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Calling a lot of these "metaphors" is really stretching it - many of them are just homonyms with some distant shared etymology that may or may not have been met
by centimeter 6y ago
Calling a lot of these "metaphors" is really stretching it - many of them are just homonyms with some distant shared etymology that may or may not have been metaphorical like 500 years ago.
- smogcutter 6y agoFwiw the word you’re looking for is synonym. Homonyms have the same pronunciation but different meanings.
- mrob 6y agoHomonyms is correct. "Dies" applied to a process means something completely different from "dies" applied to a person. They're two different words with the same pronunciation.