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    Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He is a contemporary R&B musician, who has often been...
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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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    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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  • including hyponymy and hypernymy, meronomy, polysemy, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. It also relates to concepts like connotation (semiotics) and collocation...
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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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  • "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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    analysis of its avian senior homonym [sic]". Species Diversity. 10: 63–68. doi:10.12782/specdiv.10.63. Laumer, Christopher E.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2017)...
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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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    ("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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  • the top ten in several countries. The album's title is derived from the homonym numerological belief, and is connected to the fact of it being the singer's...
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    umbrellas were usually given as dowry, due to the "paper" (纸) and "child" (子) homonym in the language (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́), symbolizing a blessing for the woman...
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    indistinguishable from Шш. The reform also created many homographs and homonyms, which used to be spelled differently. Examples: есть/ѣсть (to be/eat)...
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  • Orthanc had meanings in Sindarin and Rohirric; but it is also a synonym and homonym in Old English, making Tolkien's claim look like a mistake. Tolkien made...
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  • to Christopher Mah (2009), WoRMS, Asterias solaris Carpenter, 1856 is a synonym of Heliaster cumingi (Gray, 1840); this species is not the homonym Asterias...
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  • Bird on a Wire. To prepare for his role, James Woods followed his quasi-homonym, NYPD lieutenant James Wood, on the job, wearing a bulletproof vest. Wood...
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    Queen of Jhansi, of Vrindavan Lal Verma, 1946, which inspired the 1953 homonym film The Tiger and the Flame. Nightrunners of Bengal, a 1951 novel in English...
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    Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...
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    1260: 1–25. Christopher J. Dixon (2010). "Spiralifrons, replacement name for Gurneya Brtek, 1996 (Branchiopoda, Thamnocephalidae), junior homonym of Gurneya...
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    considered a food of good luck in both Laos and Thailand because it has homonyms that mean 'lucky' in both languages, derived from लाभ in Sanskrit. Laab...
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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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    Albanian sound changes. The Macedonian name of the river is Дрим, Drim. Homonym rivers are Drino between southern Albania and northwestern Greece, and...
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  • Nolbu, or listed their surnames as either Bak (homonym of the Korean word for gourd) or Yeon (homonym of the hanja character meaning swallow), which are...
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    Code of Zoological Nomenclature published in 1999 the two names are not homonyms (and if they were Lanius melanocephalos would have priority as it was applied...
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    300 homonyms or synonyms: over 250 for Chasselas Blanc, about 300 for Pinot Noir, and close to 350 for Muscat à Petits Grains Blancs. Often homonyms or...
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    are explained by him as perfect homonyms, denoting two or more absolutely distinct things; others, as imperfect homonyms, employed in some instances figuratively...
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  • film". It said "oftentimes Pratchett’s clever language jokes [such as homonyms] are lost in the dialogue of the screen since the visual cue of the printed...
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    "Fulani | people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-10-27. The homonym Fulani is also used by the Manding peoples, being the diminutive form of...
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  • 1038/s42003-021-02017-0. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 8079395. PMID 33907305. Brochu, Christopher A. (2010-07-14). "A new alligatorid from the lower Eocene Green River...
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    performed by Solomon's fleet (2 Chronicles 9:21). The Hebrew term has a homonym, tarshish, occurring seven times and translated beryl in older English...
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    a scientific name, Alauda obscura in 1790, but his name was an invalid homonym, the same name being used a year earlier by Gmelin for a different bird...
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