(n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.
(v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
(v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
(2) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
(4) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
(5) Hemingway’s daughter, Corey, is in a marquee at the back of the site, painting a teddy bear onto some MDF, in the pursuit of a Teddy Boy pun that either doesn’t work, or I don’t get, but it looks great.
(6) The outcome of 53 patients operated on either for posttraumatic ulnar neuropathy (PUN) or non-traumatic cubital tunnel syndrome (CTS) was reviewed after 3 years follow-up.
(7) In a report called "Un-Finnished Business" (you can always rely on the rating agencies for a bad pun), the analysts write: We think the risks to growth in 2012 and 2013 are rising.
(8) In all experiments, supplementing TRP-deficient diets with D- and L-TRP significantly increased feed intake, rate and efficiency of gain and decreased plasma urea N (PUN).
(9) Systemic LH, FSH, glucagon, cortisol, PUN, NEFA, estradiol, and testosterone were not affected by insulin or level of feeding.
(10) The first of April is normally a day of frothy fun, where newspapers and brands compete to produce the best jokes and the worst puns to fool their readers.
(11) The unfortunate design hasn’t gone unnoticed and attracted puns galore when it was posted on Reddit over the weekend .
(12) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The signs of wealth are everywhere, from the luxury gated village of the Pun Hlaing Golf Estate to the towers around swimming pools of Star City , both projects of the Pun empire.
(13) Emad Hajjaj, a popular Jordanian cartoonist, drew an elderly Palestinian woman by her sagging UN tent saying – in an untranslatable pun on the words “Charlie” and the colloquial Arabic “I have been” – that she had lived as a refugee for the 67 years since the creation of Israel in 1948.
(14) During the war years, his snappy, escapist films brought joy to audiences on the home front, while he was the only Hope (puns on his surname have always been de rigueur ) for thousands of troops overseas whom he entertained on his various tours from 1941.
(15) Second, the yuck factor: isn't it just beyond tasteful (no pun intended) for a woman to put her nipple into another woman's baby's mouth?
(16) The report tackles a number of issues which, excuse the pun, have been ‘bubbling’ up over the last year.
(17) Sorry and all that, but the pun was too good to use: Genre?
(18) Was The Wine Show supposed to be a deliberately awful pun on The One Show?
(19) The comedian Rob Auton, 30, has seen off competition from acclaimed pun-slingers including Tim Vine and Gary Delaney to pick up TV channel Dave's annual award for one-liners at the fringe.
(20) An experiment was conducted with 36 crossbred finishing pigs (18 male castrates and 18 females) to evaluate the effect of bromocriptine implants on growth, feed intake, feed efficiency, plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) and carcass characteristics.
Pur
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.
(v. t.) To signify or express by purring.
(n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) No correlation between PUR, platelet survival, platelet function and the clinical situation could be assessed.
(2) The sequence of markers in the corresponding segment (mel to purA; 91.5 to 93.5 min) of the E. coli linkage map was shown to be mel--aspA--mop(groE)--ampA--frdA--pur A.
(3) Two types of repetitive DNA elements are located within the PAI-1 structural gene and flanking DNAs: we have found 12 Alu elements and 5 repeats of a long poly (Pur) element.
(4) These things happen, it all comes together and a team suddenly starts purring; we hit five in about 10 minutes and, with Jimmy [Greaves] in that groove, we'd have beaten any team anywhere.
(5) Pur repressor bound specifically to purF operator DNA as determined by gel retardation and DNase I footprinting assays.
(6) It is concluded that: PUR, but not BAC, is a useful pharmacological tool for the aminopeptidase inhibition and for activation of enkephalinergic neurons; aminopeptidases are concerned with activities of opioid peptides.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron tells Michael Bloomberg ‘the Queen purred’ Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the discussions between Geidt and Heywood.
(8) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
(9) The order of the markers was hom-1-thr-1-his-1-(gly-1 or gly-2)-pur-1-pur-2.
(10) Nicola Sturgeon could be sat in that castle now – we know she had her eye on it – it was a damn close-run thing.” Royal circles found particularly offensive Cameron’s portrayal of the Queen as having “purred down the line” when he telephoned her to tell her Scotland had voted against independence.
(11) The dominance of the referendum explains why a relieved Cameron told the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an overheard conversation days after the referendum, that the Queen had “ purred down the line ” when he told her the result.
(12) Furthermore, Pur-1 is able to activate an intact insulin promoter in HeLa cells, where it is normally inactive.
(13) The concentration of PPRibP has been examined in the rat adrenal gland at various times after induction of diabetes with STZ, in view of the key role it plays in the synthesis of Purs and Pyrs.
(14) Mutations in this group have previously been shown to be pleiotropic, affecting not only ras but also two other genetic entities, gua 1 and pur 1, which yield auxotrophic mutations.--The eight new mutations have been characterized phenotypically in double heterozygotes with gua 1, pur 1 and ras mutations.
(15) Washington is positively purring with pleasure over Abe's tougher stance.
(16) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
(17) Puromycin aminonucleoside, an analog of PUR with no inhibitory action on protein synthesis, had no effect.
(18) Exogenously supplied histidine (that blocks conversion of AMP to guanine nucleotides) does not reduce the growth rate of the strain of pur apt genotype on adenosine as the sole purine source.
(19) The mutation, called rer, is located between arg B and pur D loci.
(20) PUR induced the dose-related analgesic effect abolished by NAL and increased the level of ENK in the striatum.