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2. Homophone - Wikipedia

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   Homophone. Venn diagram showing the relationships between homophones (blue circle) and related linguistic concepts. 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 in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, for example ...

3. Homonym - Wikipedia

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   Homonym. In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either homographs —words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones —words that have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling)—or both. [ 1] Using this definition, the words row (propel with oars), row (a linear arrangement) and row (an argument ...

4. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same ( homophones ), or they may be pronounced differently ( heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second.

5. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A heteronym is a homograph that is not a homophone, a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word with the same spelling. Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways. "Heterophone" literally just means "different sound", and this term is sometimes applied to words that are ...

6. Homograph - Wikipedia

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   Homograph. Venn diagram showing the relationships between homographs (yellow) and related linguistic concepts. A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must ...

7. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely ...

8. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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   List of forms of word play. This is a list of techniques used in word play . Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words. Engrish. Chinglish. Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings. Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings. Homophone: words with same sounds but with ...

9. Interlingual homograph - Wikipedia

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   Interlingual homograph. An interlingual homograph is a word that occurs in more than one written language, but which has a different meaning or pronunciation in each language. [1] [2] For example the word "done" is an adjective in English (pronounced /dʌn/), a verb in Spanish (present subjunctive form of donar) and a noun in Czech (vocative ...