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单词 merism
释义

merism

English

Examples (polar extremes)

heaven and earth (the universe)
high and low (everywhere)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μερισμός (merismós).

Examples (list of parts)

lock, stock, and barrel (the whole gun)
signed, sealed, and delivered (the whole process of communicating)

Noun

merism (countable and uncountable, plural merisms)

  1. (literature, rhetoric) A reference to something by its polar extremes, as in "we searched high and low".
  2. (literature, rhetoric) A reference to something by a list of its parts.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Simmer, mimers, simmer
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