Look up: homophone

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   homophone
   Plural form: homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings e.g. their, there.
   Example: She rode her bike along the road.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
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   Homophone
   Two or more words which are pronounced the same but have different spelling and meaning e.g. 'saw' (to cut) and 'sore' (hurting). Many puns are based on homophones.
   Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of
   
   
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   homophone
   [n] - two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
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   Homophone
   words which have the same sound as another but different meaning or different spelling: read/reed; pair/pear; right/write/rite. A homonym.
   Found on http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary
   
   
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   homophone
   homophones are homonyms having the same phonic form,ex.:son-sun Category: Language and literature
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Homophone
   Hom'o·phone noun [ Confer French homophone . See Homophonous .] 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon. 2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl ; bare and bear ; rite , write , right , and w ...
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   homophone
   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)
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   Homophone
   A `homophone` is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as `rose` (flower) and `rose` (past tense of `rise`), or differently, such as `carat`, `caret`, and `carrot`, or `two` and `too`. A short example of a homophone are the words `know` and `no`. Notice that they are pronounced the same, but both have different meanings. A homophone is a specific type of `homonym`. The t...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone
   
   
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   Homophone
   • (n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright. • (n.) A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
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    homophone
    homophone, homophonous 1. One of two or more words pronounced alike ('sound-alikes') but different in meaning or derivation and spelling (as all and awl; to, too, and two; rite, write, right, and wright; as well as, cite, sight, and site); also called a homonym. 2. A character or group of characters pronounced the same as another character or group.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf