metaphor

[US]/ˈmetəfə(r)/
[UK]/ˈmetəfər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. mtindo wa lugha ambao kipengele au sentensi kinaonesha kwa mbinu ya kuzidisha kwa maelezo ya mbinu ya kuzidisha.
Word Forms
Pluralmetaphors

Phrases & Collocations

extended metaphor

metaphor ya kusambaza

mixed metaphor

metaphor ya kushambua

dead metaphor

metaphor ya kufa

metaphorical language

lugha ya metaphor

Example Sentences

These two metaphors are mismached.

Mipangi yote mbili haya yote hupitisha.

In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

Katika ushairi, ua la rose mara nyingi ni metafori kwa upendo.

Children at a young age produce more enactive metaphors and as they grow older more perceptual metaphors are produced.

Wanaume kwa umri mrefu hupangia mipangi ya enactive zaidi na wakati wao wanaumia zaidi, mipangi ya kuchangia zinapangwa zaidi.

The translation of metaphors, personification and Litotes etc.

Tafsiri ya metafora, mtu binafsi na Litotes n.k.

it is moot whether this phrase should be treated as metaphor or not.

Hakuna maeleko kama kipango hiki kinapaswa kuchukuliwa kama mipango au sio.

Check for similes, metaphors, metonymy and synecdoche.

Tafuta kwa mifano, mipangi, metonymy na synecdoche.

'I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,' said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors.

''Nimepita kwenye pango ya umapendeke,' alisema Mark, ambaye alipenda mipangi ya teateri.

the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.

mabaki ya pesa yaliyopotea na shirika ilikuwa ya kuchangia kwa mipango kwa sektari ambaye ilikuwa inapangwa.

Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.

Kwa kutumia mipango, tunasema kuwa kompyuta zinapangia mafundisho na hifadhi.

In the sermon the preacher hereby notifies the congregation that it is dead and buried –an ex-people.This is not a metaphor, this is our reality coram Deo.

Katika mahubiri, mhubiri anaarifu mkusanyiko kuwa amefariki na zima – watu wa zamani. Hii si lugha, hii ndio ukweli wetu coram Deo.

The metaphor representing the Yin and Yang or the first male and female connection - the right and left eyes of Horus is the Vesica Pisces becoming the symbol for the First Light.

Mipango ya kuchangia Yin na Yang au maeleko ya kwanza ya mume na mwanamke - mizizi ya kucheza na kushoto ya Horus ni Vesica Pisces inakwepa maeleko ya Mipango ya Mwanzo.

Another cybernetician, Gerald Weinberg, supplies a fine metaphor for requisite complexity in his book On the Design of Stable Systems.

Mtaalamu mwingine wa cybernetics, Gerald Weinberg, hutoa mfano mzuri wa jambo la lazima la kiuchaguzi katika kitabu chake On the Design of Stable Systems.

that this bold metaphor is admirable, and the natural history of the stage has no occasion on a day of allegory and royal epithalamium to take exception at a dolphin who is son to a lion.

kwamba taswira hii ya ujasiri inathaminiwa, na historia ya asili ya jukwaa hawezi kuona uwezekano katika siku ya mufano na epithalamium ya kifalme kuchukua ukataba kwa dauphin ambaye ni mwana wa simba.

Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.

Mipango yalitishwa na tunapaswa, kwa kutumia metaphor mchovu, kuzama jangwa yetu kwa uchovu wa pamoja yetu.

a name that has always eluded me; a metaphor that eluded them.See Synonyms at escape

jina ambao hupoteza nia yangu kila wakati; mmetaphor ambao hupoteza wao. Tazama Mshororo kwenye kusogea

Of the kinds of words we have enumerated it may be observed that compounds are most in place in the dithyramb, strange words in heroic, and metaphors in iambic poetry.

Kwa maelezo ya mifumo ya maelezo yaliyotajwa, inaweza kujua kwamba mifumo ya maelezo yana mifumo ya maelezo zaidi ya maelezo ya mifumo ya maelezo, mifumo ya maelezo ya mifumo ya maelezo na mifumo ya maelezo ya mifumo ya maelezo.

Edward Hirsch successfully and skillfully uses many language devices in his love poem“REGRET”including figurative languages, sppech styles, enjambment, metaphors, images, oxymoron, and chiasmus.

Edward Hirsch anatumia mengine ya mbinu ya lugha kwa mafupi na mafupi katika mshairi wa mwingiliano wake “REGRET”, inayowakabili mbinu ya kisiasia, mbinu ya kusahihisha, enjambment, mbinu ya maelezo, picha, oxymoron, na chiasmus.

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