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    both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym" may be applied to words with the same writing...
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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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    (/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...
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    headword) and enter homonyms as separate headwords (usually with a numbering convention such as ¹bear and ²bear). According to the Oxford English Dictionary...
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    meanings. For example, one can record a song or keep a record of documents. Homonyms are words that have the same pronunciation and spelling but different meanings...
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  • Colemanballs Dundrearyism Error (linguistics) Freudian slip Goldwynisms Homonym Johnny Dangerously Mondegreen Mumpsimus Norm Crosby Trailer Park Boys "'Yogisms':...
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    "to rise". The older form styan is still used in Ulster Scots today. The homonym sty found in the combination pigsty has a slightly different origin, namely...
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  • like the Bauhaus diary, and is a play on the English homonym 'deform' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (deformed). Die Form is the primary project...
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  • Greek χάλιξ (khaliks, “pebble”). (It is not to be confused with the Latin homonym meaning heelbone (or calcaneus in modern medical Latin), which has an entirely...
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  • dictionary. A polyclinic (where poly means "many"; not to be confused with the homonym policlinic, where poli means "city" and which is sometimes used for a hospital's...
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    for all pans, including the traditional shallow pan used for cooking the homonym dish. The pan is made of polished or coated steel with two side handles...
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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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    correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs...
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    two most frequent combinations orthographically required to distinguish homonyms in Bulgarian and Macedonian: Ѐ, Ѝ; a few Old and New Church Slavonic combinations:...
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    to only one species. If a name is used more than once, it is called a homonym. Stability. Although stability is far from absolute, the procedures associated...
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    Lord", which forces one to interpret הוחל huchal not as "began" but as the homonym "profanated". In this light, Enosh suggests the notion of a humanity (Enoshut)...
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    such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the...
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  • share similarities in pronunciation or spelling. Paronyms contrast with homonyms, which are words with different meaning having the same pronunciation or...
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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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    Pun (section Homonymic)
    Walter Redfern summarized this type with his statement, "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms." For example, in George Carlin's phrase "atheism is a non-prophet...
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  • times has caused controversy in the United States due to it including the homonym "chink", which can be interpreted as an ethnic slur to refer to someone...
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    that Elohim "Divinity" and elohim "gods" are commonly understood to be homonyms. One modern theory suggests that the notion of divinity underwent radical...
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  • of the signifier, "signification." For the standard English word is a homonym of the Afro-American vernacular word. And, to compound the dizziness and...
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    in Chinese. Even though the sauce itself is made by stir-frying, this homonym does not carry over into the Classical Chinese term. The topping of the...
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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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  • called Species: proper, appellative, adjective, relative, quasi-relative, homonym, synonym, pheronym, dionym, eponym, national, interrogative, indefinite...
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  • including hyponymy and hypernymy, meronomy, polysemy, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. It also relates to concepts like connotation (semiotics) and collocation...
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    Retrieved 20 January 2022. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous...
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  • homophones in another. That means not that one of the phonemes is absent in the homonym accent but only that it is not contrastive in the same range of contexts...
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