Metaphor:TIME IS A SUBSTANCE

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Name Gloss TIME IS A SUBSTANCE
Name Transcription
Aliases
Description
Metaphor Level General
Metaphor Type Primary
Experiential Basis
Source Frame Substance
Roles:substance
Target Frame Time
Roles:unit, duration


Mappings:

time <= substance
duration_of_time <= amount_of_substance
extent_of_duration_of_time <= size_of_amount_of_substance

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor TIME IS A SUBSTANCE
Relation Type is a source subcase of
Related Metaphor TIME IS AN ENTITY
Description
Current Metaphor TIME IS A SUBSTANCE
Relation Type is in some source relation to
Related Metaphor TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT
Description

Entailments:


Examples:

Example Text: The flow of time
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:
Example Text: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: Days of Our Lives (TV show)
Annotation:
Comments:

Graph of related metaphors:

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:TIME_IS_A_MOVING_OBJECT" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n1 -> n3 [label = "is in some source relation to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Liquid" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Liquid" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Physical entity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_entity" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

Facts about "TIME IS A SUBSTANCE"
ExampleEnglish (The flow of time, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) + and English (Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives., ?, ?, Days of Our Lives (TV show), ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Substance +
Has target frameFrame:Time +
Mappingtime (substance, ?) +, duration_of_time (amount_of_substance, ?) + and extent_of_duration_of_time (size_of_amount_of_substance, ?) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Substance +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Time +
Metaphor.TypePrimary +
Related metaphoris a source subcase of (TIME IS AN ENTITY, ?) + and is in some source relation to (TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT, ?) +
Has subobject
"Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page.
Metaphor:TIME IS A SUBSTANCE#Is_example_of +