Metonymy
Metonymy (me*ton"i*my; 277) , noun
[Latin metonymia, Greek metwnymi`a; meta`, indicating change + 'o`nyma, for 'o`noma a name: compare French métonymie. See Name.]
(Rhetoric) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections; a city dweller has no wheels, that is, no automobile.