POLISEMY,HOMOPHONES,HOMOGRAPHS POLISEMYand HETERONYM

1.

Polisemy

Polisemyis refers to a word that has two or more similar meanings, or semantics, strict sense) A word thatboth sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a differentmeaning. for example : The house is at the foot of the mountains One of his shoes felt too tightfor his foot Foot hererefers to the bottom part of the mountains in the first sentence and the bottom part of the leg in the second.another example are : crawl - to move slowly on hands andknees crawl - to move slowly in traffic crawl - to be covered with moving things crawl - to swim the crawl

2.

Homonyms

Homonymcomes from the Greek homo which means same and onym whichmeans name. When we talk about words, however, what should we use to definetheir names? The spelling or the pronunciation? Probably both. Homonyms,therefore, can be defined as two or more words that share the same spelling, orthe same pronunciation, or both, but have different meanings. So, Homonymsare words that sound alike but have different meanings,or Homonyms,or multiple meaning words, are words that share the samespelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings, further categorizationis needed. We can say that homonyms represent the big category, from which 3sub-categories emerge. For example, bear. A bear(the animal) can bear (tolerate) very cold temperatures.The driverturned left (opposite of right) and left (departed from) the mainroad.another example

Accept (to receive) and Except (excluding) Acts (things done) and Ax (chopping tool) Ad (advertisement) and Add (short for addition) Affect (to influence) and Effect (result) Aid (to assist) and Aide (an assistant)

3.

Homophones

Homophones, also known as sound-alikewords, are words thatare pronounced identically although they have different meanings and often havedifferent spellings as well. These words are a very common source of confusionwhen writing. Commonexamples of sets of homophones include: to, too, and two; they're and their;bee and be; sun and son; which and witch; and plain and plane. VocabularySpelling City is a particularly useful tool for learning to correctly use andspell the soundalike words. Or in short way we can give explanation tohomophones is Homophones are words that have exactly the same sound (pronunciation) but differentmeanings and (usually) spelling. For example,the following two words have the same sound, but different meanings andspelling: ( hour,our) or In the nextexample, the two words have the same sound and spelling, but different meanings( bear the animal, bear to carry) Usuallyhomophones are in groups of two (our, hour), but very occasionally they can bein groups of three (to, too, two) or even four. If we take our "bear"example, we can add another word to the group"bare(naked),bear(the animal),bear(to tolerate).

4.

Homographs

One of two ormore words that have the same spelling but differ in origin, meaning, andsometimes pronunciation, or are words that are spelled the same, but havedifferent meanings and are often pronounced differently as well. Some examplesof homographs are: 5. bass as in fish vs bass as inmusic bow as in arrow vs bow as inbending or taking a bow at the end of a performance close as in next to vs close as inshut the door desert as in dry climate vs desertas in leaving alone. Heteronyms/ Heterophones

Those arehomonyms that share the same spelling but have different pronunciations. Thatis, they are homographs which are not homophones. Example: desert (toabandon) and desert (arid region) or different sound,same spelling forexample tear( in the eye), tear( rip).