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2. Homonym - Wikipedia

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   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 right). A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a ...

3. 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 ...

4. File:Homograph homophone venn diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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   This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Homograph homophone venn diagram.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL 2009-06-28T09:00:19Z Blazotron 944x694 (36481 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=This is an Euler diagram showing the relationships between pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of words, for example, homographs, homonyms, homophones, heteronyms, and ...

5. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...

6. Homophone - Wikipedia

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   Some are homonyms, such as basta, which can either mean 'enough' or 'coarse', and some exist because of homophonous letters. For example, the letters b and v are pronounced exactly alike, so the words basta (coarse) and vasta (vast) are pronounced identically. [17] Other homonyms are spelled the same, but mean different things in different genders.

7. Category:Homonymy - Wikipedia

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8. 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.

9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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   Emojis are actual pictures, whereas emoticons are typographic displays of a facial representation, e.g. :-). epitome is used to mean a typical or ideal example of something. epidemy is an epidemic disease. eponymous is used to describe something that gives its name to something else, not something that receives the name of something else.