单词 | amphiboly |
释义 | amphiboly (once / 844237 pages) n WORD FAMILY amphiboly USAGE EXAMPLESIf it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) Of the Equivocal Nature or Amphiboly of the Conceptions of Reflection from the Confusion of the Transcendental with the Empirical use of the Understanding. Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, The Critique of Pure Reason(2010) n an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes Syn|Hyper amphibology ambiguity an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context |
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