Homograph

A Homograph is a Written Word in a Homography Relation with another (identically Spelled) Written Word (that has a different Referent).

• Example(s):
  • content(~feeling) and content(~items) are Homophones.
  • bank(river) and bank(organization) are Homographs (and Homophones and therefore also Homonyms).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • knight and night are Homophones.
• See: Homophone, Homonym.

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References

2005

• (ANSI Z39.19, 2005) ⇒ ANSI. (2005). “ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." ANSI.
  • QUOTE: "homograph One of two or more words that have the same spelling, but different meanings and origins. In controlled vocabularies, homographs are generally distinguished by qualifiers.

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