w wa wb wc wd we wf wh wi wk wm wo wp wr ws wt wu wv ww wy

Перевод: wordplay

[существительное]
игра слов; каламбур

Тезаурус:

1. Punning, coining and wordplay are not immediately accessible to many readers; and as sustained devices, they can only be used in written texts, not in everyday speech.
2. I THINK Costello makes too many records for his own good, but here, he found a vein of country and swing which was peculiarly well suited to his wordplay and visual imagery.
3. An erudite attempt by Dr Ethel Seaton to prove (by the use of anagrams and hidden wordplay) that Sir Richard was the author of a number of other fifteenth-century poems has not won acceptance.
4. Here Hartman is also covertly speaking of himself, for his puns and wordplay and his jokey chapter headings are seldom far from the trivial.
5. Jip and Zab's father claims that computer logic, unlike human logic, "can't cope with a word used in a figurative sense, or with humour, which depends on wordplay, which is like assigning two values to a character" (87).
6. Sicily for Pound never but once had any existence that wasn't either verbal (as in the wordplay on "Trinacria" or the Eleanors), or else notional , ideological (as providing a sort of slender mnemonic crutch for a tendentious reading of history).
7. Mary Daly's classic work Gyn/Ecology is a good example of radical feminist wordplay.
8. Crisp, Clear Writing in One Hour is of little use to me I fear, but Guide to Wordplay and Word Games I have kept, as it contains a number of gems.
9. Xorandor is capable of wordplay, he even puns on Shakespeare: "softwarily we are observed" (179), and he gives a reply to one of the twins' questions that they later discover to have been "syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous" (183-;4).
10. The rough-and-ready DIY edge to the show is a clear reaction to the marketable art of the Eighties, and their confrontational "aesthetic" of indecent materials is given depth by a conceptual cleverness, by sexual puns and wordplay.
11. Seth was a bright child with a genius for wordplay and a talent for trouble; he bounced a devil-may-care swathe through lite private academies in New York, Connecticut and Switzerland.
12. Nearly 200,000 khaki uniforms will be traded in before 1991 for the Balmain number in a colour known as terre de France, a wordplay on the army's role in protecting French soil.
13. They introduce the concepts of rhyme and wordplay, as well as covering basics like alphabet and spelling.