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	Homonym Information
		A HOMONYM is a word that has the same pronunciation or spelling (or both) as another word, but a different meaning.
		Homonyms that are spelt and pronounced the same – such as mean (intend) and mean (miserly) – are both homophones and homographs.
		Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated (rather than just different), or that the words must have a different origin.
	www.goodeatsfanpage.com /CollectedInfo/homonym_information.htm (560 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Homonym -
		Homonyms are words that sound the same, but have a different meaning.
		Some words are homonyms for some speakers, but not for others, such as pin and pen, which are "correctly" pronounced differently, but not by all speakers.
		Homonyms are mostly curiosities, of limited linguistic interest compared to the strong functional roles of antonyms and synonyms.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ho/Homonym (277 words)

	Homonym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Homonyms are words which have the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning.
		There is a fish called a fluke, a part of a whale called a fluke and a stroke of luck called a fluke, but these are three separate lexemes with separate etymologies that all happen to share one form.
		Homograph disambiguation is critically important in Speech synthesis, but otherwise, homonyms are mostly curiosities, of limited linguistic interest compared to the strong functional roles of antonyms and synonyms.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/h/ho/homonym.html (346 words)

	HOMONYM FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Homonyms (in Greek ''homoios'' = identical and ''onoma'' = name) are words that have the same phonetic form (homophones) or orthographic form (homographs) but unrelated meaning.
		The first homonyms that one learns in English are probably the homophones ''to'', ''too'', and ''two'', but the sentence "Too much to do in two days" would confuse no one.
		A later homonym is "illegitimate" and is not to be used unless conserved.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /homonym (473 words)

	Homonyms and Grammatical Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Second, homonyms from the same grammatical class might freely enter English, but their frequency of usage might be relatively low compared with homonyms from different grammatical classes.
		Homonym pairs were excluded from further analysis if one or both of its members did not appear in the Francis and Kucera (1982) word frequency norms.
		An example involving same class homonyms (original homonym in italics) is "Each resident is given a few square (feet/feat) of much needed privacy." An example involving different class homonyms is "She turns a foot on the (heel/heal) of one of those clogs." The full set of 240 sentences was divided into four 60 item lists.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~kellym/homonym.html (3506 words)

	101 Homonym Tips - Booklet #6
		There is no fl-or-white definition of 'homonym.'" According to a variety of reference books where we looked up the word, some included homographs and others included homophones.
		Broadly speaking, homonyms are separate words that happen to be identical in form, and synonyms are separate words that happen to mean the same thing.
		HOMONYMS Homonyms are "words with the same pronunciation as another, but with a different meaning, origin, and usually spelling", Webster's New World Dictionary, 1995.
	www.punctuationtips.com /homonyms.html (676 words)

	homonym - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Homonym, homophone, and homograph designate words that are identical to other words in spelling or pronunciation, or both, while differing from them in meaning and usually in origin.
		Homonym, however, is used more frequently than homophone, a technical term, when referring to words with the same pronunciation without regard to spelling.
		Homonym is also used as a synonym of homograph.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/homonym (443 words)

	Homonym Home
		Homonym is a word pronounced the same as another, but spelled differently.
		What the reader does discover, in Homonym, is a richly descriptive and tragically sincere book of lyrical prose depicting one man's journey as he searches for his identity and the adversities he witnesses while on his path toward hope.
		DeBonis successfully paints a canvas of the aftermath of the Sept.1l attacks in "New Ash" and "Homonym." In his poems that confront the subjects of AIDS, DeBonis' voice and style remain thoughtful as he realistically describes the loss of loved ones.
	www.glbpubs.com /hom.html (1134 words)

	Glossary
		If there are only two homonyms, the junior homonym is the most recently described homonym; if there are more than two homonyms, the junior homonyms are all but the oldest described homonym which is the senior homonym, e.g., Eriococcus mancus Ferris, 1955 is the junior homonym and Eriococcus mancus (Maskell, 1897) is the senior homonym.
		A name that is assigned to replace a name that is a junior homonym, e.g., Onceropyga Turner, 1904 is the valid name and Onceropyga Ferris, 1955 is the junior homonym and must be replaced; Hoy (1963) proposed the replacement name Oregmopyga.
		The oldest described homonym, e.g., Onceropyga Turner, 1904 is the senior homonym and Onceropyga Ferris, 1955 is the junior homonym.
	www.sel.barc.usda.gov /scalenet/glossary.htm (856 words)

