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Note: correctly, a pair of homonyms are two words pronounced and spelled identically but differ in meaning, a pair of homophones are pronounced identically but differ in meaning and a pair of homographs are spelled identically but differ in meaning. This is a list of commonly confused homonyms, homophones and homographs Look up homonym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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- accept: tolerate
except: everything but - allowed: permitted
aloud: audibly - allot: to distribute, allocate
a lot: much; many (a lot of) - allusion: indirect reference
elusion: evasion
elution: separation by washing
illusion: a distortion of sensory perception - bare: as a verb, to expose, to remove cover; as a noun, naked, exposed; very little (bare necessities)
bear: as a noun, a large mammal (e.g. American Black Bear); as a verb, to carry something ("to bear arms"), to endure ("I can't bear it"), or to give birth to (bear fruit) - boy: a male adolescent or child; an exclamation "oh boy"
buoy: (noun) a floating marker in the sea; (verb, often "buoy up") to keep afloat, to sustain or encourage (the soldiers were buoyed up by letters from home) (pronounced boy in the UK, but in the US is either homophonous with "boy" or pronounced with two syllables to rhyme with "chewy")
bhoy: a house servant for families in India (borrowed from the English word "boy") - bow: (rhymes with 'cow'): The front section of a ship or boat; a gesture made by bending forward at the waist
bough: (rhymes with 'cow') A tree branch, especially a large or main branch.
bow: (rhymes with 'go'): A weapon made of a curved stick whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows; a type of knot with two loops - brake the practise of stopping, halting or slowing down.
break a short rest or the method of snapping, splitting or damaging something through the use of force. - bridal: pertaining to a bride (bridal gown, bridal suite)
bridle: (noun) part of a horse's tack around its neck and head; (verb) to appear offended or proud - carry: to move while supporting
Carrie: a woman's name, pet form of Caroline, French feminine form of Carolus, Charles, from the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". Also, name of first published Stephen King novel.
Kerry: a surname, from the name of the Irish county County Kerry, which means "Ciar's people" in Irish. - caught: past tense of "catch"
cot: a small, collapsible bed. Predominantly in North America, see cot-caught merger. - choir: a choral singing group
quire: sometimes a variant spelling of "choir", but more commonly a term for a quantity of sheets of paper, or a part of a church housing the altar and, frequently, the choir stalls - chord: group of musical notes; anything that can be "struck" (It struck a sensitive chord)
cord: rope; long electrical line; vertebral column
cored: having the inside cut out, like an apple
cawed: past tense of "to caw" - to make a raucous noise - choux (pronounced as shoe): plural of chou, as used in choux pastry
shoe: footwear
shoo: exclamation used for scaring things away - content: noun. something contained in a package
content: noun. or adj. satisfied, happy - compliment: a praising or flattering remark given to someone; to give such a remark
complement: something that completes something else; to complete (something) - cue: a rod or stick used to play the game billiards or pool
queue: a line of people waiting - descent: a downwards path
dissent: disagreement - discreet: means tactful or diplomatic
discrete: means separate or distinct - do: conduct or carry out something
do (to rhyme with doe) / doh: the first note of the solfege scale
doe: a female deer; also female of various other species (by extension)
d'oh!: an annoyed grunt
dough: a moistened mass of flour used to make bread; slang term for money - effect: ramification: cause and effect; sound effect (as a noun); bring about (effect change) (as a verb)
affect: have an effect on; pretentiously display (affect a British accent); emotion (in psychology and psychiatry). - elicit: to call forth, draw out, or provoke (a reaction, for example)
illicit: not sanctioned by custom or law; unlawful - ensure: to make certain, to guarantee
insure: to purchase financial protection, as in an insurance policy.
