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Re:Metaphors in Man Pages by centimeter on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:57PM (#23119364)
Calling a lot of these "metaphors" is really stretching it - many of them are just homonyms with some distant shared etymology that may or may not have been metaphorical like 500 years ago.
Re:Metaphors in Man Pages by smogcutter on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:46PM (#23120362)
Fwiw the word you’re looking for is synonym. Homonyms have the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Re:Metaphors in Man Pages by mrob on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:02PM (#23121541)
Homonyms is correct. "Dies" applied to a process means something completely different from "dies" applied to a person. They're two different words with the same pronunciation.