homograph
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- noun
- /ˈhoʊməˌɡræf/
- Specialized
- In Homographesis, Lee Edelman explores homosexual difference through the logic of homographs, words that look identical but have different meanings.
Examples
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When teaching vocabulary, it's important to highlight homographs to help students understand words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
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All of the dictionaries contain individual words only, and homographs are explicitly treated by the program through statistical weighting procedures, which are intended to partially correct for context (Hart, 2000a, 2000b).
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Students are in need of assistance dealing with the following: homograph and homonym.
Academic text (2015) -
Not sure if it's relevant or not (I suspect not), but the English homograph has come up for discussion in the past.
Blog text (24) -
Wetlandernw: I think I've missed that homograph discussion in the past...
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Personally, I think that the homograph is just a red herring, but I guess we'll find out in D3.
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Criminals also commonly use homograph attacks that exploit the visual similarity of characters; for example, bankofthevvest.com uses two v's to look like a w.
Academic text (2012) -
The word 'lead' is a common homograph because it can mean both a type of metal and the act of guiding someone.
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In English, a homograph like 'tear' can refer to a drop of liquid from the eye or the action of ripping something.
Synonyms
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7.6
A word with the same spelling or sound as another word but a different meaning
Surface Forms
Morphology
homograph = graph (semi-transparent) = homo + graph
The word is built from the combining form 'homo-' meaning 'same' and 'graph' meaning 'writing', which gives a broadly recognizable clue to its sense, though the specific lexical term is technical.
Etymology
The word homograph comes from Greek parts homo- meaning 'same' and -graph meaning 'written', the same -graph you see in photograph. So a homograph is a word that is written the same as another word but has a different meaning, and sometimes a different pronunciation.