Amphiboly

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  • n. An ambiguous grammatical construction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Ambiguous discourse; amphibology.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The use of ambiguities; quibbling.
  • n. In logic, ambiguity in the meaning of a proposition, arising either from an uncertain syntax or from a figure of speech.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
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