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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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    since the original name Ichneumon instigator Fabricius, 1793 is a junior homonym of Ichneumon instigator Rossius, 1790, which represents a pimpline species...
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    country today. When Rotten sings "I use the enemy", it's a deliberate homonym for "I use the NME", or New Musical Express, the British weekly music newspaper...
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    and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...
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    on his 2011 tour. The following year, he released with the group the EP homonyms Troupe D’Elite, which was criticised by some music critics as a disfigurement...
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    inside joke, as the character is never seen in the film. The name is a homonym of the French "elle est morte," meaning "she is dead". Making Lady in the...
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    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...
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    a replacement name making E. deserticola McDunnough a junior secondary homonym. However, Kemel & Koçak (2016) clarify that a replacement name had already...
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    to feature the rabbit that would evolve into Bugs Bunny. The title is a homonym with an old nonsense expression — "harum-scarum", meaning reckless or irresponsible...
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  • Than a naughty boy Mălo: In adversity The rhyme explains the Latin near-homonym sentence "malo malo malo malo"[note 2], where each is a different meaning...
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    and is situated in the Levantine Sea. It is the largest island of the homonym archipelago comprising the islands and islets of Agios Georgios, Agrielaia...
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  • homonymy blocking and synonymy blocking, stops some potential words. A homonym of an existing word may be blocked. For example, the word liver meaning...
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  • conventions of Standard English is normally expected. Some of the examples are homonyms or pairs of similarly spelled words that are often confused. The words...
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    name for the river Tigris. However, today, the names are thought to be homonyms, and the connection between the tiger and the river is doubted. In 1758...
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  • for the concept of tikkun olam, claiming that the original prayer used a homonym "l'takhen" (spelled differently, לתכן‎) meaning "to establish" (rather...
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  • (homsan) Toft – for homsan see "Whomper"; Toft is perhaps imaginary, though homonymic with toft, "thwart (n.), rowlock", Finnish: Homssu) – a small, very shy...
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  • the number "1000" was printed on the note at 45°. The word "kos′ar'" (homonymic meaning is "mower") can also be referred to another money slang expression...
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  • 1 おっさん n. a Buddhism priest. Contraction of "oshoo-san". Note that the homonym "ossan" meaning "uncle" or "old man" differs in accent. obowaru 3 覚わる 5v...
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  • while is also the inverted homonym of 摺紙 (zher-zhi, origami), and combined with his surname 王 (Wang, king), it's homonym of "origami king". Origami Fighter...
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    Belvoir Castle on 23 April 1603, but whether it was his eldest son or the homonym grandson is not sure. Valentine Browne married secondly Thomasine, daughter...
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  • Queen decides it is time to schedule Wonderland's first spelling bee. Her homonym word choices, though, ensure that everyone loses-but Alice and her friends...
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  • pronounced identically, which helps differentiate words that would otherwise be homonyms, as in mane (silent ⟨e⟩ strategy), main (digraph strategy) and Maine (both...
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  • of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, S.S.J. (Josephites - which has a homonym) Society of the Catholic Apostolate, S.A.C. (Pallottines) Society of the...
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  • Prior to mid-1974 she invented gestures to indicate specific phonemes and homonyms regardless of semantic context, unlike previous observations of invented...
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  • ends her sentences with na no (〜なの, lit. "You know"), and her name is a homonym for a drop of water (albeit with different Kanji). As a mizuchi, Shizuku...
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  • double-meaning; it is katakana for the English word "machine", but is a homonym of the Japanese word for "evil spirit", "magical spirit", or "demon god"...
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  • Bull BC One All Stars. The name Hong10 comes from using a Korean language homonym and an English language pun. The second syllable of his name, Yul (but...
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  • England: "the mimicry of prayers, liturgies, manuals and grammars, the mad homonyms, especially biting ones such as 'Loud' for 'Lord', which both [Joyce and...
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  • magazine Private Eye.[citation needed] Ted Grocer Heath Big Jim Sunny Jim, a homonym of "Sonny Jim", used to patronise an inexperienced person, and to refer...
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    the Cao Wei state in 266. The Chinese term for "trough", cao (槽), is a homonym of the family name Cao (曹), while the three horses represented Sima Yi...
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