Search results for "Pun" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Castor (the French word for "beaver"), a pun derived from the resemblance of her surname to "beaver." Although Sartre and Beauvoir ...19 KB (2,875 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- and the occurrence of the scallop is simply a pun on the name of the armiger, or for other reasons. == Taxonomy and list of genera == ...19 KB (2,833 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- as the Latin name of his order, Dominicanus is a pun on "Domini Canus," the "Lord's hound." Dominic was reportedly brought ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- thought, forms of thought we all use. The title is a pun untranslatable in English. In French, pensée means both "thought" and "pansy ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- The famous pun "give great praise to the Lord, and little laud to the devil" is a warning to Charles attributed to the official court ...19 KB (2,977 words) - 11:10, 10 May 2023
- They have also been referred to using a Latin pun, as "Domini canes," or "The Hounds of God," a reference to the order's ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- even in its own time. Even its title contains a lewd pun. It is based on several plays by Jean-Baptiste Molière, with added features that 1670s London ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic novel ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 17:07, 19 December 2022
- Samuel's mother Hanna seems to be making a pun on this word when she says to Eli the priest: The LORD has granted me what I asked [sha'al ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- imperial) was later added (Reichskristallnacht) as a pun on the Nazis' propensity to add this prefix to various terms and titles like Reichsführer ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- buried on the beach. Here, the name Kidd is a pun to the word "kid," meaning child. *In Corunna, Ontario, Canada, the first weekend ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- Moon, whose name is Usagi Tsukino, a Japanese pun on the words "rabbit of the moon." A Korean myth similar to the Japanese counterpart also ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
- literal translation, while Magister Ludi is a Latin pun meaning "master of the game" and also the name of a prominent character in the book. ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- jovial, Gioconda was a nickname for the sitter, a pun on the feminine form of her married name Giocondo and her disposition. Gabriele Bartz, Art and ...32 KB (4,849 words) - 15:32, 25 May 2023
- season. The result was No Sirree! (the name being a pun of the European revue Le Chauve Souris), "An Anonymous Entertainment by the Vicious Circle ...34 KB (5,358 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- to Howth Castle and Environs….” (with vicus a pun on Vico) and ends, “A way a lone a last a loved a long the.” In other words, the first sentence ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- According to Genesis [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- react with carbon to form PuC, nitrogen to form PuN, and silicon to form PuSi2. Like other actinides, plutonium readily forms a dioxide plutonyl ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- called Guerra de zapa ("War of Zapa"), a pun on the expression Trabajo de zapa, which means hidden work done slyly towards some particular ...40 KB (6,459 words) - 01:55, 8 September 2022
