amusement

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On the west coast Amtrak is more of an amusement park ride than a practical transportation option.

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Quick take

(uncountable) Entertainment.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of amusement gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) Entertainment.

noun

(countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for amusement.

noun

(uncountable) Entertainment.

noun

(countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.

Example sentences

On the west coast Amtrak is more of an amusement park ride than a practical transportation option.

There was the amusement with it reacting to debug being passed to the kernel which caused the system to never finish booting...

> city’s amusement tax How in the world is that not extortion?

There is a certain amusement value in a perceived SEO-spam account, posting a story about messing up backlinks, messing up the link.

It's more of an amusement park ride than a way to get somewhere.

Well thanks for assuming ignorance rather than amusement on my part.

It's as if the newspapers were published for your own amusement.

I don't want to ever go there, I don't take amusement in other people's suffering.

Aside from my lack of amusement by Haskell's type system, I'm not making any moral or qualitative judgements one way or another.

This is not some epic fantasy for your amusement.

I'm a UI designer and built something conceptually similar for my own research/amusement.

Genuinely interested to know the source of your amusement.

Quote examples

They have an "Amusement Tax" (Orwell couldn't have named this better himself) which applies to co's that sell tickets to shows, etc.

Sadly since then the "for the lulz" troll brigades has latched onto systemd as a source of "amusement"...

> They have an "Amusement Tax" (Orwell couldn't have named this better himself) There's nothing Orwellian going on here.

There's nothing intrinsically unusual about this, of course, but it lends a certain sardonic amusement to an outsider's perspective on the "changing the world" rhetoric which SV has taken beyond mere cliché to what may be a new and previously unimagined realm of banality.