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It is typically used to describe two words that have the same spelling but different meanings. For example, the words "tear" (a drop of liquid that comes from your eye) and "tear" (to rip something apart) are homonymous.
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homonymous
adjective
Having the same name as another
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Damage to one side results in homonymous hemianopia, the loss of all sight in the field of vision on the opposite side.
The old diphthong ŭi [ɨy], into which ăe [əy] merged, was largely replaced by (initially) or [i], but it is maintained in spelling certain words of Chinese origin such as ŭiŭi [ɨ:i] 'meaning' and in writing the particle -ŭi [e] 'of' (but not the homonymous particle -e 'to' or 'in').
Its homonymous title, evocative of the 2012 mass shooting at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, is the only brash (some might even say bratty) aspect of this otherwise cold, distant film.
If inner speech is the raw material for hallucinatory phenomena, it is also at the centre of our imaginary engine – supporting our simple need for, as the homonymous text by Beckett portrays, an intimate Company (1980) in the inaccessible dark of our subjectivity.
Don't let the homonymous name fool you – this place is rich in deliciousness and spirit.
He suggested that the axiom of equality in mathematical set theory was analogous to the homonymous concept in feminist politics.
Besides clocks, giving umbrellas is taboo because doing so is homonymous with a phrase that means the person's family will be dispersed.
"Grandmother" (grand-mere) stands for African ancestral wisdom, while grammar (the homonymous "grammaire") refers to the rules and techniques of moviemaking, a historically Western, paradigmatically modern art form.
In Japan the fetishistic love for two-dimensional characters is enough of a phenomenon to have earned its own slang word, moe, homonymous with the Japanese words for "burning" or "budding".
It is homonymous and modulated.
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'Being', he tells us, is 'said in many ways' but it is not merely (what he calls) 'homonymous', i.e., sheerly ambiguous.
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