A homophone (/ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled...

"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...

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...

Look up homophony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homophony and Homophonic are from the Greek ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos), literally 'same sounding,' from...

sheet containing letter, syllable and word substitution tables, sometimes homophonic, that typically converted symbols into numbers. Originally the code portion...

with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym"...

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...

Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original...

things, but have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation), or homophones—words that mean different things, but have the same pronunciation (regardless...

distinct harmonic functions to the soprano, bass and inner voices. A homophonic texture may be homorhythmic, which means that all parts have the same...

A contronym or contranym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done...

Chinese homophones in lexical decision tasks have found an advantage for homophone processing in Chinese, and a disadvantage for processing homophones in English...

point Chinese netizens began to use the word for "river crab", a near homophone for "harmonious". In a further complication of meaning, sometimes aquatic...

happened in Westview and how Harkness controlled him. His surname is a homophone of "Boner". The role was a nod to Peters's character Peter Maximoff in...

rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language. A pun differs from a...

homophone or an anagram. An example of a homophone clue is We hear twins shave (4) which is a clue for PARE, which means "shave" and is a homophone of...

"悦也" literally translates as "joy also" or "happy together", is the homophone of "越野" which means "offroad". In February 2023, the Chinese joint-venture...

meaning "abundance", originally was a homophone. Alternatively, 餘, meaning "over, more than", is now a true homophone, so the common Chinese New Year greeting...

gramophone records from 1926 through 1935. The label was a subsidiary of Homophone Records. Lists of record labels Rust, Brian (1980). Brian Rust's Guide...

Jidori is a Japanese homophone which may refer to: Jidori, (地鶏), literally "local chicken", chickens whose parents or one parent are native to Japan and...

commonly) Francine. (For most speakers, Francis and Frances are homophones or near homophones; a popular mnemonic for the spelling is "i for him and e for...

they are pronounced the same, they are homophones. Cross-linguistic or interlingual homographs or homophones sometimes include cognates; non-cognates...

and grammatical in Literary Chinese, but due to the number of Chinese homophones, it becomes difficult to understand in oral speech. In Mandarin, the poem...

Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings Homophonic translation Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or...

writing. Courtesy names often reflect the meaning of the given name or use homophonic characters, and were typically disyllabic after the Qin dynasty. The practice...

animal with a name vaguely referring to a Chinese profanity (utilizing homophones and characters having different tones). Eventually, images, videos (such...

Chinese dictionaries where characters are explained by use of a homophone or near-homophone. The practice is ancient, and is present in texts predating the...

no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases. The song's title, for example, is a homophone of "Mares eat oats". The song was first...

children or foreigners, and dictionaries—or to distinguish between near-homophones: па̀ра (pàra 'steam, vapour') and пара̀ (parà, 'cent, penny, money'),...

Anak (/ˈeɪnæk/; Hebrew: עֲנָק‎, homophone to a word for "giant, long neck, necklace"; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʕaˈnɔːq]) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible...