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Chapter 4Sense and Communication Metaphors
• Five Senses: Taste, Smell, Touch, Hearing, Sight– See also Chapter 5: Plant and Food
Metaphors
• Communication: Music, Voice, Writing
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Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approachwww.ablongman.com/nilsen
By Don L. F. Nilsen
And Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Visual Double Entendre
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Black | White Basic Metaphors
Black eye
Black hole in space
Black market
Black out
Black tie event
Blackball someone
Blackbird
Blackboard
Blackjack
Blackmail
Blacksmith
In the black (accounting)
White-collar crime
White elephant gift
The White House
White lie
White lightening (moonshine whiskey)
White out (blizzard)
White sale (linens)(Nilsen & Nilsen 76-77, 96, 99)
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Red | Yellow | BluePrimary-Color Metaphors
Caught red handed
In the red
Red alert
Red-blooded American
Red-eye flight
Red Cross
Red herring
Red-letter day
Redcap
Redcoat
Redhead
Redneck
Reds (Communists)
Redshirting an athlete
Rouge
Stanford Cardinal
Washington Redskins
Roll out the red carpet
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Jaundiced Fr “jaune” yellow
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Yellow fever
Yellow Pages
Yellowjacket
Black and blue
Blue chip stocks
Blue collar worker
Bluebird
Bluecoats (Union army)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Bluegrass state
Blueprint
Blues (New Orleans)
Out of the blue(Nilsen & Nilsen 76-77, 95, 97, 99)
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Green | BrownNatural Metaphors
Green card
Green produce (not ripe)
Green with envy
Greenbacks
Green grocer (sells vegetables)
Greenhouse
Greenhouse effect (atmospheric warming)
Greenlight (traffic)
Greenlight (go-ahead)
Greens (vegetables)
Greens fees (golf)
Brown (name)
Brownies (confection)
Brownies (magical elves)
Brown bag presentation
Brown Betty (apple cobbler)
Brown out
Brownstone brick
(Nilsen & Nilsen 76-77, 97-98)
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Grey | Orange | Pink | PurpleNon-Basic Colors
Gandolf the Grey
Gray winter days
Gray Panthers
Grey beard
Grey matter (brains)
Greyhound
The greying of
America
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Orange (fruit)
Orangeman Society (North of Ireland)
Pink Bollworm (eats cotton)
Pink-Collar workers (women)
Pinkeye
Pinkie finger
Pinko (Communist leanings)
Tickled pink
Purple Heart
Purple Passage (for writers)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
(Nilsen & Nilsen 97-98)
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Greek phone (sound)Latin sonus (sound)
Latin cantare (singing)Cacophonous
Euphonious
Microphone
Phonics
Phonograph
Phonology
Symphony
Telephone
Consonant
Resonate
Resounding
Sonata
Sonic boom
Sonnet
Sonogram (in medicine)
Sonorous
Sound idea
Ultrasound
Chant
Chanteys (what sailors sing as they work)
Cantor
Encanto Park
Enchantments
Incantations
(Nilsen & Nilsen 89)
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Latin tonus (tension)as with the vocal folds
Intonation
Monotone
Monotonous
Loony Tunes
Tone (color nuance)
Tone down the confrontation
Tone up the body
Tonette (musical instrument)
Tune (musical piece)
Tune into a radio station
Tune someone in or out
Tune up an instrument(Nilsen & Nilsen 90-91)
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Music | L opus (work) | Gk oide (song)
Bandwagon
Conducting research
Marching to a different drummer
Orchestrating
Magnus Opus
Cf. Chef d’oeuvre (masterpiece)
Cf. Hors d’oeuvre appetizer
Opera L opus (work job)
Opus
Melody
Ode
Parody Gk para (alongside) & oide (song)(Nilsen & Nilsen 91)
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Musical Instruments
Arpegio (played as if on a harp)
Brake drum
Drum stick
Drumming up business
Ear drum
Fiddle sticks
Fiddler crab
Flauta (food)
Fluted collar