assure: to assuage the concern of another person. - fa / fah: the fourth note of the solfege scale
far: distant (In non-rhotic dialects, these are homonyms.) - fairy: imaginary small person with special powers (often homophonous with "ferry" in the US)
ferry: boat for carrying people or vehicles short distances on water - faze: to temporarily stop or shock (It didn't even faze them)
phase: a stage through which one goes - flaw: defect (homonymous with floor in non-rhotic dialects)
floor: a level; lower surface of a room; the area of a legilsative building members speak from, so "to take/hold the floor"; to knock to the ground; to confound someone
flor: a yeasty growth that forms on sherry after fermentation. - formerly: in the past
formally: in a formal way
(These are not homonyms to most speakers of English, but are homonyms in some non-rhotic dialects, including "Received Pronunciation".) - gnaw: to bite or chew on persistently
nor: negates the last member of a series of negated items - hair: an outgrowth of the epidermis in mammals (e.g. human facial hair); similar structures on plants
hare: (noun) a swift, long-eared mammal which, along with rabbits, forms the family Leporidae; (verb) to dash or sprint ("I hared around the kitchen")
Herr: the title meaning "Mr." for a man from Germany or Austria - hay: grass cut and dried for animal feed
hay: the choke of an artichoke
hey: an exclamation used to draw attention, "Hey! Over here!"; a greeting
hey or hay: a weaving figure in English country dance, morris dance and contra dance
heigh: in the phrase "heigh-ho" expressing weariness or disappointment - heir: one who inherits
air: the mixture of gases present in a planet's atmosphere - here: this place (opposed to there)
hear: sense with the ears; also in the phrase "Hear! Hear!" for strong agreement - high: opposite of low; elevated, far above the ground; under the influence of drugs
hi: a greeting; shortened from "high" as part of hi-fi or el-hi
hie: to speed or hurry somewhere, "hie thee to France"
hi or heigh: part of the phrase "hi-ho" in the song "Hi Ho Silver Lining", or "heigh-ho" in the movie lyric "heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go"
jai: as in jai alai - hoard: to accumulate and store up as much of something as one can
horde: large group of warriors, mob
hoared: old, mouldy, fusty
whored: past tense of "to whore" - to act as a prostitute
hawed: past tense of haw - equivocate - imminent: soon to occur
immanent: existing only in the mind, or acting in the material world
(Some speakers (perhaps 10%) of USA-English also pronounce eminent like these two.) - its: belonging to it (analogous to my, your, his, her, our, their)
it's: contraction for "it is" (analogous to I'm, you're, he's, she's, we're, they're) or "it has" (analogous to I've, you've, he's, she's, we've, they've) - key: instrument used to open locks; a guide to symbols, especially on maps; the essential element "the key to his success"; a range of musical notes "try it in a lower key"; a button or lever on piano or computer keyboards
key: a low island or sandbank, the Florida Keys
quay: pronounced as key in the UK, as key, kay or kway in the US; a wharf, a structure built out into water for the ease of loading and unloading vessels
cay: a West Indian word for an island, as in the novel The Cay
ki: another name for the Hawaiian plant ti - lam: US slang: "on the lam" means "on the run"
lamb: a young sheep - law: legal rule
lore: old story often not written down
la: the sixth note of the solfege scale - lead: pronounced to rhyme with "seed", to guide or serve as the head of
lead: pronounced to rhyme with "head", a heavy metal
led: the past tense of "lead"
leed: a copper kettle; a cauldron - lock: a mechanical device for securing doors or canals; also the act of using such a device (verb); a tuft of human hair
Lok: alternative name for Loki, the Norse god of mischief
Locke: the surname of early liberal philosopher John Locke - marry: to wed
merry: happy
Mary: a woman's name, from Maria, probably a variation of the Hebrew name Miriam, meaning "sea of bitterness" - medal: an award to be strung around the neck
meddle: stick one's nose into others' affairs
metal: shiny, malleable element or alloy like silver, gold, iron, zinc, tin, copper, bronze or brass
mettle: toughness, guts
Note that the first two of these are only homonyms of the second two in North American English. - morning: the time between midnight and midday
mourning: period of grieving after the death of a relative, friend or public figure, clothing worn at this time (e.g. mourning dove) - past: time before now (past, present and future); beyond; after the hour (three past nine = 9:03); former (in her past life)
passed: past tense of "to pass" - pasture: a field where animals graze; pastor: a minister of a Christian church.
pasta: a type of food made from the flour of certain grains mixed with water and/or eggs. - parse: to break down into component parts (e.g. for analysis)
pars: the acts of scoring a par in golf; also plural of "par"
parrs: plural of "parr" - a young salmonid fish - piece: portion
peace: opposite of war; quietness (peace of mind) or silence (speak now or forever keep your peace) - pi: the ratio of the diameter and circumference of a circle (also the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet)
pie: a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust - peak: tip, height, to reach its highest point, a mountain
peke: a breed of dog
peek: to take a brief look, usually through a thin aperture (sneak peek)
pique: fit of anger; to incite (pique one's interest) - paw: a mammal's foot(who the heck pronounces paw like poor?)
poor: impoverished; also, to be pitied (Poor Peter!), also bad (poor quality)
pore: a hole in the skin; to go over with great focus (pore over)
pour: to run out (said of liquid); to rain heavily
par: common level; equality - principal: can be a noun or an adjective, a person of primary importance
principle: a noun: it cannot be an adjective, a fundamental rule or law - rack: a long, open container with a rectangular frame (spice rack); one's upper body; to torture (verb) or an instrument of torture (noun)
wrack: to destroy, a shipwreck, commonly found in the phrase "to go to wrack and ruin"
Note: In British English, only the first spelling should be used in the phrase "to rack one's brains"; in American English the second spelling is also acceptable in this context; the meaning of "rack" in this phrase is related to the rack as an instrument of torture - rain: water falling from the sky
reign: to rule; hold the position as monarch
rein: the strip used to control a horse; anything that restrains; to restrain anything by pulling in its irrational exuberance (pull the reins in on)
Rayne: a city in Louisiana - ray: a beam of light
ray: a type of fish
ray / re: the second note of the solfege scale
Re / Ra(h): an Egyptian god.
rah: a short form of "hurrah" - reek: to stink
wreak: to bring about (wreak havoc)
reak: a rush (plant), or a prank - rest: sit down without doing anything active; the remainder
wrest: to struggle to extricate something (wrest it out of his hands) - retch: to vomit
wretch: a person in a miserable condition; a person of bad character - right: the direction opposite to left; correct; something a person must have his/her choice to do respected (the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness); straight or directly (went right to his heart)
write: to put down in letters; send a letter to (Write me soon!)
rite: ritual, ceremony (rites of passage)
wright: connected with other words to mean someone who constructs (playwright, scenewright, wheelwright) - ring: piece of jewelry; make a sound like a bell or telephone, or tinnitus in the ears; anything shaped like a circle or torus (like the rings in a bathtub); sound familiarly like (that rings of fascism)
wring: strangle (wring his neck), squeeze and twist (wring the water out of laundry) - root: part of a plant, usually beneath the ground
route: path of travel, Standard English pronunciation - rout: chaotic or disorderly retreat
route: path of travel, American English pronunciation - row (rhymes with "go"): to pull a boat through the water with oars
row (rhymes with "cow"): a fuss or a fight
roe: fish eggs (such as caviar); a deer (the roebuck)
Roe: pseudonym used in court cases for women having or seeking abortions (most famously in Roe v. Wade)
rho: letter of the Greek alphabet equivalent to R
Ro: a constructed language based on categorization - seem: appear to
seam: a join; a line of stitches that holds two pieces together - shear: trim, remove; strain
sheer: absolute, very steep; swerve - sight: vision
site: place, grounds; place in cyberspace
cite: quote or make a reference to; write a ticket - so: likewise; therefore; to such a degree
so or soh: the fifth note of the solfege scale
sow (pronounced as so): to scatter seeds
sew (pronounced as so): join together or stitch
sew (pronounced as sue): to drain (as the root of sewage)
Sioux (pronounced as sue): Native American tribe
sou (pronounced as sue): a French five-centime coin; any small amount of money
sous (pronounced as sue): French for "under", often used as a prefix such as in sous-chef - a sub-chef
sue: to prosecute or petition for
xu (pronounced as sue): a Vietnamese monetary unit, 1/100 of a dong
sow (to rhyme with cow): a female pig - some: a few
sum: what you get when you add numbers; short for summarize (sum up) - stake a wooden implement used in woodcraft or the in popular culture, the abolition of a vampire.
