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Sentence count:54Posted:2017-03-27Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: punypunchpunishpunjabpunditexpungepungentpunishedMeaning: [pʌn]  n. a humorous play on words. v. make a play on words. 
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31. Rich language skills are employed, such as omission and leaping out, metaphor and pun, repetition and reference, elegancy and plainness.
32. Ying Pun, a mine northeast original camp, for the 50 - meter square Tucheng now dilapidation to farmland.
33. I remember a warm voice, expressive eyes, and bushy eyebrows that wiggled comically at a pun or a joke.
34. Polysemy, ambiguity, pun are three semantic phenomena which people always concern.
35. Tapi sewaktu MIFC Malaysia datang ke sini, saya dengar fans dari Indonesia pun ikut membantu mereka.
36. Japanese like to pun -- their language is well suited to punning.
37. This paper probes into the translation of those figures of sound such as alliteration, metaplasm, word play, homophonic pun, etc.
38. However, whichever way it takes, pun interpretation creates extra contextual effects, enhances message memorability and gives the audience intellectual pleasure from solving the pun.
39. Here Marx makes a pun with Plutus to express both the core of the earth and wealth.
40. The winning Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, are a pun on the Chinese word for reunion.
41. The phrase is a pun on haiwai guilai, meaning returned from overseas.
42. Even at the turn of the century, publishing was a closed game. Today, anyone can be a publisher, thanks to the read/write Web (no pun intended).
43. It involves many techniques of expression such as innuendo, pun, irony, euphony, allegory, hyperbole, and oblique references, etc.
44. The pun is a common rhetorical device in both Chinese and English.
45. In high school, he and a pal bought a pinball machine to pun in a barbershop.
46. David Pun introducing the title of his presentation stressing that forecast accuracy refers to sales forecast.sentence dictionary
47. Foregrounding at the semantic level lies in the employment of a number of rhetorical devices, i. e. , simile, metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, personification and pun.
48. It's the social phenomenon of transplacement of signal and pun. It's more obvious in the great social change.
49. The pun translation is always difficult; even some people consider puns as untranslatable.
50. The paper divides puns into paradigmatic puns and syntagmatic puns according to their structural characteristic-the relationship between the lexical strings compared in a pun.
51. Most noteworthy of that era of the Heat was their heated (pun intended) rivalry with the New York Knickerbockers .
52. A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
53. The title is a pun on Hatoyama's name, the first half of which is written with an ideograph meaning "dove" and which sounds like the Japanese pronunciation of "heart".
54. This is a humorous pun, or play on words for hilarious effect.
More similar words: punypunchpunishpunjabpunditexpungepungentpunishedpungencypunitivepuncturepunctualimpunitypunctuatecompunctionpunishmentpunctiliousacupuncturecapital punishmentcruel and unusual punishment
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