Metaphors

thumb|upright=1.35|1835 etching by George Cruikshank illustrating the metaphor of describing strong weather as "raining cats, dogs and pitchforks" A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for literary effect, refers to one thing by mentioning another. Thus, it invites the audience to make a comparison between two normally unrelated entities or ideas, which may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between them. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy.

thumb|upright=1.25|Jungle in Cambodia thumb|upright|Jungle on Tioman Island, [[Malaysia]] thumb|El Yunque National Forest in [[Puerto Rico, the only tropical rainforest managed by the U.S. National Forest Service]] A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past century. Because jungles occur on all inhabited landmasses and may incorporate numerous vegetation and land types in different climatic zones, the wildlife of jungles cannot be straightforwardly defined.

Paranoia, in psychiatry, is the belief that everything is about the person who is experiencing the paranoia. Paranoid thinking concerns how the paranoid person thinks. For example, a paranoid person may believe people are concerned with everything they are doing (for example, "Everyone is watching me", or "Talking about me"). These beliefs can also be persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (e.g., "Everyone is out to get me"). Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety, suspicion, or fear,

process of disclosing one's sexual orientation or other identity attributes

knot in Greek mythology, used as a metaphor for difficult problems with little or no solution

theatrical genre

self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource

A '''''' ( ; ; ; ; ) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore, supplemented with commentaries, that is used in Chan, Zen, Seon and Thiền Buddhist practice in different ways. The main goal of practice in Zen is to achieve (Chinese: ), to see or observe one's buddha-nature.

informal fallacy of presenting an argument that fails to address the issue in question

thumb|upright=2|Diagram demonstrating big- versus little-endianness

phrase to describe the mechanism of natural selection

elimination genre party game

dilemma between painful truth and blissful ignorance

situation in which an individual cannot or is incapable of avoiding a problem because of contradictory constraints or rules

legend

metaphor coined by Ward Cunningham (1992) for the implied cost of future rework caused by choosing an expedient solution in software development instead of a better approach

Closeted and in the closet are metaphors for LGBTQ people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior. This metaphor is associated and sometimes combined with coming out, the act of revealing one's sexuality or gender to others, to create the phrase "coming out of the closet".

medical condition

images used by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5:13–16)

manipulative tactic that focus on the tone in which a statement was presented and in turn detract attention from the truth or falsity of that statement

In Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term Bīja () (Jp. 種子 shuji) (Chinese 種子 zhǒngzǐ), literally seed, is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu. thumb|right|100px|The Om bija in Esoteric Buddhism

concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to Fate

irritability and restlessness upon isolated confinement for a long period of time

communications intended for insiders of a group

deliberately simplistic model with many details removed so that it can be used to explain a mechanism concisely, also useful in a description of the fuller model

idiom for something not understandable

metaphor to illustrate emptiness, dependent origination and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy

Mindstream (Pali: citta-santāna, Sanskrit: citta-saṃtāna, Tibetan: sems-rgyud, Ch: xin xiangxu 心相續) in Buddhist philosophy is the moment-to-moment continuum of sense impressions and mental phenomena (citta), which is also described as continuing from one life to another. Often described as a "stream of mind" or "mental continuum," the mindstream is not a static entity but a dynamic flow of arising and passing mental phenomena, which refers as a string of passing moments that happen either in the same lifetime or in the transitional period between one life and another.

observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look

philosophical concept

In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input. Many analytical techniques are often called bootstrap methods in reference to their self-starting or self-supporting implementation, such as bootstrapping in statistics, in finance, or in linguistics.

American English idiom

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metaphorical contrast of white and black

deductive fallacy

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list. A blacklist is synonymous with a list of banned persons or organizations, and is the opposite of a whitelist.

Buddhist philosophical concept which means five kinds of wisdoms appearing when the mind is purified