is a metaphor for attempting to "catch" unsuspecting readers.<ref> The on-line hacker Jar
    4 KB (557 words) - 08:07, 27 June 2012
  • ...ce. The re-creation of stories is often non-naturalistic; actors often use metaphor, narration, chorus, genre, movement and song.
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  • The term ''Trojan horse'' became a common metaphor, and has passed into [[computer]] terminology to describe [[malware]] which
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  • Using that metaphor, many theoretical biologists could qualify as magicians.
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  • In the 'building metaphor' used by Descartes, our opinions and thoughts are the ground upon which ou *[http://www.articlemyriad.com/77.htm Article on the building metaphor in ''Discourse on the Method'']
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  • “Understanding the Internet: Model, Metaphor, and Analogy.” In Library Trends 50 (Summer 2001), ed. T. G. McFadden: 8
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  • ...ain bases of online lexical access to discourse processing, from memory to metaphor. This type of mix is typical of our field today: to be a player, one must h
    4 KB (561 words) - 18:15, 5 December 2011
  • ...no more meaningful than silence). It's not at all clear to me how far the metaphor of entropy can really be pushed, but in physics/chemistry, I think of entro
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  • * Anderson, Karrin Vasby. "Hillary Rodham Clinton as 'Madonna': The Role of Metaphor and Oxymoron in Image Restoration". ''Women's Studies in Communication'',
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  • ...seem to be as compelling a human phenomenon as ever—both as ritual and as metaphor. == Pilgrimage as metaphor ==
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  • ...<ref>Vainikka & Young-Scholten (1994; 1996; 1998).</ref> where 'tree' is a metaphor of syntax for the branching structure showing how words of a [[phrase]] or
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  • ...obsolete. The ''idea'' was OK, but Wikipedia's great failure was how, in a metaphor, they weren't able to prevent an uncontrolled and perhaps uncontrollable ma
    5 KB (761 words) - 04:48, 22 November 2023
  • ...considered a "possession by demons", "vital force" will likely end up as a metaphor for the net chemical and physiological responses that we call "life" and "e
    5 KB (837 words) - 22:08, 21 November 2008
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