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Here's something I Googled up. News to me: synecdoche covers the whole lot.
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
And all this time I thought it was a town in upstate NY.
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Verlangen 07/14/2002 12:14 AM 
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wwh 07/14/2002 1:00 AM 
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Verlangen 07/14/2002 1:17 AM 
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wwh 07/14/2002 1:26 AM 
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wwh 07/14/2002 1:40 AM 
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slithy toves 07/14/2002 2:18 AM 
Gk. "to take with something else"
belligerentyouth 07/14/2002 11:12 AM 
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of troy 07/14/2002 1:18 PM 
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Verlangen 07/14/2002 1:49 PM 
Re:synecdoche and metonymy
wwh 07/14/2002 2:45 PM 
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Verlangen 07/14/2002 7:03 PM 
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