Definition of rebus in English:

rebus

nounPlural rebuses ˈriːbəsˈribəs

1A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.
（以图画和字母组合代替词语的）画谜（如apex一词由代表ape的一张猿猴画后加字母X表示）
Example sentencesExamples
- There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too.
- An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach.
- A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click.
- It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name.
- Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter ‘M.’
- Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles.
- Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper.
- Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus, in front of me.
- It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae.
- The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun.
- The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus, suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral.
- It's in the form of a rebus and translates to ‘I'm watching you.’
1. 1.1historical An ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes.
  〈史〉（一语双关地暗指某人名字的）装饰图案
  Example sentencesExamples
  Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus.
  Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder.
  Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
  Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries.
  As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.
  For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res 'thing'.

Rhymes

Phoebus

Definition of rebus in US English:

rebus

nounˈrēbəsˈribəs

1A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.
（以图画和字母组合代替词语的）画谜（如apex一词由代表ape的一张猿猴画后加字母X表示）
Example sentencesExamples
- Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter ‘M.’
- Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper.
- It's in the form of a rebus and translates to ‘I'm watching you.’
- The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus, suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral.
- An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach.
- A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click.
- Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus, in front of me.
- There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too.
- The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun.
- It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name.
- It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae.
- Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles.
1. 1.1historical An ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes.
  〈史〉（一语双关地暗指某人名字的）装饰图案
  Example sentencesExamples
  Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder.
  For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception.
  Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
  As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.
  Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries.
  Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res ‘thing’.

单词	rebus
释义	Definition of rebus in English: rebus nounPlural rebuses ˈriːbəsˈribəs 1A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. （以图画和字母组合代替词语的）画谜（如apex一词由代表ape的一张猿猴画后加字母X表示） Example sentencesExamples There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too. An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach. A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click. It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name. Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter ‘M.’ Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles. Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper. Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus, in front of me. It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae. The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun. The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus, suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral. It's in the form of a rebus and translates to ‘I'm watching you.’ 1.1historical An ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes. 〈史〉（一语双关地暗指某人名字的）装饰图案 Example sentencesExamples Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus. Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder. Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework. Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries. As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references. For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception. Origin Early 17th century: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res 'thing'. Rhymes Phoebus Definition of rebus in US English: rebus nounˈrēbəsˈribəs 1A puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters; for instance, apex might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X. （以图画和字母组合代替词语的）画谜（如apex一词由代表ape的一张猿猴画后加字母X表示） Example sentencesExamples Just last week one of the words in the rebus puzzle was a cow plus a banjo minus the letter ‘M.’ Similar to doing a rebus or crossword puzzle, it's a drawing of nine dots, and the challenge is to connect them without lifting the pen from the paper. It's in the form of a rebus and translates to ‘I'm watching you.’ The relaxed conjunction of leaf and slingshot forms a rebus, suggesting the proximity of support and threat in relationships between things - all sorts of things, human, animal and mineral. An epigraph typically functions as a rebus for an essay, providing a gloss or indicating the author's approach. A rebus is a picture puzzle, and it seemed to click. Suppose I have a picture-puzzle, a rebus, in front of me. There seem to be puzzles, maybe even a few rebuses or word-games hidden in it too. The bamboo signifies uprightness, as mentioned above; the fungus, or lingzhi, was also thought to contribute longevity and the five bats are a rebus or pun. It may be that the heraldic nature of the squirrel's significance in the painting suggested the rebus like pun to represent the place name. It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae. Designs often took the form of pictorial puns and rebuses, or word puzzles. 1.1historical An ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes. 〈史〉（一语双关地暗指某人名字的）装饰图案 Example sentencesExamples Among the myriad rebuses on the aforementioned double-sided sheet at Windsor, there is an elaborate one on the verso that includes an image of a black yarnwinder. For Leonardo, the double meaning of word-images in a rebus, like the deceptive vagaries and elusive nature of vision, must have made him acutely aware of the relativity of perception. Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework. As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references. Visual puns and rebuses had been popular features in the heraldic imprese or devises of France for centuries. Amongst fragments set into the background of a fifteenth-century panel depicting St Mary Magdalen in the east chancel window are quarries with fragments of the Lovell rebus. Origin Early 17th century: from French rébus, from Latin rebus, ablative plural of res ‘thing’.
随便看	the wings the wings the winter/autumn of one's life the winterless north the winterless north the wire the wire the wish is father to the thought the wish is father to the thought the witching hour the witching hour the witwatersrand the witwatersrand thewness the wobblies the wobblies the wolstonian the wolstonian the wood the wood the woodwork the woodwork the woolsack the woolsack the word