A homophone (/ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning and sometimes also...
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British Homophone was a record company, based in Great Britain that operated between 1921 and 1985. Incorporated on 3 August 1921 as a private company...
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"Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones, substitutes another (usually...
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Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original...
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Homophony (disambiguation) (redirect from Homophonic)
Look up homophony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homophony and Homophonic are from the Greek ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos), literally 'same sounding,' from...
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homographs—words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling)—or both...
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amount of homophones in the language to form puns, and they have become an important component of Chinese culture. In Chinese, homophones are used for...
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Homograph (redirect from Heterographic homophone)
with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym"...
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dictionary. De Ligt is a Dutch surname. It is the Old Dutch spelling and homophone of "de licht" meaning "the light one" and thus is a nickname for a slight...
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Substitution cipher (redirect from Homophonic substitution cipher)
sheet containing letter, syllable and word substitution tables, sometimes homophonic, that typically converted symbols into numbers. Originally the code portion...
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point Chinese netizens began to use the word for "river crab", a near homophone for "harmonious". In a further complication of meaning, sometimes aquatic...
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Homophony (redirect from Homophonic texture)
distinct harmonic functions to the soprano, bass and inner voices. A homophonic texture may be homorhythmic, which means that all parts have the same...
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Chinese homophones in lexical decision tasks have found an advantage for homophone processing in Chinese, and a disadvantage for processing homophones in English...
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Contronym (redirect from Homographic homophonic autantonym)
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings; such a word is also known as an antagonym, autoantonym, contranym, or Janus word. For example, the word...
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This is a list of homophonic abbreviations in the English language. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ad advantage...
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Pun (section Homophonic)
rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language. A pun differs from a...
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(polyphonic characters). Some syllables correspond to more than one character (homophonic characters). This article pays more attention to the sounds of modern...
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gramophone records from 1926 through 1935. The label was a subsidiary of Homophone Records. Lists of record labels Rust, Brian (1980). Brian Rust's Guide...
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simplification presents syllables as homophones which are not, and therefore exaggerates the number of homophones almost by a factor of four. For comparison:...
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ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. Sometimes a homophone can be used as a pun. When three or more meanings have been constructed...
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(死阿陸) Taiwan Chinese people Literally means "damned mainlanders". the homophonic numerical form of this phrase(426) is also frequently used. Siamtue (Thai:...
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carp) statues atop Nagoya Castle, also called shachi; this word is a homophone with the Japanese word for orca, a species formerly referred to as "grampus"...
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eventually evolve into Plug Wonder Why, which would be shortened to a homophone of the original, Plug Won.[citation needed] Mercenary – Derived from the...
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Commonly misspelled English words (section Homophones)
participle) and "red". This list includes only a few homophones although incorrect use of homophones is a very common error; the following words from the...
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Ngo as Dylan Tsang Siu-yan (曾紹仁; homophone to 真小人, the real villain) Alycia Chan as Eliza Kam Ping-miu (金萍梅; homophone to classic novel 金瓶梅 Jin Ping Mei)...
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large number of homographs (different meanings for a given spelling) and homophones (different meanings for a given pronunciation). Kakekotoba (掛詞) or "pivot...
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animal with names vaguely referring to Chinese profanities (utilizing homophones and characters using different tones). Eventually, images, videos (such...
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born Zhen Yinglian (甄英蓮, a homophone with "deserving pity"), the kidnapped and lost daughter of Zhen Shiyin (甄士隱, a homophone with "Hiding the truth"),...
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