Luna vs Pun - What's the difference?
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(entomology) A luna moth: a member of species .
* 1944 , (Elizabeth Enright), Then There Were Five , Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:
* 1969 , (Sterling North), “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in , May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America,
* 2010 , Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest , Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., ISBN 978-1-57912-837-1,
(Christianity, chiefly, Catholicism, and, Anglicanism) A lunette : a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. “
* 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine , Volume 30, Number 5,
* 1917 , John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church , BiblioLife, LLC (2009), ISBN 9781113714084,
* 2007 , John Trigilio and Kenneth Brighenti, The Catholicism Answer Book: The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions , Sourcebooks, Inc., ISBN 9781402208065,
(Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
* 1922 , U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend , Volume 91, Number 6 (June 1922)
* 1959 , (novel), Fawcett Crest (1986), ISBN 9780449213353, page 737:
* 2000 , Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrants in Hawai?i, 1903–1973 , University of Hawai?i Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-2241-5,
* 2000 , Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: the cultural power of law , page 321:
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To beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.
* Shakespeare
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
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To make or tell a pun; make a play on words.
As nouns the difference between luna and pun
is that luna is moon while pun is a joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.As a verb pun is
to beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder or pun can be to make or tell a pun; make a play on words.luna
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna'! I never thought I’d see a real ' luna !”
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- On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.
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- Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas , cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.
luna” in Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum (editors), An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians , Church Publishing, Inc. (2000), ISBN 978-0-89869-211-2.
page 494:
- The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna', and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the ' luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it
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- This receptacle is called a “luna'” or “lunula” (a moon, or a little moon), and has glass on either side, so that the Host may be seen when enclosed therein.
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- The luna', which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The ' luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.
Synonyms
* (glass holder) lunette, lunulaEtymology 2
From the (etyl) word .1986 , Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian, revised and enlarged edition (University of Hawaii Press)Noun
(en noun)page 130:
- There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.
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- While political problems between Japan and Korea would soon spill over into Hawai?i and sour relations between the two groups, the primary concern the Koreans had was with plantation work and the haoles (Caucasians) who acted in supervisory capacities as managers, doctors, and lunas .
- After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.
Usage notes
* This noun, though inflected as an English word (singular ), is frequently italicized as a loanword.Anagrams
*References
pun
English
(wikipedia pun)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.
Etymology 2
From a special use of Etymology 1 .Noun
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- "Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears'' and ''Vices I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun , I entreat."
Usage notes
* Because some puns are based on pronunciation, puns are more obvious when spoken aloud. For example: “This rock is gneiss, but don’t take it for granite.” This reads (with a US accent) similarly to “This rock is nice, but don’t take it for granted.” (Both “gneiss” and “granite” are types of rock.)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.