Definition of Homographs. Meaning of Homographs. Synonyms of Homographs

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Definition of Homographs

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 Homographs from wikipedia

- from nouns: Many homographs in Old Chinese also exist in Middle Chinese. Examples of homographs in Middle Chinese are: Many homographs in Old Chinese and...
- 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...
- look alike and are known as homographs (or homoglyphs). Spoofing attacks based on these similarities are known as homograph spoofing attacks. For example...
- homophones (though not homographs). A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones—that is...
- Linguistics portal List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs Heterography and homography Homograph Polysemy Translingualism Dijkstra, Ton (2007). "Task...
- called interlingual homographs. Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely...
- readings of characters when trying to "sound out" an unrecognized word. Homographs exist, which can sometimes be deduced from context, and sometimes cannot...
- different meanings in American and British English (M–Z) List of English homographs Lists of English words List of works with different titles in the United...
- pronunciation for the same characters representing "Tokyo", making it a kanji homograph. Some surviving official English do****ents use the spelling "Tokei"; however...
- (computer vision), a mapping relating perspective images of the same scene, homograph, a word written the same but with different meaning, or heterography and...