Equivoque vs. Pun — What's the Difference?

An equivocal word or expression.

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.

A pun.

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

A double meaning.

To make puns or a pun.

(obsolete) Equivocal.

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

(obsolete) A homonym.

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

A play on words, a pun.

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

Ambiguity or double meaning.

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An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.

To pound.

An equivocation; a guibble.

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.

To persuade or affect by a pun.

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.

A humorous play on words;

Make a play on words;