jest – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: wit,
humour,
wittiness,
humor,
witticism,
diversion,
recreation,
intercommunicate,
communicate,
do,
act,
behave
jest
v.
joke, speak or act in a facetious manner; jeer, taunt, mock, scoff
n.
joke, witticism; jeering or mocking remark; sport, fun; laughing-stock, subject of a joke or mockery
Joke
A
joke is a display of
humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people
laugh. It takes the form of a story, usually with dialogue, and ends in a
punch line. It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that the story contains a second, conflicting meaning. This can be done using a
pun or other word play such as
irony, a logical incompatibility, nonsense or other means. Linguist
Robert Hetzron offers the definition:
"A joke is a short humorous piece of oral literature in which the funniness culminates in the final sentence, called the punchline… In fact, the main condition is that the tension should reach its highest level at the very end. No continuation relieving the tension should be added. As for its being "oral," it is true that jokes may appear printed, but when further transferred, there is no obligation to reproduce the text verbatim, as in the case of poetry."
jest
Noun
1. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
(synonym) joke, gag, laugh, jape
(hypernym) wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
(hyponym) belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot
(part-meronym) punch line, laugh line, gag line, tag line
(derivation) joke
2. activity characterized by good humor
(synonym) joke, jocularity
(hypernym) diversion, recreation
(hyponym) drollery, waggery
(derivation) joke
Verb
1. tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious"
(synonym) joke
(hypernym) communicate, intercommunicate
(hyponym) gag, quip
(see-also) ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
(derivation) joke, jocularity
2. act in a funny or teasing way
(synonym) joke
(hypernym) act, behave, do
(hyponym) clown, clown around, antic
(derivation) joke, jocularity
jest
n.
gesture, gesticulation, sign
Jest
(v. i.)
To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
(v. i.)
To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
(v. i.)
The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
(n.)
Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
(n.)
A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
(n.)
A deed; an action; a gest.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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