homographs in English

noun
1
each of two or more words spelled the same but not necessarily pronounced the same and having different meanings and origins (e.g., bow 1 and bow 2 ).
They may, however, be put off by homographs and polysemous words, such as the various uses of ‘bank’ and ‘crane’.

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1. Contextual logic may help to eliminate unwanted uses of homographs.

2. Two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning.

3. Some lexical sets are also included, such as homographs and homonyms, compound nouns, and academic subjects.

4. dot, accent, cedilla) placed near a simple grapheme of the alphabet to indicate a different phonemic value or to distinguish homographs.

5. 'Bow' meaning the front of a ship, 'bow' meaning a loop made in a string or ribbon and 'bow' meaning a device used to shoot arrows are all homographs.