Fluted column
Harp seal
Harping about something
Harpsichord
Horn (originally animal’s horn)
Horn of plenty
Horned owl
Hornet
Horny
Lyrical
Lyricist
Lyrics
Organ Pipe Cactus
Pied Piper
Piping(Nilsen & Nilsen 93-94)
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Theatre Words
1st & 2nd stage
Applaud L laud (praise acclaim)
Applause
Laudable
Magna Cum Laude
Summa Cum Laude
Cf: G laut (sound)
Cf: E loud
Offstage
Ovation L ovare (exult)
Stagecoach
Upstaging someone(Nilsen & Nilsen 89, 92)
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Communication Metaphors
Called on the carpet
Cat call
Chat room
Chatterbox
Communicable disease
A cry for help
A crying shame
Something unspeakable
Speakeasy (during prohibition)
Speaker of the House
Taking Communion
To talk (reveal secrets)
Teller’s cage
Walkie Talkie
Within shouting distance (neighbors)
(Nilsen & Nilsen 79-80)
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Etymologies
Obi-Wan Error: HAL IBM
SPAM (Spiced hAM)
USTL (Use the Source, Luke)
Vulcan Nerve Pinch(Nilsen & Nilsen 77-78)
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Latin Dicere (Speak)Latin Jocus (Joke)Latin Lexis (Word)
Dictaphone
Dictator
Dictatorial
Diction
Dictionary
Dictum
Jocund
Joke
The Joker
Juggler
Lexical
Lexicographer
Lexicon(Nilsen & Nilsen 82)
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Latin Loquere (Speak)Latin Plangere (Lament)
Latin Quere (Ask)
Circumlocution
Colloquial
Colloquium
Colloquy
Elocution
Eloquent
Grandiloquence
LoquaciousVentriloquist (Nilsen & Nilsen 84)
Complainant
Complaint
Plaintiff
Plaintive
Query
Quest
Question
Questionable
Inquest
Inquiry
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Latin Onyma (Name)
Acronym
Anonymous
Antonym
Aptronym
Caconym
Cryptonym
Eponym
Euphonym
Heteronym
Homonym
Metonymy
Name
Nickname
Nominal
Nomination
Patronym
Penname
Pseudonym
Stressonym
Synonym
(Nilsen & Nilsen 83)
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Latin Parabola (Comparison)
Parable
Parabola (in geometry)
Parlay a bet F “parler” (speak)
Parley (conference)
Parliament
Parliamentary procedure
Parlor
Parse (a sentence)
Parseltongue (in Harry Potter books)
(Nilsen & Nilsen 83)
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Vox: Latin for Voice
Avocation (hobby)
Equivocation
Invocation
Provoke
Revoked licence
To equivocate
To evoke
To invoke harsh punishment
Vocation
Vox populi
(Nilsen & Nilsen 81)
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Alphabet Shapes
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More Alphabet Shapes
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Germanic Spel (tale) |Latin Scribere (to write) |
Greek Graphein (writing or drawing)Casting a spell
Magic spell
Sit a spell (while)
Spell out (be specific)
Spelling bee
Spell-binding (story teller)
Conscription (army)
Describe
Inscribe
Manuscript
P.S.
Prescription
Scribe
Scribble
Scripted
Scripture
Scrivener
Subscribe
Autograph
Cartography (from René DesCartes)
Demographics
Graffiti
Graph
Graphemes
Graphite
Graphic
Graphologist
Monograph
Polygraph test
(Nilsen & Nilsen 87)
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Latin Signum (mark)Greek Stizein (tattoo)
Latin Rhetorica (oratory)
Assigned
Design
Designate
Ensign (Navy)
Insignia
Resignation
Sign (of things to come)
Signal
Signature
Signet ring
Significant
Signify
Stigma
Stigmata
Stigmatized
Rhetoric
Rhetorical (insignificant)
Rhetorical question
Rhetorician(Nilsen & Nilsen 87-88)
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!Signifying:Christian Fish
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!!Signifying:Christian Aquarium
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!!!Canadian Signifying: Jack and Jacques
discuss English vs. French
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Reference
Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source Based Approach. Boston, MA: Parson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004.
www.ablongman.com/nilsen