Granite vs. Pun

Granitenoun

(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.

Granitenoun

Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.

Granitenoun

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.

Granitenoun

plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz

Granitenoun

something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness);

Granite

Granite () is a coarse-grained igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.

Punverb

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

Punverb

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Punnoun

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.

Punnoun

: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3{{nbsp}}cm.

Punverb

To pound.

Punverb

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.

Punverb

To persuade or affect by a pun.

Punnoun

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

Punnoun

a humorous play on words;

Punverb

make a play on words;

Pun

The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.