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A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?"

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  1. n. A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?"
  2. n. (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent
  3. A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me" Aytoun.
  4. A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, orpronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "Whatis life to such as me" Aytoun.
  5. n. (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent