Heteronym

Heteronym

A word spelled the same (homograph) as another but having a different sound and meaning (eg: lead ; row ; bear ). See homonym, oronym, vocabulary, rhetorical forms, alphabet; compare contranym.

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heteronym

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A word spelled the same (homograph) as another but having a different sound and meaning (eg: lead ; row ; bear ). See homonym, oronym, vocabulary, rhetorical forms, alphabet; ...

heteronym

Literature; Poetry

One of a group of words with identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations.

heteronymous

Language; Dictionaries

Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.

heteronym

Language; Dictionaries

That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

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A line or separation in the presentation of an image; see drop out. Also, a strip or stripe of color; see illustration. Also, a track or channel, as audio segment or computer ...

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A sequence of ordered items awaiting processing, especially for some electronic action in a computer system. See pagination, gang.

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An absorbent material made from plant pulp or fibrous substances, usually in thin sheets or leaves, dyed or bleached to a desired hue, pressed or polished into a desired texture, ...

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Communication using a formalized system of arbitrary vocal sounds, orthographic symbols and signs, or nonverbal gestures in conventional ways with conventional meanings, such as ...

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Rubber-coated pad, mounted on a cylinder of an offset press, that receives the inked image from the plate, and transfers it to the surface to be printed by the impression ...

hypertext markup language (HTML)

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The language format used to develop and write document pages on the World Wide Web. Webpages are built with HTML codes or tags (qv) embedded into the text. HTML defines the ...

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