"What is a common synonym for the word ""tempest""?"
Tempest in a teapot Tempest in a teapot Tempest in a teapot (American English), or storm in a teacup (British English), is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion. There are also lesser known or earlier variants, such as "tempest in a teacup", "storm in a cream bowl", "tempest in a glass of water", "storm in a wash-hand basin", and "storm in a glass of water". Cicero, in the first century BC, in his "De Legibus", used a similar phrase in Latin, possibly the precursor to the modern expressions, ""Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo ut dicitur Gratidius"", translated:
Synonym in others (for example, a "long arm" is not the same as an "extended arm"). Synonyms are also a source of euphemisms. Metonymy can sometimes be a form of synonymy: "the White House" is used as a synonym of "the administration" in referring to the U.S. executive branch under a specific president. Thus a metonym is a type of synonym, and the word "metonym" is a hyponym of the word "synonym". The analysis of synonymy, polysemy, hyponymy, and hypernymy is inherent to taxonomy and ontology in the information-science senses of those terms. It has applications in pedagogy and machine learning,