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  2. Homophone - Wikipedia

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    A homophone (/ ˈ h ɒ m ə f oʊ n, ˈ h oʊ m ə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain , reign , and rein .

  3. 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 , 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.

  4. Homonym - Wikipedia

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    A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones [1] —that is, they have identical spelling and pronunciation but different meanings. Examples include the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left ( past tense of leave ) and left (opposite of ...

  5. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    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 different meanings; Homophonic translation; Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a ...

  6. Homograph - Wikipedia

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    Words with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. 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 or pronunciation. Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields

  7. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo ...

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    "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity.

  8. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    In certain dialects, the two words are usually homophones because they are function words with reduced vowels, and this may cause speakers to confuse them. Standard : I like pizza more than lasagna. Standard : We ate dinner, then went to the movies.

  9. Homophones (game) - Wikipedia

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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 nonsensical) pair of words for the homophone pair, then reads the newly created sentence out loud. The object of the game is for the other players to deduce what the original homophone pair is.