Crossword-Solution: HOMOPHONE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Homophone | n. | A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. |
| Homophone | 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. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “HOMOPHONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Punster's instrument | 1 answer |
| Word that is pronounced the same as another | 1 answer |
| Cache for cash, say | 2 answers |
| WORD with same pronunciation, different meaning | 2 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
ECMZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HOMOPHONE (3)
The Kamilaroi bundar (=kangaroo) may give us a clue to the meaning of the Dippil Bundar[125]; the Kiabara Bulcoin has a homophone in the Peechera tribe, where it means kangaroo; on the Hastings River it means red wallaby.
The following will indicate one way in which you may proceed in memorising the attachments of the muscles of the back: (1) First make a homophone of the name of the muscle.
For example: "The SPLENIUS COLLI is attached, inferiorly, to the spinous processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth dorsal vertebræ, and superiorly to the transverse processes of the first two or three cervical vertebræ." spleniuS COLLi (homophone) SCOLD.
Quotes with HOMOPHONE (1)
I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1995–2012).