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...

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...

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Great Again" (MAGA); also appearing as "magat", "magats"; the term is a homophone of "maggot" Search for "magat" on Wikipedia. BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20)...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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...

use this method are called homophonic ciphers, some of these ciphers are the Hill Cipher and Playfair Cipher. Homophonic ciphers can be decrypted to...

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'),...

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...

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

large number of homographs (different meanings for a given spelling) and homophones (different meanings for a given pronunciation). Kakekotoba (掛詞) or "pivot...

on the principles of homophonic parallelism (chords based around a leading melody that follow its rhythm and contour), homophonic polyphony (independent...

traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival, but because the name is a homophone for reunion (traditional Chinese: 團圓; simplified Chinese: 团圆; pinyin:...

"fish" (魚) is commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance" (餘), Yúshēng (魚生) is interpreted as a homophone for Yúshēng (餘升), meaning an increase in...