A shifted attribution is not sufficient on its own. There must be a qarīnah ṣārifah (قرينة صارفة)—an indication that rules out an entirely literal reading of the predication.
This may arise from rational knowledge: water flows, while the river is its place. It may also arise from the wider sentence, the situation, or established usage.
The indication does not necessarily shift an individual noun's dictionary meaning. It guides the interpreter from a literal attribution to a contextually motivated attribution.