homonymic
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˌhɒməˈnɪmɪk/
- In "The Way of the Wind," for example, Swinburne typically employs the most controversial form of rime riche, homonymic rhyme, by rhyming "swallow... swallow," where the first word is a bird and the latter is a verb.
- homonymic clash
Examples
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In all likelihood, the homonymic clash between the two verbs at issue arose late and was at most the final step in the death of acender, a verb which may have already been mortally weakened by its rivalry with its synonym encender.
Academic text (1995) -
Presumably, the homonymic quality of the words is responsible for the transference.
Academic text (2015) -
Here, Swinburne does separate the homonymic rime riche, as prosodists such as Dobson mandated.
Academic text (2017) -
I fix the agreement between nouns and verbs, repair the homonymic misspellings, change flaunt to flout, insert periods, and start new sentences.
Fiction book (2002) -
Legal historians connect the American TWEA with the homonymic British war regulations of 1915-1916, which introduced a comprehensive system of sanctions against Germany, including blacklisting persons and entities of third countries suspected of acting in the interest of Germany. (26)
Academic text (2018) -
In linguistics, the study of homonymic words helps us understand how one word can have multiple meanings.
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The homonymic nature of 'bark' as both a tree covering and a dog's sound can cause confusion in written texts.
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Teachers often explain homonymic relationships to students by using examples like 'bat', which can refer to a flying mammal or a piece of sports equipment.
Synonyms
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9.3
Words with the same spelling or sound but different meanings
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Homonymic comes from Greek parts homo- meaning 'same' and onoma meaning 'name'. So, it describes words that share the 'same name' or sound but have different meanings, like 'right' and 'write'.