charade

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
2. isim A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
3. isim A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
4. isim A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.

   “This whole charade is absurd.”

5. isim A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof.

   “Sometimes the tricks above may be used in combination: a homophone may come in two pieces like a charade (RAINBOW sounding like REIGN + BEAU) or a charade may be reversed (TACKLE having ELK + CAT backwards).”

6. fiil To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend.

   “I'm not trying to say: let's try to get away from power rituals because power manifestation is a very important part of sex. It is when it takes the form of charading gay punishment, punishing one of our own in order to allow him a gay contact.”