syllepsis

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English - Turkish
çiftleme
{i} çift anlamlı kullanma
(Tıp) Gebelik
beklenmedik bir anda anlamı değişen mecaz
English - English
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

Related Terms

sylleptic
Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis
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