A homophone (/ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning and sometimes also...
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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...
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"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...
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Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original...
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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...
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point Chinese netizens began to use the word for "river crab", a near homophone for "harmonious". In a further complication of meaning, sometimes aquatic...
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Homophony (disambiguation) (redirect from Homophonic)
Look up homophony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homophony and Homophonic are from the Greek ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos), literally 'same sounding,' from...
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Substitution cipher (redirect from Homophonic substitution cipher)
sheet containing letter, syllable and word substitution tables, sometimes homophonic, that typically converted symbols into numbers. Originally the code portion...
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homographs—words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling)—or both...
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Homograph (redirect from Heterographic homophone)
with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym"...
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