Here a trope is a figurative and metaphorical use of a word or a phrase.

But faulting the use of color words to extended or figurative uses is really stretching it.

They can sometimes be about a literal use of the word and a metaphor (figurative use).

We are more accustomed to the figurative use of disaster vocabulary.

This figurative use was evidently based on the idea that the Lord was the husband of the nation of Israel (see Jer.

This distinction, though not universally admitted by medical men, as to the literal meaning, of the words, certainly applies to them in their figurative use.

The computer synthesizer is a figurative use.

Since the word diamond is now used for the hardest gemstone, the increasingly archaic term "adamant" has a mostly poetic or figurative use.

Any departure from the literal use of words is the figurative use of language.

The figurative use of the phrase "Parthian shot" appeared later in The Times (1842):