Blue represents both the sky and the sea, and is associated with open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, expansiveness, inspiration, and sensitivity. Blue also represents meanings of depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, confidence, stability, faith, heaven, and intelligence.

The literal sense of a word or phrase is its most basic sense. A literal translation is one in which you translate each word of the original work rather than giving the meaning of each expression or sentence using words that sound natural. A literal translation of the name Tapies is “walls.”

Figurative meaning, by definition, is the metaphorical, idiomatic, or ironic sense of a word or expression, in contrast to its literal meaning.

At the start of my degree course my work was mostly figurative . However, she brought back influences from the States and her patterns became far more figurative . In 1997 I began a change of direction to figurative work and raku firing.

Stamp means to forcibly strike down with the foot, or to imprint, impress or put a seal on something. An example of stamp is to stomp the feet. An example of stamp is to press an official seal on a letter. verb. 0.

1 : to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument. 2a(1) : to strike or beat forcibly with the bottom of the foot. (2) : to bring down (the foot) forcibly. b : to extinguish or destroy by or as if by stamping with the foot —usually used with out stamp out cancer. 3a : impress, imprint stamp “paid” on the bill.

Literal language uses words exactly according to their conventionally accepted meanings or denotation. Figurative (or non-literal) language uses words in a way that deviates from their conventionally accepted definitions in order to convey a more complicated meaning or heightened effect.

: a favorite or habitual resort also : familiar territory.

“Stomping ground” actually started out as “stamping ground” and first appeared in British English around 1820. So, what in the world was a “stamping ground”? A “stamping ground” originally referred to trampled down depressions in vegetation—a place where animals bedded down for the night.

the/(one’s) old stomping ground(s) A favorite place where one used to frequent; a location where one used to spend a lot of time. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to my old stomping ground by the lake!

1 : the districts around a city. 2a : environing things : surroundings. b : an adjoining region or space : vicinity.

1 : rigidly firm in will or purpose : unyielding. 2 : not readily bent : lacking or deficient in suppleness. 3 : incapable of change : unalterable.

In this page you can discover 88 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inflexible, like: obdurate, unchangeable, rigid, sturdy, unbendable, taut, resolute, adamant, stubborn, unyielding and unshakable.

Someone with an inflexible personality at work has a hard time adjusting to changes they don’t like, tends to reject ideas that go against their own preferences, and prefers to maintain their own way of doing things. They tend to be close-minded and are often rigid about their approach to tasks or projects.

adjective. If you say that someone is inflexible, you are criticizing them because they refuse to change their mind or alter their way of doing things. [disapproval] His opponents viewed him as stubborn, dogmatic, and inflexible. Synonyms: obstinate, strict, relentless, firm More Synonyms of inflexible.