	Method and apparatus for processing languages - Patent 4468756
		displaying the set of homonyms from the third library file corresponding to the displayed homonym set identifying code, whereby the correct transcribable character code for each spoken word may be easily and quickly identified.
		The homonym set identifying codes may be thought of as access or address codes for a third, machine-readable library file of sets of homonyms.
		The homonyms within each set will also be stored as transcribable character codes, although they will be accessed as groups, rather than individually as is the case in the second library file.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4468756.html (6770 words)

	Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms
		I consider homonyms to be the prime numbers of the English language.
		Some homonym pairs have simple variants, often plurals, like "lay" and "lei" have "lays" and "leis." But in the world of homonyms, simplicity is often elusive.
		The rule I use is: if the first letter of any homonym is different from the first letter of the first homonym in the set, then there will be a "See:" reference for that homonym, pointing back to the set.
	www.cooper.com /alan/homonym.html (1403 words)

	Homonym Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.
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	homonym.know-library.net (834 words)

	Roger's Reference - A Complete Set Of Homonym / Homophone Dictionary And Word List!
		While it's not unique to the human species, our languages are probably the most structured and complex of all animals.
		Our flagship product is Roger's Reference: The Complete Homonym and Homophone Dictionary, the most comprehensive dictionary of its type on the web, with 7627 words.
		Read about how homophones and homonyms are the backbone of an amusing and thoughtful rhetorical device called 'chiasmus' (rest your mouse pointer on the word to see what I mean).
	www.rogersreference.com (1175 words)

	International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
		15), is illegitimate if it is a later homonym, that is, if it is spelled exactly like a name based on a different type that was previously and validly published for a taxon of the same rank (see also Art.
		A later homonym is unavailable for use even if the earlier homonym is illegitimate or is otherwise generally treated as a synonym.
		Likewise, if an author in an effectively published text substitutes other names for all but one of these homonyms, the homonym for the taxon that is not renamed is treated as having priority.
	www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de /iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0058Ch5RejoNa53.htm (989 words)

	TechNotes: Teaching Writing in an Online World: What Causes Homonym Errors?
		As a person who makes dozens of homonym errors a day in any one draft then send writing that I do, this kind of wondering outloud is a welcome diversion.
		In Microsoft Office, which I use at work, the spell checker comes with a grammar checker, and while it won't catch homonyms, it will often isolate a sentence where there is a homonym error, and I'll see that error because the sentence is isolated.
		By search for your homonym hangups, and then changing the words from plain text to a bold font or a different font, and then printing, you'll have a visual aid when proofing your own hard copy.
	ncarbone.blogspot.com /TeachingWriting/2004/11/what-causes-homonym-errors.html (953 words)

	Machine Learning/Decision Trees/C4.5 Example 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Definition: a homonym is a word with the same pronounciation as another but with a different meaning, origin, and, usually, spelling.
		Problem: using three collected sets of instances containing homonyms, learn rules to determine, given a window of the five previous words (classified according to their respective Part Of Speech), which spelling of each homonym is preferred.
		Otherwise, by default, spell the homonym as "in".
	www.cs.uregina.ca /~hamilton/courses/831/notes/ml/dtrees/c4.5/c4.5_prob3.html (265 words)

	Homonyms Lesson Plan
		The word homonym is currently most often used as a synonym for homophone.
		However, some teachers, writers, and wordsmiths still like to differentiate between the two, using homonym to refer only to words with the same sound and the same spelling, but with different meanings, such as bear (the animal) and bear (carry).
		After whatever discussion these questions generate, define the word homonym, write it on the board, and explain that the word homophone (write it on the board as well) is generally used interchangeably with homonym.
	www.cloudnet.com /~edrbsass/justalittlehorse.htm (756 words)

	Homonyms - Due Ewe No Witch Whirred Qualifies?
		Homonym: "a word having the same sound, or the same spelling and sound, as another which has a different meaning, e.g.
		Homonym: "a word like another in sound and sometimes in spelling, but different in meaning, as meat and meet.
		Surely it would be much simpler to just define homonyms as words that are spelt the same and which sound the same, but have different meanings (following Oxford), while words that are spelt differently and sound the same, and have different meanings, are homophones (following MacQuarie).
	rogersreference.com /rrhomonyms.htm (849 words)

