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...

both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym" may be applied to words with the same writing...

(/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...

headword) and enter homonyms as separate headwords (usually with a numbering convention such as ¹bear and ²bear). According to the Oxford English Dictionary...

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...

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...

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...

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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"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...

correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs...

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...

such as plurals and literary technique, distinctions among like words (homonyms and synonyms), and the use of foreign terms, the dictionary became the...

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)...

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...

way but which have different lexical meanings. Paronyms contrast with homonyms, which are words with different meaning having the same pronunciation or...

two most frequent combinations orthographically required to distinguish homonyms in Bulgarian and Macedonian: Ѐ, Ѝ; a few Old and New Church Slavonic combinations:...

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...

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...

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...

to Bafut, Nso, Kom, Nkwen, and the smaller Tikar people (with the same homonym) found in the Adamawa Region. They are known to be great artists, artisans...

Jiangsu province, China, "the famous flower of Yangtze River", Chinese homonym of the Yangtze River JPL · 5384 5385 Kamenka 1975 TS3 Kamenka (Kamianka)...

British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin. Robert Browning famously misused the term in his...

that Elohim "Divinity" and elohim "gods" are commonly understood to be homonyms. One modern theory suggests that the notion of divinity underwent radical...

of the story of Amnon and Tamar. Some interpreters have noted that the homonym levav (לֵבָב leváv) means "heart", and the verbal form of l-v-v (ל־ב־ב‎...

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...

1858 †Fagus aspera (Berry) Brown, 1944 †Fagus aspera Chelebaeva, 2005 (jr homonym) †Fagus atlantica Unger, 1847 †Fagus attenuata Göppert, 1855 †Fagus aurelianii...

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...

meaning "pipe" or "tube" and refers to the hollow branches of S. vulgaris. Homonym Syringa Tourn. ex Adans. is a heterotypic synonym of Philadelphus. Lilacs...

saw the vowel in many [eː] words change to [iː], so that meat became a homonym of meet, while conceive now rhymed with believe. Early Modern English spelling...