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metaphorical
attacking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 255, 264 ]
TroFi.o.224
Mr. Schnittke is also a composer of extremes , and in the new Fourth Piano Sonata he has Mr. Feltsman achieving kinetic climaxes at the highest and lowest registers simultaneously , the pianist 's arms widely extended and lunging at the piano like a hawk attacking his prey .
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 184, 192 ]
TroFi.o.3552
Philip Morris also has $ 1.5 billion in available cash and the ability to acquire more funding if necessary , although people close to the company said some of the funds available are targeted for other corporate purposes and for expenses related to the proposed acquisition .
metaphorical
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 156, 165 ]
TroFi.o.3593
Since May , he has hired a marketing consultant , a creative director and a new marketing manager to help Hanover use its consumer lists more effectively , targeting only those consumers most likely to buy .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 10, 16 ]
TroFi.o.1942
The storm killed about 100 people on land , and left more than 100 , 000 homeless .
literal
drank
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 38, 43 ]
TroFi.o.746
Mr. Andrews ate rancid mutton fat and drank mare 's milk in the Gobi with the best and worst of them .
literal
rained
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 32, 38 ]
TroFi.o.2683
Then , after 3 1 2 innings , it rained , with the Cubs ahead , 3-1 .
literal
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 109, 116 ]
TroFi.o.2377
However , new-crop beans -- to be planted this spring -- were up on continued expectations that this year 's planted acreage wo n't exceed last year 's by much , analysts said .
metaphorical
evaporate
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 87, 96 ]
TroFi.o.1001
At least one dealer , Mr. Feigen , feels that art as an investment is a fad that could evaporate if the Japanese economy weakens .
metaphorical
evaporated
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 152, 162 ]
TroFi.o.1024
Austrian companies , for example , complain that their sales of shoes and clothes to the Soviet Union -- more than $ 100 million in 1984 -- have almost evaporated .
literal
cooling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 99, 106 ]
TroFi.o.344
The revolutionary gallium arsenide circuits used in a forthcoming model , the Cray-3 , experienced cooling problems that resulted in millions of dollars of added costs .
metaphorical
cooling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 170, 177 ]
TroFi.o.340
The delay agreed to by the railroad and the United Transportation Union will give Congress a chance to take final action today on a bill reinstating a government-ordered cooling off period in the long-running labor dispute .
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 89, 96 ]
TroFi.o.1408
He said that in the wake of the airliner incident , U.S. intelligence agencies have been flooded with warnings , many of them of questionable reliability , of possible Iranian-sponsored attacks .
metaphorical
poured
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 6, 12 ]
TroFi.o.2526
China poured tens of thousands of dollars into producing the country 's first batch of U.S.-trained M.B.A.s , including Mr. Wang .
metaphorical
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 127, 136 ]
TroFi.o.458
Astrotech went into a deep tailspin two years ago , officials say , with the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger , which destroyed hopes of near-term commercial space travel .
literal
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 31 ]
TroFi.o.2404
The winter wheat crop , planted last fall , `` is deteriorating as it matures because of moisture deficiencies , '' said Mr. Schwensen .
metaphorical
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 69, 74 ]
TroFi.o.2962
Perhaps the Logan regulators have made themselves a bed they can not sleep in , suggests Mr. Smith: `` An ideology of radical egalitarianism that sees people as uniform blocks of mud is what gives you the idea that 200 scouts are better than two CEOs . ''/''
literal
dance
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 89, 94 ]
TroFi.o.355
Even more inadvertently hilarious is Alexander Godunov , the Soviet defector who used to dance for a living .
literal
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 77, 84 ]
TroFi.o.417
Because they 're so accurate , cruise missiles can use conventional bombs to destroy targets that only a few years ago required nuclear warheads .
metaphorical
pouring
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 21, 28 ]
TroFi.o.2553
Mr. Icahn is already pouring money into his effort to fight Texaco 's plan .
metaphorical
evaporate
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 122, 131 ]
TroFi.o.1009
If widespread window dressing is occurring , then last week 's rally and any upward move in prices this week could easily evaporate after the end of the quarter .
literal
melted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 48, 54 ]
TroFi.o.2181
In Mr. Kupfer 's `` Ring , '' a nuclear war has melted most of the world and made shopping difficult .
literal
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 2, 7 ]
TroFi.o.2955
I sleep better when I compete . ''/''
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 183, 191 ]
TroFi.o.3563
The results of the study will be used by nonprofit groups eager to identify potential donors and will be incorporated into advertisements for the `` Give Five '' program that will be targeted next year to young professionals , Mr. O'Connell says .
literal
destroying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 78, 88 ]
TroFi.o.503
Companies still spend billions of dollars printing and storing forms -- - and destroying them when , say , an address changes .
metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 137, 145 ]
TroFi.o.182
It turned out that a protein segment in cartilage is similar to the bacterial protein segment , which explained why the white cells also attacked the cartilage .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 13, 19 ]
TroFi.o.1940
The shelling killed two people in his kibbutz .
metaphorical
attacks
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 98, 105 ]
TroFi.o.251
The drought is spawning an explosion in the spider mite population by harming a plant fungus that attacks the tiny insects .
metaphorical
pouring
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 176, 183 ]
TroFi.o.2556
Perhaps the most surprising finding of the commission was that in 50 major Big Board stocks , 30 % of the specialists sold more shares on Oct. 19 than they bought , apparently pouring gasoline on an already raging fire .
literal
pumping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 52, 59 ]
TroFi.o.2636
Lung congestion is a result of weakened or impaired pumping action by the heart 's key lower left chamber .
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 33, 40 ]
TroFi.o.1409
His public-relations people have flooded reporters with copies of his speeches .
metaphorical
wither
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 91, 97 ]
TroFi.o.3707
Their primary concern is that the latest campaign , like many others before it , will soon wither away , leaving the gangs firmly in control and more contemptuous of the law than ever .
literal
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 116, 123 ]
TroFi.o.1399
And gang killings -- though still occurring at the rate of several a week -- have declined sharply since the police flooded the streets .
literal
danced
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 64, 70 ]
TroFi.o.386
`` This music is n't meant to be watched , it 's intended to be danced , '' Mr. Gutierrez pleads from the stage .
literal
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 85, 88 ]
TroFi.o.853
Most seafood eaters never give a second thought to the safety of the delicacies they eat .
literal
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 27, 30 ]
TroFi.o.839
Bachelor 's diet: You only eat half of everything you cook -- because the other half sticks to the bottom of the pan .
metaphorical
flourish
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 32 ]
TroFi.o.1482
For entrepreneurship to flourish , it must be clear to all Poles that money-making not only will be permitted but also will be fostered .
metaphorical
attacking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 112, 121 ]
TroFi.o.222
Meanwhile , the U.S. quietly tries to persuade former Israeli Defense Minister Sharon not to undercut Shamir by attacking the peace effort .
literal
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 17, 25 ]
TroFi.o.194
Rioting Iranians attacked the Soviet Union 's Embassy in Tehran , accusing Moscow of supplying Iraq with missiles used in recent raids on Iran .
metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 54 ]
TroFi.o.172
In Idaho last week , the Indiana conservative attacked the Carter administration for having shown an `` insensitivity to Western needs '' and having tried to `` cancel vital water projects . ''/''
metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 45, 53 ]
TroFi.o.158
And when Mr. Chirac did get an opponent , he attacked the Francois Mitterrand of 1981 , not the one of 1988 .
metaphorical
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 70, 74 ]
TroFi.o.285
One trader said that the rumors of the Finance Ministry 's efforts to cool trading of the large-capitalization issues triggered the losses in the steel and heavy industrial sectors .
literal
pumping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 59, 66 ]
TroFi.o.2645
Scientists disagree , however , as to whether the heart 's pumping power is a true predictor of survival .
literal
flown
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 49, 54 ]
TroFi.o.1593
A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile .
metaphorical
dissolved
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 19, 28 ]
TroFi.o.628
That agreement was dissolved after a regulatory challenge , but Seagram ultimately won Martell with an offer valuing the company at 5.25 billion French francs -LRB- $ 820.6 million -RRB- .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 153, 159 ]
TroFi.o.1930
The federal government and Morton Thiokol Inc. bought annuities totaling $ 7.7 million to settle legal claims by the survivors of four of the astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster , documents showed .
literal
fly
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 7, 10 ]
TroFi.o.1651
Others fly them out as personal luggage .
literal
dancing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 69, 76 ]
TroFi.o.412
With their wives and girlfriends in Mexico , it 's common to see men dancing alone here .
literal
melting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 91, 98 ]
TroFi.o.2202
In a joint venture with a Japanese company this fall , Nucor Corp. of Charlotte will start melting steel in a new 500-worker I-beam mill at Blytheville , Ark . , on the Mississippi .
metaphorical
pouring
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 51, 58 ]
TroFi.o.2571
`` The drivers smelled anti-freeze , noticed smoke pouring from the engines , and within 10 to 15 minutes , the engines were engulfed in flames . ''/''
literal
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 144, 153 ]
TroFi.o.3599
While the chief contracting officer in the cruise-missile office , Mr. Parkin in 1982 helped Mr. Galvin get a $ 225 , 964 contract to study the targeting equipment for the Tomahawk missile , according to the Navy and Mr. Parkin .
