syllepsis

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von syllepsis im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: çiftleme; {i} çift anlamlı kullanma; (Tıp) Gebelik; beklenmedik bir anda anlamı değişen mecaz

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von syllepsis im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem; A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity
Example: She lowered her standards by raising her glass, Her courage, her eyes and his hopes. Flanders and Swan.; use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc; The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc; use of a single word that applies to two or more others in different senses "He was deep in thought and in debt " Also, "We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately " -- Benjamin Franklin See also: zeugma; with only one; A type of zeugma in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, agrees grammatically with two or more other words, but semantically with only one, thereby effecting a shift in sense with the other, as in "colder than ice and a usurer's heart," or Pope's Or stain her Honour, or her new Brocade Sidelight: Because of the shift in sense, the syllepsis is related to the pun or paronomasia (Compare Hendiadys, Prolepsis); use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc with only one; as, rex et regina beati; {i} instance in which a word modifies or governs two or more words in the same sentence but only grammatically agrees with one (Grammar); A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time
sylleptic: Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis