Definition of Homograph. Meaning of Homograph. Synonyms of Homograph

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Definition of Homograph

Homograph
Homograph Hom"o*graph, n. [Gr. "omo`grafos with the same letters; "omo`s the same + gra`fein to write.] (Philol.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

Meaning of Homograph from wikipedia

- A homograph (from the Gr****: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different...
- The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack (sometimes written as homoglyph attack) is a method used by malicious parties to deceive computer...
- In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either homographs—words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that...
- Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (homophones), or they may be pronounced...
- An interlingual homograph is a word that occurs in more than one written language, but which has a different meaning or pronunciation in each language...
- life) (both on'yomi). Multiple readings have given rise to a number of homographs, in some cases having different meanings depending on how they are read...
- acute accent may be used to mark stress – such as to distinguish between homographic words (e.g. замо́к [zamók, 'lock'] and за́мок [zámok, 'castle']), or...
- (computer vision), a mapping relating perspective images of the same scene, homograph, a word written the same but with different meaning, or heterography and...
- the same, they are homographs; if they are pronounced the same, they are homophones. Cross-linguistic or interlingual homographs or homophones sometimes...
- homophonous (/həˈmɒfənəs/). Homophones that are spelled the same are both homographs and homonyms. For example, the word read, in "He is well read" and in...