The term " upstaging " has also since taken on the figurative meaning of an actor unscrupulously drawing the audience's attention away from another actor.
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Zamakhshari's goal was to catalog both the literal and figurative meanings of Arabic words, and he used examples from the Qur'an and hadith for both.
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However, the figurative meaning ( lexical representation ) of the idiom is accessed first since the word string is stored and processed as one entry.
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A more important reason for its nonacceptable acceptability is that the literal meaning of the term has been superseded by its figurative meaning, " outrageously untrue ."
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Some words are more complex and difficult to learn, such as homonyms, words that have multiple meanings and those with figurative meanings, like idioms, similes, and metaphors.
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But " axis " also has a figurative meaning : " the center of things " . talk ) 21 : 17, 4 November 2013 ( UTC)
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Dorothy Whitelock claimed that the poem is a literal description of the voyages with no figurative meaning, concluding that the poem is about a literal penitential exile.
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The difference is that an idiomatic phrase involves figurative language in its components, while in a proverbial phrase the figurative meaning is the extension of its literal meaning.
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Taken literally this is nonsense, but apparently it had the figurative meaning of " knowing that one knows ", as the modern English word " conscious " does.
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It's all those things and a few more ( " deranged " springs to mind ), but the word " visceral " has more than a figurative meaning.
