What's the difference between pun and teaser?

Pun


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pound.
  • (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.

Teaser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who teases or vexes.
  • (n.) A jager gull.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But initial fan reaction to the first teaser trailers was harsh.
  • (2) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
  • (3) Sixty-six of 200 ewe lambs born in 1984 were not marked by a harnessed teaser before mating; 12 of these were examined further and eight were found to have bilateral ovarian hypoplasia.
  • (4) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
  • (5) Finn and Rey take on Kylo Ren together April’s teaser showed us a worried-looking Finn taking on the much larger Ren in a forest landscape.
  • (6) Since the first teaser trailer was released 11 months ago , we’ve been spoonfed a steady diet of images and story details – carefully chosen to reveal very little and keep us obsessing about minutiae like the colour of C-3PO’s arm .
  • (7) But as online outlets become ever more important for spreading the word on a movie, so teasers are becoming ubiquitous.
  • (8) The sheep were killed within 30 to 36 hours after the oestrus determination with a teaser ram.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Supreme Leader Snoke finally has his answer Andy Serkis’s First Order bad guy No 1 was the first voice we heard in the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens a year ago, asking: “There has been an awakening ... have you felt it?” Twelve months on we discover he’s addressing hooded Vader fanboy Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) who responds simply: “Yes.” This dynamic pitches the pair as the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader of the new movie, and yet continues to raise further questions.
  • (10) Media has been summoned to an event at Facebook's headquarters in California on 4 April, with teaser invitations bearing the words "Come See Our New Home on Android".
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The first teaser has now hit the web ahead of the film’s 16 December release date, revealing Shadowtroopers (some are calling them Deathtroopers), the return of Mon Mothma and AT-AT walkers.
  • (12) The only other difference between the 2 centers was that center A used 1- and 2-year-old bulls as teasers for older, heavier bulls to mount, whereas center B used bulls that were at least 6 years old to withstand the stress placed on their hind limbs by the weight of bulls undergoing semen collection.
  • (13) We stripped it out, and tried building it again Big Issue editor Paul McNamee “A couple of weeks ago we sent out a [Cumberbatch] teaser and the fans were on the website and Twitter asking questions.
  • (14) Each attempt ends with a server error and my desultorily trying to glean something from available teaser videos.
  • (15) Teaser video advertisements for the forthcoming Samsung "unboxing" feature a boy whose face is lit up by a golden glow as he becomes the first to lift the lid on the S4.
  • (16) Often you’ll pick up stuff you can’t use until you rank up – a little teaser that Bungie hopes will ensure players keep coming back.
  • (17) For sites operating on a minimal budget with a remit of clicks-means- dollah , teaser materials can mean months of lovely free content.
  • (18) Wonderful Pistachios: 'Stephen Colbert' (starts at 00:06) - US Anyone familiar with Stephen Colbert's style of comedy won't be at all surprised to see his suggestion in this teaser that the muscular sports event is merely a sideshow – the real interest is his first commercial for Wonderful Pistachios.
  • (19) "This is qualitatively different to complaints about misleading teasers that we have had before because these complaints are about the impact on Jade Goody and her family rather than misleading readers with teasers to get them to buy a magazine," a spokesman for the PCC told MediaGuardian.co.uk.
  • (20) Promotions for Reflektor included street art , a secret Instagram account and, most recently, some cryptic teaser videos .

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