a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing;
"Washington is a metonym for the United States government" "plastic is a metonym for credit card"
例句
Nominalization occurs not only at word level, but also at morpheme level, and its cognitive mechanism is metonym. 名物化不仅发生在词层面，也发生在语素层面，其认知机制为转喻。
Following analysis of the cognitive concept and motivation of metonymies, this paper explores the guiding principles and techniques in metonym translation. 本文从转喻的认知概念和动因出发，探讨转喻翻译的指导原则和方法。
In meaning aspect, metonym mechanism not only transfers morpheme meaning, but also expands new sense category by transfering meaning, and transforms whole lexical semantic system as well. 在意义方面，转喻机制不仅使语素本身发生语义转化，而且通过语义转指发展新的语义类范畴，改造整个词汇语义系统。
