Metonymy

[Sarah]

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it;as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; weread Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is,warm affections.

[Sarah]

(Gr. metonymia changing

[Tanya Shivari]

[Linear] [timeline] in which the meanings of whole words are [synthetic] (additive) in the future; and convergent (conflationary) in the past.
In contrast the phonemes (phonetic parts) of words are synthetic (additive) in the past; and convergent in the future.

[Jessica]

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the turf for horse racing.

[Julian]

the act of referring to something using a word that describes one of its qualities or features