Crossword-Solution: HOMOPHONOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Homophonous | a. | Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic. |
| Homophonous | a. | Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody. |
| Homophonous | a. | Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey. |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
LAWOPL
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with HOMOPHONOUS (5)
After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification.
His was a talent thoroughly indigenous--his compositions are of great simplicity; no too complicated combinations of parts, one might even say that they are homophonous; nevertheless what wealth of thought, what beauty of harmony, what profoundness of sentiment do we find there! These simple melodies clothed in pure and truly holy harmonies, written, as Gomolka said himself, not for the Italians, but for the Poles, who are happy in their own country, are the best specimens of the national style.
According to phonetic law the latter word should have become _litch_ in modern English; but it very early underwent a punning alteration which made it homophonous with the ancient word for physician.
Homophonous: words differently written but indistinguishable in sound, applied to different conceptions.
Its acquisition also gives him familiarity with four hundred and fifty-four common words employed as names, a knowledge, too, of great importance lest mistakes be made in choosing a wrong character among the scores of homophonous characters in the language.