| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Farce.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb farce.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (farce) | 1. Fill with a stuffing while cooking.[Wordnet]. 2. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.[Websters]. 3. To render fat.[Websters]. 4. To swell out; to render pompous.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: farcing, farced, farces, farcer, farcers, farcingly and farcedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FARCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Specialty Definition: farce
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To stuff; to fill with mingled ingredients. [Little used.] The first principles of religion should not be forced with school points and private tenets.. | 2: [Verb] To extend; to swell out; as the farced title. [Little used.]. | 3: [Noun] f'ars. A dramatic composition, originally exhibited by charlatans or buffoons, in the open street, for the amusement of the crowd, but now introduced upon the stage. It is written without regularity, and filled with ludicrous conceits. The dialogue is usually low, the persons of inferior rank, and the fable or action trivial or ridiculous. Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a picture: the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Antiquities | Farce. See Comoedia; Rhinthon; Satira. (references) | ||
| Literature | Farce (1 syl.). Stuffing. Dramatic pieces of no solid worth, but stuffed full of ludicrous incidents and expressions. They bear the same analogy to the regular drama as force-meat does to a solid joint. (French, farce; Latin, farcio, to stuff.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Sports & Leisure | Short for farcical comedy, which is played at a quicker tempo and on broader lines than pure comedy. Modern farce or broad comedy is an elaboration of the original sense. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | A light, boisterous form of comedy in which the characters are exaggerated stereotypes, the action improbable to the point of being ludicrous, and the verbal and visual humor lacking in subtlety (example: Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas). Farce bears the same relationship to "high" comedy as melodrama to tragedy. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time. (references) | 2: [Noun] (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power. (references) | 3: [Noun] (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents The first month of labor negotiations was a farce. (references) | 4: [Noun] (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: farce
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Air Farce Live | Air Farce Live is an Canadian comedy album, performed by The Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe. It was released in 1983. The sketches were performed live during the "Air Farce Live at the Bayview" performance in 1983. (references) | ||
| Atellan farce | In Roman theatre, an Atellan farce an improvised comedic piece with exaggerated family situations or satirizing historical or mythological figures. (references) | ||
| Farce comedy | A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| The Air Farce Comedy Album | The Air Farce Comedy Album is an Canadian comedy album, performed by The Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy troupe. It was released in 1979. The sketches were performed in CBC's Studio 4 over a two day period on 23rd and 24th of August 1978. The never-before-performed sketches were performed in front of a live audience, allowing for spontaneous reaction. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: farce
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FARCE | English | Fish Acid Ribo Cycle Endemic | Biology & Biotechnology | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: farce | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Air Farce Live | 43 | Air Farce Live | 43 | |
| Delta Farce | 20 | Air Farce Live (album) | 6 | |
| Royal Canadian Air Farce | 19 | Bedroom farce | 9 | |
| Farce | 14 | Bedroom Farce (play) | 5 | |
| Bedroom farce | 9 | Delta Farce | 20 | |
| Farce Side Comedy Hour | 9 | Farce | 14 | |
| Farce of the Penguins | 8 | Farce of the Penguins | 8 | |
| The Ungodly Farce | 7 | Farce Side Comedy Hour | 9 | |
| La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin | 7 | La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin | 7 | |
| Air Farce Live (album) | 6 | Royal Canadian Air Farce | 19 | |
| The Air Farce Comedy Album | 6 | The Air Farce Comedy Album | 6 | |
| Bedroom Farce (play) | 5 | The Ungodly Farce | 7 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