	TSB » Homonym words » Letters Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		two meanings, or of different words that are alike or nearly alikethese neat puns possible is the homonym, which is one of a group of words pronounced and/or spelt indifferent meanings.
		The use of a homonym generates ambiguity, that isof punning.
		modelling” which is asso-ciated with the homonym ontological category research area.
	www.tiffanysheaband.com /italian-modular/charms/letters-words/homonym-words.html (519 words)

	Download Homonym Madness from Files32 : Games : Puzzles and Mind Teasers - Get your beta freeware and shareware ...
		Homonym Madness is a very challenging and fun puzzle game.
		Homonym Madness is a puzzle game where you have to determine the word that fits both definitions provided.
		Homonym Madness is very challenging and will help you broaden your vocabulary.
	www.files32.com /info18057.htm (416 words)

	HOMONYMY
		Their lexicological focus is reflected in virtually all glossaries for special languages -- they also follow the orthographic (semantic) paradigm, with only an occasional step towards the logical classification of concepts, as one may see by viewing specialized glossaries.
		Perhaps strict homonym could represent the narrower sense (1) in A, and loose homonym the broader sense (2) in (A, B and C).
		Thus Japanese words may be both homonyms and allonyms at the same time: the former applies to the Katakana version which can represent different words having the same pronunciation and written form -- but they are allonyms when represented by ideograms each of which is unique.
	webdata.soc.hawaii.edu /fredr/homonymy.htm (4985 words)

	The Orchid Lady's Orchid Encyclopedia - C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From 1912 to 1972 many species of genus Cleisostoma were generally placed in genus Sarcanthus.
		Garay's 1972 discussions in the Botanical Museum Leaflets of Harvard University however, made the case that these species properly belong to the genus Cleisostoma and that Sarcanthus is a later homonym.
		Colax is an illegitimate later homonym (the name was previously given to a synonym of Lycaste).
	www.orchidlady.com /encyclopedia/c.html (3755 words)

	Homonym in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		The first homonyms that one learns in English are probably to, too, and two (homophones), but the sentence "Too much to do in two days" would confuse no one.
		Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms, by Scholastic
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	www.tutorgig.com /ed/homophones (500 words)

	International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code) - Article 53
		15), is illegitimate if it is a later homonym, that is, if it is spelled exactly like a name based on a different type that was previously and validly published for a taxon of the same rank.
		Even if the earlier homonym is illegitimate, or is generally treated as a synonym on taxonomic grounds, the later homonym must be rejected.
		(1838) is a nomen conservandum and is therefore not to be rejected because of the existence of the earlier homonym Torreya Raf.
	www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de /iapt/nomenclature/code/tokyo-e/Art_53.htm (835 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This book plays on the wealth of homonyms (words which sound alike but mean different things) in the English language.
		The entire book is filled with this type of word play: the riddle, with the answer in homonyms nicely illustrated by Giulio Maestro.
		The illustrations keep the attention of the children who are too young read, even though they may not fully understand the joke embedded in the homonyms.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0899190863 (449 words)

	Chrysis.net - a web resource about Hymenoptera Chrysididae & Macrophotography
		If there are only two homonyms, the junior homonym is the most recently described homonym; if there are more than two homonyms, the junior homonyms are all but the oldest described homonym which is the senior homonym.
		A nomen nudum is not an available name, and therefore the same name may be made available later for the same or a different concept; in such a case it would take authorship and date from that act of establishment, not from any earlier publication as a nomen nudum.
		A name that is assigned to replace a name that is a junior homonym.
	www.chrysis.net /chrysis/resources/glossary_zoo.htm (913 words)

	OTS Software - Homonym Madness
		The Homonyms used in this game all have the same spelling but different definitions.
		As you will notice, when you begin Homonym Madness or select New Puzzle (F2) from the Puzzle Menu, the number of the current puzzle will be displayed in the Title Bar of the window.
		By registering, you will receive a version of the game that has 50 puzzles and you will be eligible to receive upgrades, bug fixes, etc. if they become available.
	www.otssoftware.com /hm.php (590 words)

	Lesson Exchange: Homonym Matching (Elementary, Language)
		Teacher will write many homonyms on 3x5 piece of one color paper, clearly with a marker, making sure that each homonym has a matching homonym written on the other color paper.
		Ask the students, one at a time, to come up to the board and place their homonym up next to the one that matches theirs.
		Pass out the homonyms printed on one color paper to 1/2 the students.
	www.teachers.net /lessons/posts/2883.html (173 words)

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