metaphorically

• “On the other hand, to say that a hurricane is a steam motor is not to use the term metaphorically, but literally: one is saying that the hurricane embodies the same engineering diagram as a steam motor: it uses a reservoir of heat and operates via differences of temperature circulated through a Carnot cycle.”

  Reflections on GardenWorld Politics Douglass Carmichael

• “Perhaps they mean to use the term metaphorically, but in the Nixon White House there was an actual list, compiled by Chuck Colson at the behest of John Dean.”

  Salon

• “The Greeks called the island Ichnussa, or footprint, because of its shape, but Sardinia's central location makes the term metaphorically appropriate as well.”

  Legacy in Stone

• “His discovery includes an utterance that metaphorically is somewhat connected to a scientific view of the beginnings:”

  The Huffington Post: Sena Jeter Naslund: Beginning Again With Adam & Eve

• “Much as I am in favor of a politician doing in reality what they usually do metaphorically, is this really news?”

  DeLay makes dancing debut

• “The people of Ayodhya (metaphorically translates to a place of no war) welcomed the trio by lighting rows (avali) of lamps (deepa), hence the name of the festival, Deepavali, or Diwali.”

  The Huffington Post: Anju Bhargava: Out of Many, One: Diwali Illuminates Unity

• “a man has used a term metaphorically, or predicated it of itself as though it were something different.”

  Topics

• “Labrousse wasn’t using the expression metaphorically.”

  Simon & Schuster: 206 BONES

• “Thomas Hardy's ashes are also interred at Westminster, save his heart and I don't mean that metaphorically, which is buried in Dorset.”

  The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner

• “There's been a breakthrough, and we do not use that word metaphorically, in the story of 33 Chilean miners who've been trapped underground since August 5th.”

  NPR: A Shaft Of Hope Opens For Trapped Miners

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