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  2. The Wheels on the Bus - Wikipedia

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    "The Wheels on the Bus" is an American folk song written by Verna Hills (1898–1990). The earliest known publishing of the lyrics is the December 1937 issue of American Childhood, [1] originally called "The Bus", with the lyrics being "The wheels of the bus", with each verse ending in lines relevant to what the verse spoke of, as opposed to the current standard "all through the town" (or "all ...

  3. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    Bus accelerating to cross a bridge with a fence Stroboscopic conditions ensure that the visibility of a rotating wheel is broken into a series of brief episodes in which its motion is either absent (in the case of movie cameras ) or minimal (in the case of stroboscopes), interrupted by longer episodes of invisibility.

  4. Anadrome - Wikipedia

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    The digraph <wh> is not reversed. Many names within the book are also ananyms. work [2] [14] elgooG: Google: reverse-spelling search engine business Xallarap: parallax: Converse microlensing effect term Ebbot (Lundberg) Tobbe Tobbe is the usual hypocoristic of Torbjörn, his real given name. name (alias) 로꾸거 (Rokuko) 거꾸로 (gokkuro)

  5. Reverse dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A reverse dictionary is a dictionary alphabetized by the reversal of each entry: kcots (stock) kcotseid (diestock) kcotser (restock) kcotsevil (livestock) Before computers, reverse dictionaries were tedious to produce. The first computer-produced was Stahl and Scavnicky's A Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language, in 1974. [1]

  6. Amphisbaenic rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Amphisbaenic rhyme describes a pair of words that create an agreement in sound if the sequence of the letters in one of the words is reversed. [1] The term refers to the amphisbaena serpent in classical mythology. [2] The serpent had a head at each end of its body and therefore was able to move forwards and backwards.

  7. Automobile handling - Wikipedia

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    This can be done to some extent by using plastic windows (or none) and light roof, hood (bonnet) and trunk (boot) lid materials, by reducing the ground clearance, etc. Increasing the track with "reversed" wheels will have a similar effect, but the wider the car the less spare room it has on the road and the farther it may have to swerve to miss ...

  8. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  9. Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    A common example of synecdoche: using the term boots to mean "soldiers", as in the phrase "boots on the ground". Synecdoche ( / s ɪ ˈ n ɛ k d ə k i / sih- NEK -də-kee ) [ 1 ] is a type of metonymy ; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole ( pars pro toto ), or vice versa ( totum pro parte ).