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 79, 85 ]
TroFi.o.1699
The route generates about $ 120 million in revenue for United , which has been flying it since 1983 .
metaphorical
withered
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 54 ]
TroFi.o.3709
But by 1985 the boom was over , and sales had withered to $ 100 million .
literal
target
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 76, 82 ]
TroFi.o.3515
Col. North again proposed luring Col. Gadhafi to a spot where bombers could target him .
metaphorical
attack
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 21, 27 ]
TroFi.o.135
Labor unions , too , attack the underground economy .
metaphorical
evaporate
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 195, 204 ]
TroFi.o.1019
`` Within a few years , we 're either going to see parents paying significantly higher tuition rates for good-quality care , or there 's going to be no coverage at all and child care is going to evaporate . ''/''
literal
slept
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 83, 88 ]
TroFi.o.3017
`` One of the clues that it was n't really a crash was that she said everyone else slept through it , '' he says .
metaphorical
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 36, 42 ]
TroFi.o.1687
Mexico verifies crop destruction by flying over sprayed sites ; it calls on-ground inspections too risky .
metaphorical
plowing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 22, 29 ]
TroFi.o.2482
Among those currently plowing millions into non-U.S. investments are the San Francisco City and County Employees Retirement System and state funds in Oregon and Colorado .
literal
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 44, 53 ]
TroFi.o.474
Once the people move , these houses will be destroyed .
literal
pumping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 107, 114 ]
TroFi.o.2641
One of the highest concentrations of chemical plants in the nation , its hulking factories whir and hiss , pumping steam into a hazy , burnt-orange sky .
metaphorical
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 266, 275 ]
TroFi.o.454
After a recent Barron 's magazine article about the fund 's woes , Kenneth Edlund , a Delmar , N.Y . , investor , groused in a letter to the publication 's editor that for five years he `` watched in disbelief as , during the great secular bull market , David Baker destroyed my young son 's $ 17 , 000 college nest egg . ''/''
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 71, 78 ]
TroFi.o.1413
Indeed , research is being slowed because state laboratories have been flooded with requests by veterinarians for tests on livestock feed .
metaphorical
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 77, 86 ]
TroFi.o.461
Equally important , his Socialist government absorbed and then , in effect , destroyed the French Communist Party .
metaphorical
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 37, 44 ]
TroFi.o.443
`` If Roger had purposely set out to destroy all morale in what was once the most confident and secure company going , he could n't have done a better job , '' Mr. Lee quotes an unnamed GM executive .
metaphorical
stumbling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 10, 19 ]
TroFi.o.3506
But other stumbling blocks on the way to being a world-class news agency are not so simple , because they 're held in place by a half-century of political inertia .
literal
flew
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 58, 62 ]
TroFi.o.1381
For the first five months of the year , the NWA Inc. unit flew 14.9 billion revenue passenger miles , down 7.5 % from 16.1 billion miles a year earlier .
metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 161, 169 ]
TroFi.o.156
According to a recently unsealed transcript of a closed meeting in Judge Pollack 's chambers with defense attorneys on Sept. 13 , the judge claimed he was being attacked `` professionally '' and threatened to impose sanctions if the lawyers pursued the issue of removing him .
metaphorical
attacking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 33 ]
TroFi.o.246
`` We 're going to keep attacking . ''/''
literal
dissolved
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 5, 14 ]
TroFi.o.638
When dissolved in water , the protein acts as a catalyst to aid the freezing process by increasing the effective freezing point of water by 8 degrees to 10 degrees Fahrenheit .
literal
rain
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 85, 89 ]
TroFi.o.2663
For now , he will just reseed the dry wheat fields to soybeans on the chance it will rain .
literal
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 176, 185 ]
TroFi.o.452
A federal magistrate in New Orleans accused the brokerage unit of PaineWebber Inc. of relentless `` stonewalling '' -- among other things , permitting potential evidence to be destroyed -- to prevent a customer-complaint lawsuit from going to trial .
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 72, 79 ]
TroFi.o.1440
The specter raised by economic nationalists is that the country will be flooded with foreign materials .
literal
drinking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 52, 60 ]
TroFi.o.806
Now , the pock-marked nightspot is crowded with men drinking arak liquor and slapping dominoes and backgammon pieces on rickety tables .
literal
drink
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 65, 70 ]
TroFi.o.769
Many who live in the zone still seem almost hyper-American: They drink harder , pray more , salute faster .
metaphorical
flooding
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 37, 45 ]
TroFi.o.1461
Saudi Arabia is expected to continue flooding the market with oil for at least two more weeks , until two OPEC panels meet to consider ways to curb output and prop up prices .
metaphorical
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 241, 248 ]
TroFi.o.420
Claiborne had said in its complaint last month that Avon 's failure to meet its obligation for the Fall and Christmas seasons , which together account for more than 70 % of annual sales for the venture , would `` irreparably harm and likely destroy the business . ''/''
literal
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 17, 22 ]
TroFi.o.2950
He can no longer sleep , he says , nor even concentrate long enough to take in a newspaper article without reading it several times .
literal
dancing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 21, 28 ]
TroFi.o.409
They were greeted by dancing pigs , flying pigs and several hundred thousand people pigging out .
metaphorical
pump
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 80, 84 ]
TroFi.o.2585
However , Robert M. Bass Group Inc. of Fort Worth , Texas , which has agreed to pump $ 550 million in new capital into American Savings and acquire the thrift with $ 2 billion of federal aid , apparently plans to launch its own campaign to market various financial services through American Savings .
literal
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 43, 46 ]
TroFi.o.841
But the overwhelming mass of Soviet people eat dinner at home , after wasting millions of hours in line buying dreadful food , barely seeing a green vegetable in a state grocery all winter -LRB- although the citrus situation is vastly improved from what it once was -RRB- .
metaphorical
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 5, 12 ]
TroFi.o.2398
That planted the seeds of discontent between Mr. Kirk and the Jackson forces .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 40, 46 ]
TroFi.o.1951
`` Does somebody have to get hurt -- or killed ? ''/''
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 78, 85 ]
TroFi.o.1431
Supermarket chains are n't willing to pay much for beef because they 've been flooded with cheap poultry .
metaphorical
plowing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 79, 86 ]
TroFi.o.2490
Most African governments pay lip service but not much else to the principle of plowing those hunting revenues back into the rural communities .
literal
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 58, 62 ]
TroFi.o.282
Normal cooling costs are defined as the expected costs to cool a residence in average August weather , which is based on temperature records for the past 30 years .
literal
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 26, 34 ]
TroFi.o.585
Actigall could be used to dissolve the fragments that remain from that procedure .
metaphorical
sleeping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 13, 21 ]
TroFi.o.2987
Everyone was sleeping with Noriega .
metaphorical
stumbled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 13, 21 ]
TroFi.o.3462
But the Army stumbled in getting the project off the ground , and by the time the Army was nearing key decisions on the project , Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci 's budget ax fell .
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 85, 93 ]
TroFi.o.3544
It also was the buyer of Safeway Stores Inc . , another grocery chain unsuccessfully targeted by the Hafts .
literal
pumped
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 142, 148 ]
TroFi.o.2614
The solvent , methyl tert-butyl ether , has been known for some time to dissolve gallstones but has n't been widely used because it had to be pumped into the gallbladder by a hand syringe for several hours while the patient was under general anesthesia .
literal
killing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 72, 79 ]
TroFi.o.1966
In a Batman comic book hitting newsstands next week , DC Comics Inc. is killing off one of its oldest characters , the younger half of the Dynamic Duo .
metaphorical
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 55 ]
TroFi.o.3592
Second , if politicians think that the Fed is targeting economic growth , they will blame the Fed if the economy slows .
metaphorical
attack
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 37, 43 ]
TroFi.o.143
The World Wildlife Fund is trying to attack the problem at its source , by working with developing countries to control the poaching and set up wildlife management programs .
literal
sleeping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 198, 206 ]
TroFi.o.2988
Friends and analysts predict it will be very difficult for the hard-driving entrepreneur to let go of his company that , early on , succeeded in coming up with a highly successful device to monitor sleeping infants .
literal
drinking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 105, 113 ]
TroFi.o.815
`` The celebrity could bring more damage to the program and to somebody else 's recovery if they started drinking again , '' says Chris Jorgensen , vice president of communications .
literal
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 28, 33 ]
TroFi.o.2967
Strike two is when I ca n't sleep .
literal
plant
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 115, 120 ]
TroFi.o.2356
The best way to reduce erosion is to lower price supports and target-prices that make it profitable for farmers to plant on marginal , highly erosive low-yielding ground .
metaphorical
wither
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 107, 113 ]
TroFi.o.3706
That means just patching their patches , like some farmer making do with a secondhand tractor , until they wither away .
metaphorical
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 90, 99 ]
TroFi.o.3594
The Justice Department matched this effort by forming an Environmental Crimes Unit and by targeting environmental crime as a high priority for FBI investigations .
literal
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 114, 123 ]
TroFi.o.490
This is also true , I believe , with respect to the famous Buddhist university at Nalanda , India , which too was destroyed by the Moslem hordes , who had no respect for others ' learning .

http://natlang.cs.sfu.ca/software/trofi.html

@inproceedings{birke-sarkar-2007-active,
    title = "Active Learning for the Identification of Nonliteral Language",
    author = "Birke, Julia  and
      Sarkar, Anoop",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Figurative Language",
    month = apr,
    year = "2007",
    address = "Rochester, New York",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W07-0104",
    pages = "21--28",
}
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