figurative

Just like when scientists use words like design and God - it's not literal it's figurative.

There are a number of professions in which workers are paid, in part, with a figurative lottery ticket.

However, I think for many people it may be necessary to use the drug to open a figurative door.

If you sit in your figurative parent's basement waiting for that management job, it's not only bad for you it's also bad for the rest of us.

Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating.

Next think you know, he's being insulted on the internet because he released something he wrote to serve his needs and not passing on some sort of figurative mantle or blessing.

In many figurative contexts, like "transparent government" for instance, transparent means the mechanisms are apparent or not hidden.

At least in Google's early years, people had a tendency to see Google as a figurative Mom, more interested in providing the best search engine and some nice free services than making money at any cost.

This irrationally frightened public demands that their elected officials protect them from the imaginary monsters under their figurative beds.

Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent.

Even though I'm sure Adria has been putting up with tons of real sexism over the years in the tech industry, and that this may have been the figurative straw on the camel's back, this is definitely the wrong thing to focus on.

Whether in the figurative prison of Russian citizenship, or more likely in the literal underground Federal prison in Florence, CO, where security is so tight that inmates are shown their mail on television screens instead of being allowed to touch it, he is going to pay for what he did for the rest of his life.