steak a large chunk of meat commonly eaten across Britain. - tail: appendage of most mammals
tale: a story - tea: a tree and the drink produced from its leaves
tee: a support for the ball in golf
ti / te: the seventh note of the solfege scale
ti: a Polynesian tree similar to the taro
see also the disambiguation page TI - tear (rhymes with fear): a drop of fluid which falls from the eyes when weeping or crying
tear (rhymes with fare): rip; to run extremely fast, jolt, bolt, dart
tare: dry measure of grains; payment in wheat; adjustment to a weighing device
tier: layer or level - their: belonging to them
there: that place (opposed to here); denotes existence of something
they're: contraction for "they are" - theirs: belonging to them
there's: contraction for "there is" or "there has" - therefore: thus, ergo (I think therefore I am)
therefor: for the aforementioned thing or purpose; for that (similar to thereof, thereby, therefrom, thereagainst, etc.) - to: towards or headed for; in order to; used before the infinitive of verbs
too: also; excessively
two: the number 2
tui: the parson bird
tout: French word meaning "all", as in mange-tout - vary: make a change in; undergo change
very: adverbial intensifier - waste: to use up for something pointless; sewage (toxic waste)
waist: the line that goes across the middle of your body - weather: the meteorological conditions; to survive some wear and tear
whether: if something is so or not
wether: a male sheep (The bellwether was the ram who led the herd, and carried a bell around his neck to signal the front of the herd coming.) - wet: to dampen; damp
whet: to sharpen (a knife, one's appetite) - which: similar to 'what', as in "which one?"
witch: one who practices witchcraft; green lady dressed in black who rides a broomstick - while: during a period of time
wile: deceitful cunning - whore: a prostitute
horror: intense fear(come on horror has 2 syllables)
hoar: white with age - whose: belonging to whom
who's: contraction for "who is" or "who has"
hoos: plural of hoo, a small hill or promontory (as in Sutton Hoo) - yolk: the yellow part of an egg
yoke: wooden fastener on working animals such as oxen or horses - your: belonging to you (analogous to my, his, her, its, our, their)
you're: contraction for "you are" (analogous to I'm, he's, she's, it's, we're, they're)
yore: time long ago, a bygone age ("the days of yore")
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In music, solfege (or solmization) is a pedagogical technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfege syllable (or sol-fa syllable). The seven syllables normally used for this practice in the West are: Do, Re...
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Orders Subclass Protobranchia Solemyoida Nuculoida Subclass Pteriomorphia - oysters Arcoida Mytiloida Pterioida Subclass Paleoheterodonta - mussels Trigoinoida Unionoida Subclass Heterodonta - clams, zebra mussels Veneroida Myoida Subclass Anomalosdesmata Pholadomyoida Animals of the Class Bivalvia are known as bivalves because they typically have two-part shells, with both parts being more or less symmetrical. ...
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In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz...
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In music, solfege (or solmization) is a pedagogical technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfege syllable (or sol-fa syllable). The seven syllables normally used for this practice in the West are: Do, Re...
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In music, solfege (or solmization) is a pedagogical technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfege syllable (or sol-fa syllable). The seven syllables normally used for this practice in the West are: Do, Re...
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In music, solfege (or solmization) is a pedagogical technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfege syllable (or sol-fa syllable). The seven syllables normally used for this practice in the West are: Do, Re...
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- anna: give!
