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Poetic term for what the Rolling Stones lyric "she blew my nose and then she blew my mind" contains
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zeugma
Alternative clues for the word zeugma
- Figure of speech exemplified by "You held your breath and the door for me"
- Rhetorical device exemplified by the Daft Punk lyric "Let's raise the bar/And our cups to the stars"
- Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
- New game going round university under unknown figure of speech
Word definitions for zeugma in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "a single word (usually a verb or adjective) made to refer to two or more nouns in a sentence" (but properly applying to only one of them), from Greek zeugma , "a zeugma; that which is used for joining; boat bridge," literally "a yoking," from zeugnynai ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A zeugma is a figure of speech . Zeugma may also refer to: Zeugma, Commagene , an ancient settlement in Commagene (eastern Anatolia) Zeugma, Dacia , an ancient settlement in Dacia, mentioned by Ptolemy Seleucia at the Zeugma , an ancient Hellenistic city ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zeugma \Zeug"ma\, n. [L., from Gr. ?, fr. ? to yoke, join. See Yoke .] (Gram.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, ``hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;'' ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one. 2 (context rhetoric English) syllepsis.
Usage examples of zeugma.
To Rex it mattered little who owned what in Antioch, in Zeugma, in Samosata, in Damascus.
All went well until he crossed the Euphrates at Zeugma, his destination Cilicia Pedia and then Tarsus.
Euphrates at Zeugma he hosted a conference between himself, Tigranes and ambassadors from the King of the Parthians.
At Zeugma on the Euphrates he did conclude a treaty of friendship with the satrap Orobazus of Seleuceia-on-Tigris, acting on behalf of my suzerain, King Mithridates of the Parthians.
We were to meet him on the east bank of the Euphrates at Zeugma, which we reached at the end of the month.
In case you do not know, it takes a great bend westward below Zeugma, which would admittedly have added many, many miles to the march.
Abgarus, we could save at least four or five days of marching if we headed due east from Zeugma across the desert until we came to the Bilechas River.
Therefore, said Abgarus, we could save at least four or five days of marching if we headed due east from Zeugma across the desert until we came to the Bilechas River.
The next ford, he was informed, lay at Zeugma, across the border in Syria.
Having reached this point he affected to be afraid that the barbarians might abandon the place where they customarily crossed the Euphrates near where the city Zeugma is located, and use some other road farther down the river.
The Scorpion was engraved on the medals of the Kings of Comagena, and Capricorn on those of Zeugma, Anazorba, and other cities.
This procedure, resembling as it does the trope of zeugma, gives the effect of reducing diverse things to unity, eliminating particulars for generalities, just as the final two feet of the hexameter, the dactyl and the final firm spondee, cut across the grammatical and word divisions to punctuate the shifting cadences of the first four feet.
Krispos watched Zeugmas object as the regimental commander had, watched Sarkis talk him round.
All went well until he crossed the Euphrates at Zeugma, his destination Cilicia Pedia and then Tarsus.
To Rex it mattered little who owned what in Antioch, in Zeugma, in Samosata, in Damascus.