From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

In our disbelief we think that we can no longer even use the word and so are unable to even name the elemental power which is so vividly real in this play.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ) ( 1921 ) – the play that introduced the word robot to the world – were organic artificial humans, the word " robot " has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

The game, first known as crapaud ( a French word meaning " toad " in reference to the original style of play by people crouched over a floor or sidewalk ), reportedly owes its modern popularity to street craps.

He is the last Diamont ( presumably a play on the word diamond, which is composed of carbon ).

Reasons for this transition was productive uses for such monitors, i. e. besides widescreen computer game play and movie viewing, are the word processor display of two standard letter pages side by side, as well as CAD displays of large-size drawings and CAD application menus at the same time.

Deferral also comes into play, as the words that occur following " house " in any expression will revise the meaning of that word, sometimes dramatically so.

This is often not an issue for people without agrammatic aphasias, but many aphasics rely very heavily on word order to understand roles that words play within the sentence.

In some, use of the word " team " is sometimes limited to those who play on the field in a match and does not always include other players who may take part as replacements or emergency players.

It was Prince who changed the title to Follies ; he was " intrigued by the psychology of a reunion of old chorus dancers and loved the play on the word ' follies '".

Famous for his word play and neologisms, he coined the genre nickname " sci-fi ".

The name was coined by Anklesaria as a play off of several meanings of the word " gopher.

As both hurd and hird are just alternate spellings for the English word herd, the full name GNU Hurd is also a play on the words herd of gnus, reflecting how the kernel works.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

They are still best known for their second album, Shpritsz — a play on the German word for syringe — from 1978.

" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.

The series name, The Paper Gods, is a play on the word kami, which also means paper in Japanese.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

Yachtel, a relatively new word, indicates a waterfront type of hotel where a yachtsman may dock and find overnight accommodations on the premises as well as other services.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

His second conclusion, on semantic word classes, agrees with mine.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

Each switch occupies one digit position in a word, can be set on or off, and is considered as logically equivalent to an electronic switch.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.

Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept has an inherently diffuse meaning based on widespread or informal usage.

Ghostwriters, technical writers, and textbooks writers are typically paid in a different way: usually a set fee or a per word rate rather than on a percentage of sales.

In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.

The videos on the right hand side of the page highlight the different ways to sign the word about.

This neologism is based on the prefix u-( as in the word utopia, a place that does not exist ) and the Greek for time, chronos.