200106334L June 6, 2001 ************** ************** ************** Dear **************: Thank you for your letter concerning Texas taxes. You state that your company is a national service provider for the food and beverage, restaurant, and convenience store equipment industry.
zeugma. n. 1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens).
1 Zeugma. 2  From the Greek word Î¶ÎµÏÎ³Î¼Î±, meaning yoke. 3  A figure of speech in which one word applies to two others in different senses of that word, and in some cases only logically applies to one of the other two words. 4  This is a similar concept to syllepsis.