Crossword-Solution: HOMONYMS
We have 18 clues for the answer “HOMONYMS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dear and deer, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Words with the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings and origin | 1 answer |
| Words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings | 1 answer |
| Way and weigh | 1 answer |
| This puzzle has three sets of ___ | 1 answer |
| The sentence "The rose rose up from the soil" contains them | 1 answer |
| Potential source of verbal misunderstanding | 1 answer |
| Hymn and him | 1 answer |
| Donne and done, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Common features of wordplay | 1 answer |
| Bow and bow or tear and tear, for example | 1 answer |
| Bear-bare, hair-hare, etc. | 1 answer |
| "Two" and "too," for example | 1 answer |
| "Bear" and "Baer" | 1 answer |
| DEMONSTRATED THAT DIFFERENT WEIGHTS DESCEND AT THE SAME RATE | 11 answers |
| BAER, MAX | 11 answers |
| BAER, MAX MILIEU | 11 answers |
| A SINGLE TONE REPEATED WITH DIFFERENT WORDS OR DIFFERENT RHYTHMS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HOMONYMS (5)
The Chevalier de Valois of Alencon was accepted by the highest aristocracy of the province as a genuine Valois; and he distinguished himself, like the rest of his homonyms, by excellent manners, which proved him a man of society.
The scientific value to be attached in Aesthetic and in aesthetic criticism to these distinctions of _realistic and symbolic_, of _style and absence of style_, of _objective and subjective_, of _classic and romantic_, of _simple and ornate_, of _proper and metaphorical_, of the fourteen forms of metaphor, of the figures of _word_ and of _sentence_, and further of _pleonasm_, of _ellipse_, of _inversion_, of _repetition_, of _synonyms and homonyms_, and so on; is _nil_ or altogether negative.
Thus were synonyms and homonyms destroyed, and thus was shown the impossibility of really translating one word into another, from so-called dialect into so-called language, and from a so-called mother-tongue into a so-called foreign tongue.
Development of these distinctions led to carelessness of articulation, and multiplication of what would be homonyms but for these tones.
The town referred to in the text is the principal town of the Jhânsî district, distinguished from its homonyms as Mau- Rânîpur, situated about east-south-east from Jhânsî, at a distance of forty miles from that city.
Quotes with HOMONYMS (2)
That's just like the manual says,' said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody understands all the time.''You mean with no homonyms?' said Doc Brenner. Mr. Gross belched again, and held up two fingers to indicate another Boilermaker. 'Are you saying that the language a fella speaks can make a fairy of him?' ("Gin Comes In Bottles")
Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1975–2024).