(n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
(n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
(v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.
(2) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
(3) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(4) To evaluate these hypotheses, sentences were presented in which a pictured object replaced a word (rebus sentences).
(5) Standing in Another Man's Grave, the first book to feature Rebus since he retired in 2007's Exit Music, will be out this November, Rankin said on Tuesday.
(6) The data showed that Group B (rebuses) required fewer trials than Group A (abstract symbols) to meet criterion for Phase II, matching symbols to stimulus pictures.
(7) These are the things we are throwing away.” One of the libraries due to close is Bowhill, a place that Rankin, creator of detective John Rebus, said had been his “refuge and a place of constant wonder” when he was growing up.
(8) In a scene that could have come from a crime novel (and Rankin has said Rebus might have acted in the same way), Fulcher questioned a suspect, Chris Halliwell, on a remote hillside without access to legal advice in a desperate attempt to crack the case.
(9) "There's also a lot of similarities between Taggart and Rebus – that's the nature of crime," he said.
(10) Some say the couple wrote the finest crime series ever; that without them we would not have Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander.
(11) Gargan says that he accepts Rebus creator Ian Rankin's view that a novel that actually followed police procedure would be exceedingly dull, but he worries about the impact that fictional coppers have on the real article and wishes they were depicted in a more realistic way.
(12) The symbol sets included: nonidentical objects, miniature objects, identical colored photographs, nonidentical colored photographs, black-and-white photographs, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS), Picsyms, Rebus, Self-Talk, Blissymbols, and written words.
(13) And it certainly isn't Philip Marlowe , or John Rebus , or VI Warshawski (who manages to be twice as hardboiled as her male counterparts).
(14) Group A (abstract symbols) required fewer trials than Group B (rebuse) to meet criterion for Phase 111, matching printed words to stimulus pictures.
(15) Results indicated that treatment, consisting of a sound-referenced rebus approach, affected change in production of trained words as well as generalization to untrained words for targeted behaviors.
(16) Crime writers should depict more detectives as clean-living and balanced rather than damaged and hard-drinking like the Inspector Rebus of Ian Rankin's novels, a chief constable has said.
(17) It is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve.
(18) Which is why, largely to reassure fans who may or may not have read Joyce but read Rebus by the yard, poor Ian Rankin can be seen counting exactly how many steps there are on Edinburgh's Fleshmarket Close.
(19) The lexical hypothesis would therefore lead one to expect that rebus sentences will be relatively difficult, whereas the conceptual hypothesis would predict that rebus sentences would be rather easy.
(20) Ian Rankin has only yanked detective inspector John Rebus out of retirement, but fans will still be rejoicing at news that the dour investigator is set to return later this year with a new mystery to solve.
Rebut
Definition:
(v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.
(v. t.) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
(v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
(v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) He did not speculate about when that would be, and he did not rebut Cardin’s claim that it could be next month.
(2) Hinton’s defense lawyer wrongly thought he had only $1,000 to hire a ballistics expert to try to rebut the prosecution testimony about the bullets.
(3) "Once again, UK data has rebutted the claim that the UK is as bad as some of the eurozone's struggling economies," said ING economist Rob Carnell.
(4) However, letters to Hunt from the alliance's lawyers in January and February complaining about the way the process was being handled and issues with fair access were vigorously rebutted.
(5) He was at pains to rebut criticism in the western media over the jailing of journalists caught up in the long-running investigation into an attempted military coup and claims that the government has used the case to intimidate sections of the press.
(6) In this reply, we rebut his arguments and also describe new pharmacological and other recent data showing unambiguously that the nerve activity we measured was not of postganglionic sympathetic origin.
(7) The government has rebutted accusations that a vast free trade deal being negotiated between the EU and the US will act as a cover to privatise the NHS while also watering down food standards and banking regulations.
(8) The foreign affairs minister was one of a series of government ministers who sought to rebut concerns about labour movement provisions in the yet-to-be legislated agreement.
(9) This observation rebuts the concept of additional perfusion of capillaries which are devoid of plasma flow under resting conditions during coronary vasodilation.
(10) Nevertheless, Miliband’s inability to rebut criticisms that are longstanding and widespread is very much something that he has to take responsibility for himself.
(11) There is also the problematic fact that postcolonial theory has, in its account of the colonial encounter, focused almost exclusively on the matter of imperial misrepresentation: it largely ignores what non-western cultures were up to in the last two centuries, unless they were seen to be actively engaged in rebutting the coloniser.
(12) Rudd has also proposed sweeping changes to the rules governing the election of Labor leaders, in order to rebut Coalition claims that the “faceless” men could again dump him if Labor was voted back in.
(13) Schmidt still denies that he is interested in a career in politics; the question was rebutted with a brief "no".
(14) Mitt's now trying to rebut the "Let Detroit go bankrupt" line o argument, which is dumb.
(15) It was the time of the first intifada and Cholodenko worked for a lawyer in the justice department whose job it was to rebut the charges laid down in reports by the likes of Amnesty International.
(16) But, rebutting Hayden, he said: "What makes the United States special and what makes you special is precisely the fact that we are willing to uphold our values and our ideals even when it's hard, not just when it's easy, even when we are afraid and under threat, not just when its expedient to do so.
(17) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
(18) Chilcot wants to ensure that those criticised are given every opportunity to rebut the criticism.
(19) But he added: "To rebut it: I wouldn't like to have been one of those actors who hit stardom quite early on and expected it to continue and was stuck doing scripts that I didn't particularly like just to keep the income up.
(20) Most contentiously, the researchers rebutted the opinion of some ministers that it is the expanding number of food banks that is driving up the demand for food parcels.