(/həˈmɒfənəs/). Homophones that are spelled the same are deemed both homographs and homonyms, e.g. the word read, as in "He is well read" (he is very learned) vs. the...

the top ten in several countries. The album's title is derived from the homonym numerological belief, and is connected to the fact of it being the singer's...

Bird on a Wire. To prepare for his role, James Woods followed his quasi-homonym, NYPD lieutenant James Wood, on the job, wearing a bulletproof vest. Wood...

questions are indicated with interrogative particles, most commonly /teː/, a homonym of the negation particle. Tag questions are indicated with various particles...

was similar to the fly genus Calobata. Additionally, it is also a junior homonym of the genus Calobates, established by the German naturalist Johann Jacob...

species, or uninomial for other ranks). The name must be unique (i.e. not a homonym). The description must be based on at least one name-bearing type specimen...

Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) Code and discarded C. australis as a junior homonym—in 1788, Gmelin had used the same binomial name to describe the black nunbird—to...

applies. According to this, a junior homonym replaced before 1961 is not rendered permanently invalid (as junior homonyms usually are) if "the substitute name...

different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...

Jiangsu province, China, "the famous flower of Yangtze River", Chinese homonym of the Yangtze River JPL · 5384 5385 Kamenka 1975 TS3 Kamenka (Kamianka)...

same as puns, which play on the varied means of a word or phrase or the homonyms thereof. "How many of these great female thinkers have you heard of?"....

meaning that Torpedo Duméril, 1806 (often cited in catalogs) is a junior homonym of Forsskål's name and cannot be used. Forsskål included only a single...

This recent slang is mostly pure Vietnamese, and almost all the words are homonyms or some form of wordplay. Some slang words may include profanity swear...

Retrieved May 18, 2011. Synonym of Vitis vulpina L.; an illegitimate later homonym (Vienna ICBN Art. 53) that is unavailable for use; a taxonomic, not nomenclatural...

a scientific name, Alauda obscura in 1790, but his name was an invalid homonym, the same name being used a year earlier by Gmelin for a different bird...

lexical. That is, tone is used to distinguish words which would otherwise be homonyms. This is characteristic of heavily tonal languages such as Chinese, Vietnamese...

find the process of picking characters from a list being too slow due to homonyms so the Cangjie method is generally preferred. Although thorough training...

efficient causation, and one which serves to distinguish it from most modern homonyms. For Aristotle, any process requires a constantly operative efficient cause...

extent associated with Communism. The word should not be confused with a homonym 同士, which is a more commonly used postfix to show people sharing a certain...

from an attempt to disguise the word "cook". That "cook" and "coke" were homonyms at this time is shown by the fact that Coke's second wife, Elizabeth Hatton...

zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...

loanwords are used and necessary to distinguish between otherwise ambiguous homonyms. Vietnam used to write in chữ Hán (Chinese characters) in Classical Chinese...

species are chosen to be unique and universal (except for some inter-code homonyms); they are in two parts used together: the genus as in Puma, and the specific...

"to have" and *jati "to take" as exemplified in the Middle Ukrainian homonymic imut’ from both iměti (< *jĭměti) and jati (< *jęti). Analogous grammaticalization...

French: Pays Basque) as a cultural region (not to be confused with the homonym Autonomous Community of the Basque country) is a European region in the...

12.10.1975. PMC 149134. PMID 11041891. "Virus Diseases of Cucurbits". Cornell University. October 1984. Archived from the original on November 17, 2013...

represents longevity due to its name having the word 'shou' being the homonym of shou (longevity) and 'dai' being the homophone of dai (代) which means...

René (1952). "Quelques précisions sur le chimiste Clouet et deux de ses homonymes". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et de Leurs Applications. 5 (4): 359–367...

porphyraceus) Columba forsteri in 1826, making the name Columba forsterii a junior homonym. As Prévost's name is thus invalid, Bonaparte's name, being the earliest...

zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...