According to one study, we utter about one metaphor for every ten to twenty-five words, or about six metaphors a minute. I think that is a gross (pardon the metaphor) underestimate. Take (there ...

This word, the very last of the story ... Whether this authentic mystical strain is necessarily radically at odds with the socio-political strain, as metaphor may be at odds with verisimilitude, is ...

The DNA revolution may be just too big to take in: beyond words, even 50 years on. Think of four chemical bases coupled exclusively to each other, adenine with thymine, guanine with cytosine, in a ...

Achieving a quantum leap, conceptually The term "bit" is a metaphor. The word suggests that during calculations, a computer can break up large values into tiny ones—bits of information—which ...

Often a simple metaphor communicates better than many words. Back when I taught middle school grades, the students often loved discovering metaphors in real life to analyze their meanings. One ...

What has been used on one side, is lost on the other side. There’s no going back.” *** Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not ...