The course has the gravest faults, but it is very enjoyable to play upon in February, and in the winds that blow there one needs to be playing uncommonly well to get round in figures reasonably low.
Defn: A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning.
Defn: To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.
A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning.
He excited the curiosity of King Mark by refusing to play upon it till he should grant him a boon.
Mercury gave Amphion a lyre and taught him to play upon it, and his brother occupied himself in hunting and tending the flocks.
He was presented by his father with a Lyre and taught to play upon it, which he did to such perfection that nothing could withstand the charm of his music.
To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.
To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
Another mode of verbal misleading is equivocation or a play upon words; and it is defended on the theory that to lie is to use words in a sense which they will not bear.
I ask you now to play upon it; you refuse," and she paced the room like a caged tigress.
Signor Diotti prizes his violin highly and will not allow any one to play upon it but himself," and the look of relief on Diotti's face amply repaid her.
Uncle Sanders said you would not play upon it for me; he told me it was wrapped with a woman's hair, the hair of the woman you love.
It was his delight to travel from one country to another merely to play upon mankind, and no living soul was secure, either in house or field, nor could properly call them his own.
Only let me play upon my fiddle for the last time.
All words are not the same words in their meaning; the Welsh preacher seeks to play upon them as keys; the words themselves help him to do so.
Yet Williams was a singularly quiet preacher; these effects were wrought by the power of that language, so wonderfully fitted to work on the emotions of a very imaginative people, and which he knew how to play upon so well.
What a language, then, is this for a competent orator to play upon,—a man with an imaginative mind, and a fervid and fiery soul!
Another mode of verbal misleading is equivocation or a play upon words; and it is defended on the view that to lie is to use words in a sense which they will not bear.
Then the father gave the flute to his brothers to play upon, but they wouldn't.
A boy can hardly be a perfect savage, nor a man a money-maker or a pietist, who has acquired sufficient command of an instrument to play upon it with pleasure.
We trust the time is at hand when it will be seen that it is not less desirable for boys to learn to play upon an instrument than girls; and how much more a little skill in performing may do for a man than for a woman!
In reply to the charge, that the noble lute was a very hard instrument to play upon, he gives posterity a piece of history.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "play upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
