For instance, "Hollywood" is used as a metonym for the U.S. film industry because of the fame and cultural identity of Hollywood, a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, as the historical center of film studios and film stars.
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The 2nd Company received the callsign of Jonquille (Narcissus pseudonarcissus; by tradition, chasseurs alpins never utter the word "yellow", but use the colour of the plant as a metonymy).
Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy), the inventor of EMERAC (used as a homoiophone metonym for ENIAC) and an efficiency expert, is brought in to see how the library functions, to figure out how to ease the transition.