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A funhouse or fun house is an amusement facility found in amusement parks and funfair midways, equipped with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, or amuse visitors. Unlike thrill rides or dark rides , fun houses are participatory attractions where visitors enter and move around at their own pace. [ 1 ]
Francisco Scaramanga's "Fun House" in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun has a house of mirrors. In John Boorman's 1974 movie Zardoz , character "Z" ( Sean Connery ) battles against "The Vortex" in a mirror maze.
Fun House, 2013 jazz album by Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch; Fun House (The Stooges album), a 1970 album by The Stooges; Fun House (Bob & Tom album), a 1997 comedy album by The Bob and Tom Show; Fun House, a 1998 comedy album by Dana Gould; Here We Go: Live at the Funhouse, a 2000 album by Run-D.M.C. Fun House, a 2001 album by Bonepony
A distorting mirror, funhouse mirror or carnival mirror is a popular attraction at carnivals and fairs. [1] Instead of a normal plane mirror that reflects a perfect mirror image, distorting mirrors are curved mirrors , often using convex and concave sections to achieve the distorted effect. [ 2 ]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
: The Funhouse gets a call from King Ludwig's herald, stating that they have been invited to attend the initiation of the latest member of King Ludwig's royal court. The Funhouse Friends arrive where King Ludwig is told by the Royal Troubadour states that he can't compose a welcome song if he doesn't know who the new addition is.
The site cross-references the contents of dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Collins English Dictionary; encyclopedias such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), and Wikipedia; book publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, as well as the Acronym Finder ...
A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.