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Definition of rebus in English: rebusnounPlural rebuses ˈriːbəsˈribəs ![]() 1A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Example sentencesExamples - There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too.
- An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach.
- A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click.
- It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name.
- Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter ‘M.’
- Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles.
- Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper.
- Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus, in front of me.
- It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae.
- The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun.
- The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus, suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral.
- It's in the form of a rebus and translates to ‘I'm watching you.’
- 1.1historical An ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes.
Example sentencesExamples - Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus.
- Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder.
- Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
- Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries.
- As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.
- For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception.
Origin Early 17th century: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res 'thing'. Definition of rebus in US English: rebusnounˈrēbəsˈribəs 1A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. Example sentencesExamples - Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter ‘M.’
- Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper.
- It's in the form of a rebus and translates to ‘I'm watching you.’
- The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus, suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral.
- An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach.
- A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click.
- Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus, in front of me.
- There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too.
- The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun.
- It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name.
- It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae.
- Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles.
- 1.1historical An ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes.
Example sentencesExamples - Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder.
- For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception.
- Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
- As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.
- Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries.
- Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus.
Origin Early 17th century: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res ‘thing’. |