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    Definition (section Homonyms)
    A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. Thus homonyms are...
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  • that orþanc genuinely does mean "cunning" in Old English, so that the homonym Tolkien had in mind was between Sindarin and Old English, that is, translated...
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    of German grammar, it is composed largely of words that are either near-homonyms of English words or (in the cases of the longer words) actual English words...
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  • replacement name Parapinnixa the following year, after learning of the senior homonym Pseudopinnixa Ortmann, 1894. The genus contains the following species:...
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  • "Horse-Mark", and Lohtûr for Éothéod, "horse-people". This word is an exact homonym of the Hungarian word for "horse", ló. The Rohirric word for "horse" has...
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    genus name to Eurydactylodes upon discovering that Andersson's name was a homonym for Eurydactylus LaFerté-Sénectère – an insect and member of Carabidae...
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  • a scream in the night to convey a sense of foreboding. The use of the homonym "who do" is an allusion to "hoodoo", a Louisiana/Mississippi folk magic...
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      It was an acronym for 'Digital's Executive - for the PDP-15.'  The homonymic relation between DEC, DEX and deques (used as the primary linkage mechanism...
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  • He worked with Gregory Hines and his rock band called Severance in his homonym album Severance (1976, Largo, keyboards) and with the American rock band...
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  • aau4061. PMID 30573628. S2CID 56582195. Andrew B. Leslie; Jeremy Beaulieu; Garth Holman; Christopher S. Campbell; Wenbin Mei; Linda R. Raubeson; Sarah Mathews...
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