catachresis

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catachresis englannista suomeksi

  1. katakreesi

  1. Substantiivi

  2. sanan) väärä käyttö">(sanan) väärä käyttö

  3. katakreesi

catachresis englanniksi

  1. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.

  2. Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.

  3. A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.

  4. (RQ:Langley Rhetoric)