WORD|of the day

[zeugma] noun; the use of a word to modify two or more words in such a way that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one

QUOTE|of the day

[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]

Alexander Pope

Last line is an example of zeugma -- both a bubble and a world are described as having "burst."