1) Homonym 2) Literary technique 3) One has one 4) Yew to you
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1) Pun
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A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. 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 to, two, and too. Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and ho.....
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• (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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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.
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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
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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.
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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, 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 grou...
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Homophone is when two or more words have the same sound, but different meanings. They may be spelled the same or differently.
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words which have the same sound as another but different meaning or different spelling: read/reed; pair/pear; right/write/rite. A homonym.
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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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Word that sounds the same as another but has a different spelling and meaning. Examples are
air and
heir,
right and
write, and
son and
sun. Homophones are a source of spelling errors. The student needs to distinguish particularly betwee...
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a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air. · a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.
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Any set of words pronounced the same way, e.g. English poor and pour /pɔ:/ (Received Pronunciation) and German Ferse and Verse.
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a word pronounced the same with another meaning or spelling
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