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Noun(1) two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings(2) two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

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(1) There is one obligatory element of the New Year's feast all over China, and that is a whole fish, because the Chinese phrase u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510have fishu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb (you yu) is a homonym of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510have surplusu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, so eating it is supposed to augur well for the new year.(2) This is clearly an error as Miller and Gurley's younger name could not have priority over Meek and Worthen's older name, unless it was a replacement name for a homonym .(3) When my first-grader Clare typed in u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510rowsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb for u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510rose,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb the device did not recognize the homonym .(4) Rhett Miller is king of the homonym and double meaning.(5) In 1895 C.S. Sargent assigned it the name R. michauxii to correct Michaux's use of a homonym and to honor its discoverer.(6) So much humor depends upon homonyms and creative mishearing.(7) Rather, I'm interested in homonymy - in particular, the word quire.(8) Though as Dave Heasman points out far too often, I still mix up homonyms .(9) Read aloud again, looking for word problems: missing words, wrong homonyms (their when you mean there), misspellings, grammatical errors, and confusing words.(10) Personally, I don't mind the more obscure homonyms , but when someone mixes up u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510rightu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510write,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb or u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510knightu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510night,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb it makes me really mad.(11) Some ambiguities are merely u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510chance homonymies u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb - as with the Greek word u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510kleisu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb which means both u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510boltu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510collar-boneu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(12) Turning from the CWA to that other Calgary writing group, the CWAu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac we discover just what a headache homonymous acronyms can be.(13) Here, she's playing off the homonymic quality of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510pollu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510pole.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb(14) Actually, what's also more disturbing than misspellings is people mixing up their homonyms .(15) Homonyms can present an especially difficult problem because they sound alike, but the different spellings mean different things.(16) Obviously, u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510complimentu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510complementu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb are homonyms .