Definition of Homophones. Meaning of Homophones. Synonyms of Homophones

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Definition of Homophones

Homophone
Homophone Hom"o*phone, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.] 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. --Gliddon. 2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

Meaning of Homophones from wikipedia

- Look up homophone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homophone.com – a list of American homophones with a searchable database. Reed's homophones – a book...
- "Homophones" is a word game in which a player creates a sentence or phrase containing a pair or larger set of homophones, substitutes another (usually...
- (though only the first two are homophones); so are the words see (vision) and sea (body of water), because they are homophones (though not homographs). A...
- Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original...
- controlling for familiarity, they found a processing advantage for homophones over non-homophones in ****anese, similar to what has previously been found in Chinese...
- from ὁμός (homós), "same" and φωνή (phōnē), "sound". It may refer to: Homophoneswords with the same pronunciation. Homophony − in music is a texture...
- British Homophone was a record company, based in Great Britain that operated between 1921 and 1985. Incorporated on 3 August 1921 as a private company...
- amount of homophones in the language to form puns, and they have become an important component of Chinese culture. In Chinese, homophones are used for...
- participle) and "red". This list includes only a few homophones although incorrect use of homophones is a very common error; the following words from the...
- encryption. Stahl constructed the cipher in such a way that the number of homophones for a given character was in proportion to the frequency of the character...