Search results for "Pun" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Bald Guy" in musicological circles. A pun off his name, it is a fitting description of his characteristically sporadic style of composition ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
- once having been "useless" to him (a pun on Onesimus's name, which means "useful"), and having done him wrong. The dominant ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Kerényi believes the story of Hyrieus to be original, and that the pun on Orion was made for the myth, rather than the other way around. ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 06:32, 8 April 2024
- as "The Axis Of Weasel," a pun on the "Axis of Evil." A popular cynical office poster states, "Eagles may soar, but ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- The term was coined as a pun by the Russian poet, Nikolai Glazkov, in the 1940s based on an analogy with the names of Soviet official publishing ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- Penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating single specimen ... pronunciation of the Chinese penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating ...25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- the world's earliest known marketing pun, Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum). Graffiti carved on the walls shows ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- in a city called "Bethulia," a possible pun on the Hebrew word for "virgin," is also believed by many to be fictional. However ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Chapman, whose adventures always end in an elaborate pun, and "the Brother," and "the Da." Some of these characters (in particular ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- |- | colspan="2" align="center" | [[image:Ga,31.jpg|125px|Typical (melted blob)]] [[Image:Gallium1_640x480.jpg|130px|Crystallized ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- Yisrael BaAliyah ("Israel for aliya," or a pun, "Israel on the rise") promoting the absorption of the Soviet Jews into Israeli society ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- * Yi Pun, nephew of the admiral and witness of the war, mentions briefly in his biographical record that the upper part (roof deck) was covered ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- the tension with a funny comment, a pun, or an unexpected twist to the story. The comic situations portray fundamental human experiences, such ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- and Bāna) for the sake of the pun. We must then assume that the later spelling subsequently replaced the earlier in the gotra lists and elsewhere. ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- surname is "Zhen," which is a pun on "real".) ... the Xues' maid, born Zhen Ying-lian (a pun on "she who is to be ...35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- quot; for ducks), as well as to make a pun on the relationship between Munster and its provincial capital, Cork, in the passage "Three quarks ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
- The German-language title is a pun on the phrase Mann mit Eigenschaften—literally "man with qualities"—equivalent to the English ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- 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 (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
- simple ephemeral nature of the verse but also a pun on the French verb panser, meaning to dress or bandage a wound. His wounds still needed soothing ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- the "sorrowful knowledge" (a pun on Nietzsche's "The Joyful Knowledge") with which the book is concerned is "the ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his ...46 KB (7,062 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- informal and showing intimacy called "apna pun" in Urdu) and the plural form āp (formal and respectful). Similarly, verbs, for example, "come ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- in Tolkien's The Notion Club Papers is a pun on this. undergraduate John Jethro Rashbold, and Old Professor Rashbold at Pembroke; Carpenter ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- |leader_name2 = Nanda Kishor Pun |leader_title3 = Prime Minister |leader_name3 = Sher Bahadur Deuba | area_km2 = 147,181 ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophers | era = Nineteenth-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = Nietzsche1882 ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- lord of the flies, is most likely to be a deliberate pun, by the anti-Hadad writer, on the term Ba'alzebul, meaning prince Ba'al, i.e. Hadad ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
- Henry VI, part 3, along with the pun "Shake-scene," identifies Shakespeare as Greene’s target. {| class="toccolours" style ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- sold over 30,000 copies. It was centered on the pun alluding to Trandafiloff's name—trandafir cu of în coadă (lit. "a rose ending in ...64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023