homonym vs homophone
Definitions
noun
- two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings
Examples
I didn't think the theme fill was that strong, in that two were puns (MONGREL EMPIRE and the delightful MUTTVILLE NINE) while the third, CUR CURRICULUM, seemed to be just a kind of homonymic construction.
Based on the existing researches, this paper carries out homonymy research from different points of views, like lexicology, semantics, rhetoric, pragmatics, comparative linguistics and so on.
But none of these homonymous duos served simultaneously.
Definitions
noun
- two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Examples
You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term.
It is interesting to note that of the 18 homophones that were common to both experiments, the same response bias was observed in 16 of them.
