homonym vs homophone
Definitions
noun
- two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings
Examples
I didn't think the theme fill was that strong, in that two were puns (MONGREL EMPIRE and the delightful MUTTVILLE NINE) while the third, CUR CURRICULUM, seemed to be just a kind of homonymic construction.
Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on.
But none of these homonymous duos served simultaneously.
Definitions
noun
- two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Examples
But there are huge numbers of homophones that are also homographs: pen ‘writing implement’, pen ‘enclosure for animals’, and pen ‘penitentiary’, to choose a textbook example.
Similarly, English man 'male' and Persian /man/ 'I' are interlingual homophones.
I like my mores like I like my marriageson paper because polyamory is not bigamy more or less it is homophone homology the more the merrier love overturns amorphism
