Category:Synecdoche

Syn*ec"do*che, n. Etym: [l. synecdoche, gr. (rhet.)

Defn: a figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the Whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, The smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, Cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature For a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain.