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homonym

Word that sounds the same and possibly the same spelling as another but has different meanings. For example: lead (noun) is a metal, and lead (verb) is the action of directing.



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4) the following excerpt again illuminates that obvious homonymous trip which, indubitably, will never be flagged by a patently decontextualized automated spellchecker software: "The various types of evaluation methods used in libraries can be categorized as questionnaires, interviews, numbers-gathering, and observation (Johnson 1996).
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In retrospect, it is ironic that Russell drew rhetorical support from logical positivist strictures against the reification of natural language, since a German or French speaker could easily see that only an anglophone like Russell could be misled by the homonymous use of 'knowledge' to conclude that 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by inference' must have something in common that is captured by the word 'knowledge'.
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