enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs

    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_literary_terms

    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  4. Intrigue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrigue

    Halloween, intrigue is used in haunted attractions such as haunted houses and halloween theme park rides; Roasting, comedic jabs and parodies or satire that features intrigue building; All pages with titles containing Intrigue; Intriguer, a 2010 album by Crowded House

  5. Cabal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal

    A French (translated into English) humorous image of a cabal. A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.

  6. Verb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb

    As verbs in Spanish incorporate the subject as a TAM suffix, Spanish is not actually a null-subject language, unlike Mandarin (see above). Such verbs in Spanish also have a valency of 1. Intransitive and transitive verbs are the most common, but the impersonal and objective verbs are somewhat different from the norm. In the objective, the verb ...

  7. Comedy of intrigue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_of_intrigue

    Cover to the Italian comedy of intrigue, The Deceived Ones (Italian: Gl'ingannati, 1531). The comedy of intrigue, also known as the comedy of situation, is a genre of comedy in which dramatic action is prioritised over the development of character, complicated strategems and conspiracies drive the plot, and farcical humour and contrived or ridiculous dramatic situations are often employed. [1]

  8. Resultative - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resultative

    'The Schmied smith hämmert hammers das the Metall metal flach. flat.' Der Schmied hämmert das Metall flach. 'The smith hammers the metal flat.' Verbal resultatives This sort of resultative is a grammatical aspect construction that indicates the result state of the event denoted by the verb. English does not have a productive resultative construction. It is widely accepted that the be ...

  9. Initial-stress-derived noun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun

    The list of affected words differs from area to area, and often depends on whether a word is used metaphorically or not. At least 170 verb-noun or verb-adjective pairs exist. Some examples are: record. as a verb, "Remember to recórd the show!". as a noun, "I'll keep a récord of that request." permit. as a verb, "I won't permít that."