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Metaphorical extension: extension of an existing expression into a new recognizable way.

-Surf (sport) > surf (the Internet): “Digital electronic assistant programs that surf the Net and store information on our behalf will be must-have items in the future”.

Broadening: {alargamento,ampliar, estender}

-Cool (jazz style) > cool (slang, meaning ‘very nice, very good’): “Taking it all in and thinking, This is pretty damn cool”.

Narrowing: {estreitamento,limitar,contrair}

-Meat (any solid consumable food) > meat (edible solid flesh of animals): “Farmers say they have to feed the drugs to animals to keep them healthy and meet America's growing appetite for cheap meat”.

Semantic drift: {desvio semântico}

-Hlaf (loaf) dighe (dough) > Lady: “BA self-help relationship book becomes an amusing and often biting take on the war between the sexes with this film, based on comic Steve Harvey's ‘Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man’”.

Reversal or semantic change:

-A doctor (+), to doctor (-): “But just for the record, do you doctor books for some major corporation or just screw over the little guys trying to make it against the odds?”.