tralation means The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TRALATION — [Noun] The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor or trope. From Latin tralatio or translatio, meaning "a carrying over" or "transfer," related to transferre ("to carry over"). Unlike "translation," which dutifully ferries meaning across a linguistic border, or "metaphor," its most famous and pointed offspring, tralation is the older, secretive act of smuggling a word's sense across the boundary of the literal. It is the slow weathering of "grasp" from a physical clutch to an intellectual understanding, the alchemy by which a "bitter" wind becomes a "bitter" memory, the ghost of a ship's deck carried to a speaker's platform. Every tralation is a quiet testament to the mind's restless need to make the world anew through borrowed terms, because the world is always both less and more than the words we have for it.
noun
- The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.“My Detector could not have chosen a better man for the proof of the facility of this work, than him, who, according to the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists, gelded himself, and made himself no man for it.”