Sentence examples for homonymic from inspiring English sources

The word 'homonymic' is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings, such as "bank" (financial institution) and "bank" (to tilt or incline). Example: The English language has many homonymic words, which can lead to confusion and misunderstandings in communication.

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homonymic

adjective

Having the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning.

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As though in thrall to the homonymic force of his last name, Knott seemed to thrive on self-denial.

[email protected] The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Tuesday June 25 , 2002There was a lordly mix-up in Smallweed when Lord Faulkner was attributed with some comments regarding lawyers that had, in fact, come from the homonymic Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC, minister for criminal justice.

The homonymic "per" of the first syllable of both words intensifies their trochaic mirroring, and evokes the entwined patterning of a tile or carpet, reminding us, ironically, how beautiful and logical Persian art may be.

China's web community is quite vibrant and inventive, often re-posting content when censors remove it, using technology to view banned sites, or employing analogies or homonymic characters.

—Evan Osnos From my years growing up in New Jersey, I remember Thanksgiving as a time when I would invariably be called upon to explain the relationship between Turkey, my parents' home country, and the homonymic seasonal poultry.

The Internet is teeming with unsolicited ads for products with vaguely homonymic names, though none of them come close to Pfizer's allegedly unintended melding of "vital" and "Niagara" to generate the best product name since Coke.

About a year ago, after learning that Fox was looking for procedural medical shows, David Shore, another executive producer of the series, created Dr. House, named as a homonymic tip of the hat to Sherlock Holmes.

Legal positivism is here sometimes associated with the homonymic but independent doctrines of logical positivism (the meaning of a sentence is its mode of verification) or sociological positivism (social phenomena can be studied only through the methods of natural science).

Traditional commentaries beginning with the Hanfeizi often play on the homonymic relation between de (virtue) and another graph also pronounced de, which means to "acquire" or "obtain" something.

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