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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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    and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. The symbolic meanings of the number four...
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  • sovereignty for individual regions, so that the Republic of the United Seven Netherlands would not yield to authoritarianism. Instead of a sovereigns...
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    explicitly defined by the Code as being homonyms. Otherwise the one-letter difference rule applies. In species, primary homonyms are those with the same genus and...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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    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...
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    1871 (= homonym Salacia Hübner, 1823; = Heteroscada Schatz, 1886) Sais Hübner, 1816 Forbestra Fox, 1967 Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807 (= homonym Nereis Hübner...
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  • British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin. Robert Browning famously misused the term in his...
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    of Culhuacan took the form of a 'bent' or 'curved' hill (a play on the homonym col- in Nahuatl, meaning "bent, twisted", e.g. as if by old age). Some...
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    2018. Known for his creative lyrical ability—which often uses punchlines, homonyms, word play—and braggadocio, Carter's music often deals with the subjects...
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    grapes is restricted to eight metric tons per hectare for Dogliani and seven for Dogliani Superiore. Furthermore, to qualify for Superiore status, the...
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    installing, assembling' (the latter borrowed from French). Homograph Homonym Synonym Shibboleth "Common Heteronyms In Chinese". chinesevoyage.org. 10...
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    as a binomial compound. Van Gulik distinguishes nao 猱 "gibbon" from the homonym nao 獶 "monkey" (with a you 憂 phonetic replacing the uncommon 夒 in nao 獿)...
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  • Jiangsu province, China, "the famous flower of Yangtze River", Chinese homonym of the Yangtze River JPL · 5384 5385 Kamenka 1975 TS3 Kamenka (Kamianka)...
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    Latin-script alphabets in other languages, diacritics may distinguish between homonyms, such as the French là ("there") versus la ("the"), which are both pronounced...
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    name, painted on the aircraft just aft of the cockpit windows, was a near homonym of "customer obsession," an Amazon leadership principle. The aircraft had...
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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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    Hence, the Chinese character for Jun in Lee's name was changed to the homonym 振 instead, to avoid naming taboo in Chinese tradition.[citation needed]...
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    be titled 11:11, revealing the album's concept being connected to the homonym numerological belief. Moreover, he shared that the album will contain 11...
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    used in certain countries, e.g., Romania, to distinguish from the endonym/homonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români). In Norway, Romani is used exclusively...
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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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    adjective maius, maior "larger, greater". Originally, she may have been a homonym independent of the Greek Maia, whose myths she absorbed through the Hellenization...
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    rank-based codes are independent from each other, so there are many inter-code homonyms (the same name used for different organisms, often for an animal and for...
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  • and music producer Charles Talar, he produced and released it under his homonym record label. The song's chorus became a popular chant among PSG supporters...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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    history, a past that she has left physically behind. He notes that Sun is a homonym for Son, and that Wheatley intended a double reference to Christ. Wheatley...
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    archivist-paleographer Arthur Bertrand de Broussillon points out that this is a homonym error : Charles d'Estouville did indeed marry a Marie de Craon, but she...
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  • series), "Neither Brute Nor Human" (Black Widowers series), "The Fourth Homonym" (Black Widowers series), "The Eye of the Beholder" (Azazel series), "The...
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    ("mousetrap") is derived from mus ("mouse") and decipula ("trap"), while the homonym word muscipula ("flytrap") is derived from musca ("fly") and decipula....
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    derived from Kala, which is mentioned quite differently in Sanskrit. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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