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Title: Homonymy


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Homonymy
  • (?????)

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Homophones(Homophony) ???????
  • bare/bear, pair/pare, raise/raze,
  • meat/meet, flour/flower, pale/pail,
  • sew/so, lesson/lessen, night/knight,
  • knead/need, sole/soul, tale/tail
  •     Everybody kneads it!
  • (Slogan of a Flour Company)

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b. Homonyms(?????)
  • cf.  Why are trees often mistaken for
  • dogs?  (Because of their bark.)
  •     Disney Left!
  •     Clean Restrooms 8 Miles
  • Judy can take the test.
  • Judy will can the peaches tomorrow.
  • Judy will fill the can.

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Homograph (Homonymy) ?????
  •     right, ear, mole, bank, pupil, fan
  • (??? ???)
  •   cf. Polysemy ???
  •            mouth ?, ??? (????)
  • music ??, ??
  • rot ??, ????, ????

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Heteronym(???????)
  • bass bæs, bes
  • bow ba?, bo
  • dove Vdov(dived), Nd?v
  • lead lid, led
  • sow so, saw
  • tear te?, ti?
  • wind wind, waynd, etc.

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Hyponyms(???)
  • Subordinate hyponyms
  • Superordinate hyponyms
  • Co-hyponyms
  • color feline musical instrument
  • red yellow pink guitar piano
    violin horn
  • lion tiger cat puma

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Retronyms
  • (coinage, ???? ???)
  • day baseball, silent movie, surface mail,
  • whole milk, skim milk

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metonym
  • (???)
  • Crown representing king, kingdom
  • Diamond baseball
  • Gridiron football
  • Manhatan trade center
  • Washington, ??, Rodeo street
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