Look up: Pun


  1. Pun
    Playful device where similar sounding words with different meanings, or single words with multiple meanings are employed. Shakespeare frequently used puns for both comic and serious effect e.g. in Romeo and Juliet the dying Mercutio says: 'Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.' ...
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

  2. pun
    [n] - a humorous play on words 2. [v] - make a play on words
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=pun

  3. PUN
    Physical Unit Number
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  4. Pun
    a deliberate playing on two possible meanings of one word. e.g. arms (as in limbs on the body ) and arms (as in weapons) or meet (as in coming together with someone socially and meat (as in flesh) This device is usually used to create a comic effect. It is very popular with newspaper headline writer...
    Found op http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/hrc_style.html

  5. Pun
    a play on words; use of words with similar sounds but different meaning to humorous effect. For example, grave has two possible meanings, which Shakespeare used in 'Romeo and Juliet'. Mercutio's final words were: 'ask for me tomorrow And you shall find me a grave man'; red and read sound the same, ...
    Found op http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63285/nls_fw

  6. Pun
    Pun transitive verb [ See Pound to beat.] To pound. [ Obsolete] « He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.» Shak.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/194

  7. Pun
    Pun noun [ Confer Pun to pound, Pound to beat.] A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation....
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/194

  8. Pun
    Pun intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Punned ; present participle & verbal noun Punning .] To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/194

  9. Pun
    Pun transitive verb To persuade or affect by a pun. Addison.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/194

  10. pun
    A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. 'A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich ga...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?pun

  11. pun
    punning noun a humorous play on words; `I do it for the pun of it`; `his constant punning irritated her`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pun



  1. Pun
    • (n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. • (v. t.) To pound. • (v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun. • (v. i.) To mak...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pun/

  2. pun
    a humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or applications, or a play on words, as in the use of the word rings in the ... [3 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/133

  3. PuN
    Plutonium(III) Nitride Molar mass: 258.0067
    Found op http://www.convertunits.com/molarmass/Plutonium(III)+Nitride

  4. pun
    pun 1. A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words; the word or phrase used in this way. 2. The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of wor...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3017/

  5. Pun
    The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic, homograp...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun

  6. pun
    an expression that uses a homonym (two different words spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. For example, 'When Professor Fudge asked his graduate students to bring a really good lay to the next class, their collective opinion of the scholar went up a notch.'
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic

  7. pun
    A play upon words mostly used for humorous reasons. Example: the use of one word that has two meanings or of two words that sound alike.
    Found op http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryengl.html

  8. pun
    pun, use of words, usually humorous, based on (a) the several meanings of one word, (b) a similarity of meaning between words that are pronounced the same, or (c) the difference in meanings between two words pronounced the same and spelled somewhat similarly, e.g., Thomas Hood's “They went and...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0840519.html

  9. pun
    Figure of speech, a play on words, or double meaning that is technically known as paronomasia (Greek `adapted meaning`). Double meaning can be accidental, often resulting from homonymy, or the multiple meaning of words; puns, however, are deliberate, intended as jokes or as clever and compact remark...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005971.html

  10. pun
    1) 'don't be fuelish,' for one 2) 'i can't ride my bike. it's two tired,' e.g. 3) 'let us spray,' e.g. 4) 'queen of denial,' e.g. 5) 'queen of denial' for queen of the nile 6) 'queen of denial', e.g. 7) 'the santa clause,' for one 8) 'treat hom...
    Found op walter redfern 9) A humorous play on word (ex. you see an ice sculp

  11. Pun
    Synonym (also Puin
    Found op http://www.wein-plus.eu/en/Pun%C3%A9chon_3.0.6470.html

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