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Rebus vs Rebuts - What's the difference?

rebus | rebuts |

As a noun rebus

is rebus (puzzle).

As a verb rebuts is

(rebut).

rebus

English

Noun

(wikipedia rebus) (es)
  • A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
  • (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.

    • Verb

  • To mark or indicate by a rebus.
  • * Fuller
    • He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.

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    rebuts

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rebut)

    • Anagrams

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    rebut

    English

    Verb

    (rebutt)
  • To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
  • * Spenser
    • Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, / Perforce rebutted back.
  • (senseid)To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

    • Derived terms

    * rebuttal * rebutter

    References

    * " rebut, v. " listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)

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