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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    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 new meaning.

  4. Homophone - Wikipedia

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    For example, "Cinto" is a homophone for 9 other words, totalizing 10.(Oxford Languages) Although they are homophones, most of them are also homographs. Cinto - a strip of varying width made of fabric, leather, or other material, worn around the waist and tied with a bow or fastened with a buckle or other closure.

  5. Homograph - Wikipedia

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    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 also be pronounced differently, [ 2 ] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...

  6. Interlingual homograph - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... For example the word "done" is an adjective in English (pronounced /dʌn/), a verb in Spanish (present subjunctive form of ...

  7. Chinese character sounds - Wikipedia

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    For example: “馬、瑪、碼、螞” are all pronounced mǎ (ma3). Homophonic characters in the broad sense means that the initials and finals are the same, but the tones can be different. For example, “媽(mā), 麻(má), 馬(mǎ), 駡(mà)” are homophones in a broad sense. Usually people use homophonic characters in the narrow sense. [21]

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...