Anna: a feminine name - hanki: snowdirt
hanki: get! - hauista [1]: from searches
hauista: muscle (partitive case)
hauista: from pikes - huopaa: felt, blanket
huopaa: back the oars! - kadun: I regret
kadun: of a street - kuusi: six
kuusi: fir-tree
kuusi: your moon - laita: edge
laita: arrange!, put! - lakka: varnish
lakka: cloudberry
lakka: pigeon house - norja: willowy
Norja: Norway - palaa: burn
palaa: (he) comes back - pala: piece
pala: burn! - panna: put
panna: excommunication
panna: slang word which roughly translates to "to fuck" in English - pitää: hold
pitää: like
pitää: need to - puola: bobbin, coil
puola: the Polish language
Puola: Poland - satu: fairy tale
satu: hurt!
Satu: a girl's name - suo: swamp
suo: (he) grants
suo: grant! - turkki: fur, fur coat
Turkki: Turkey - vaara: danger
vaara: hill - voi: butter
voi: (he) can, (he) is able to
voi: oh - vuori: mountain
vuori: lining Nuances are easily formed with such words: The basic meaning of the Partitive case is partialness, without result or without specifying identity. In the Finnish language, its used to express unknown identities and irresultative actions. ...
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- Haetaan lakkaa satamasta, kun lakkaa satamasta. (Let's get varnish from the harbour when it stops raining.)
- Voi äiti, joulukuusi palaa! (Oh mother, the Christmas tree is on fire / your December returns) (Usually told in Swedish: Oj mamma, julsexen kommer tillbaka!)
Notes - ^ Hauista as in from searches is pronounced /'hɑuistɑ/ ("HA-ooy-sta"), if it is from pikes or muscle, the pronunciation is /'hɑu:istɑ/ ("HOW-is-ta)
- bar: bar (saloon)
bar: bass (fish)
- 萩村 - Hagimura, a person's name
- 荻村 - Ogimura, a person's name
A log bridge in the French Alps near Vallorcine. ...
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Rain is a type of precipitation which forms when separate drops of water fall to the Earths surface from clouds. ...
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Suborders †Pohlsepia (incertae sedis) †Proteroctopus (incertae sedis) †Palaeoctopus (incertae sedis) Cirrina Incirrina Synonyms Octopoida Leach, 1817 The octopus (Greek , eight-legs) is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. ...
Yokaichi Giant Kite Festival held on the fourth Sunday every May in Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan Kite flying is the activity of flying tethered man-made objects in wind. ...
Technically speaking, white is a color, but it is also the combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum. ...
Pierrefonds Castle, France. ...
A Phalaenopsis flower Rudbeckia fulgida A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ...
For the article about nose in humans, see human nose Human nose in profile Elephants have prehensile noses Dogs have very sensitive noses Anatomically, a nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which admit and expel air for respiration in conjunction with the mouth. ...
- брак /brak/: marriage
брак /brak/: spoilage, defect - есть /jestʲ/: there is; is
есть /jestʲ/: to eat - ключ /klʲuʨ/: key
ключ /klʲuʨ/: spring (source of water), source - коса /kʌ'sa/: plait (referring to hair)
коса /kʌ'sa/: scythe
коса /kʌ'sa/: spit (landform) - лук /luk/: onion
лук /luk/: bow (weapon) - мир /mir/: peace
мир /mir/: world - пол /pol/: floor (lower surface of a room)
пол /pol/: gender
пол- /pol-/: prefix meaning "a half of" - соль /solʲ/: salt
соль /solʲ/: G (note) A spit is a deposition landform found off coasts. ...
A mat is a generic term for a piece of fabric or flat material, generally placed on a floor or other flat surface, and serving a range of purposes including: providing a regular or flat surface, such as a mouse mat protecting that which is beneath the mat, such as...
Checkmate (frequently shortened to mate) is a situation in chess (and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family) in which one players king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. ...
Mat (Russian: мат, or маÌтерный ÑзыÌк) is (Russian sexual slang, based on the use of) specific generally unprintable obscene words. ...
Type species Felis lynx Linnaeus, 1758 The overall range of Lynx species. ...
The trot is a gait of the horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forwards at the same time. ...
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List of homographs (also known as heteronyms) in English. ...
The meanings of words in the English language often change over time. ...
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