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 synecdochic
      adj : using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole
            for the part; or the special for the general or the
            general for the special; or the material for the thing
            made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail'
            for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a
            synecdochic figure of speech" [syn: synecdochical]