What's the difference between anagram and homophone?

Anagram


Definition:

  • (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
  • (v. t.) To anagrammatize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Priming effects in a test of anagram solution were compared with recognition memory in young and older adults.
  • (2) This was the case even when the words were anagrams.
  • (3) Tasks included the digit symbol substitution test, the Stroop Color-Word Interference Test, anagram solution, and unsolvable puzzles.
  • (4) Solving anagrams involved more effort than did simply typing words, as indexed by response time.
  • (5) After completing a mood checklist, all subjects worked on an anagram task presented as a second experiment by a second experimenter.
  • (6) Sixty-four subjects were administered two tests of explicit memory (selective recall and recognition) and four tests of implicit memory (identification in a perceptual clarification procedure, word-fragment completion, tachistoscopic identification, and anagram solution).
  • (7) 48 fourth-and fifth-grade boys and girls (assigned to low, middle, and high anxiety groups by their scores on the Test Anxiety Scale for Children) performed anagram tasks in the presence of an experimenter also working on anagrams.
  • (8) Single-solution anagrams were chosen from lists of age-appropriate vocabulary words high in concrete imagery or low in imagery (abstract).
  • (9) The self-esteem of male and female competitive athletes was compared after each was provided either positive or negative (verbal) informational feedback on a nonathletic task, a series of single-solution anagrams.
  • (10) An evaluation of the indices proposed in the literature regarding measures of anagram difficulty was made by asking three groups (ages 17-26, 39-51, 59-76) of adults (n = 54) to solve a list of 30 anagrams.
  • (11) Cognitive (arithmetic, anagram, and digit-string memorization) tasks each at two levels of difficulty were matched for reported unpleasantness with autopsy slides to provide stimuli in which stress reactions were constant but cognitive processing requirements varied.
  • (12) As predicted by the learned helplessness model of depression, nondepressed subjects given unsolvable problems showed anagram deficits parallel to those found in naturally occurring depression.
  • (13) The article confirms previous results on the stability with age of anagram ability.
  • (14) Even stronger differences were seen with regard to the number of complete anagrams.
  • (15) filled interval and their number of correct single solution anagrams tended to correlate negatively with estimated time.
  • (16) 10.16am BST More helpful suggestions , this from Mark Judd: I fully understand your desire not to mention the new 'Him', but you could use this anagram of his name and it seems apt int he circumstances: 'Grab The Ale' I like it.
  • (17) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
  • (18) The four types of stressful stimuli were: a cold pressor; a stressful film depicting industrial accidents; unsolvable anagrams; and an aversive car horn.
  • (19) The effects of these treatments on performance were examined by measuring trials to criterion on a subsequent anagram task.
  • (20) It was also found that the cognitive variable mediating the effects of these indices in middle aged and elderly subjects was crystallized ability, suggesting an experiential basis for the effects of both task and organismic variables as determinants of anagram problem solving in adulthood.

Homophone


Definition:

  • (n.) A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
  • (n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experiment 1 visually presented uncommon spellings of homophones to subjects before and during a suggestion for hypnotic blindness, and subsequently tested subjects' spelling of the homophones.
  • (2) A further study required subjects to decide whether visually presented nonwords were homophonous with real words.
  • (3) Procedural memory, as measured by stem completion, homophone spelling and transformed text reading, did not differ between Alzheimer patients and controls.
  • (4) Van Orden (1987) reported that false positive errors in a categorization task are elevated for homophonic foils (e.g., HARE for A PART OF THE HUMAN BODY).
  • (5) Experiment II was designed for dissociation between phonemic and semantic information of the memory trace, using homophones as study and test items.
  • (6) The Post alleged his surname was changed to "Jia": a homophone for "fake" in Chinese, but also the surname of another senior leader, Jia Qinglin, who was reportedly furious at rumours that his family might be involved and ordered an investigation.
  • (7) The implicit memory ability of a patient (S.S.) with severe amnesia due to encephalitis was assessed using five independent paradigms: Perceptual priming with real words and pseudowords; Word-stem completion with and without contextual cues; Word-stem completion following presentation of high- vs. low-frequency words; Biasing of the spelling of ambiguous (homophonic) words; and Conceptual priming.
  • (8) Subjects' attributions of their performance did not involve awareness of the homophones.
  • (9) When the primes were homophonic homographs, semantic relationship facilitated lexical decision of targets at all SOAs regardless of the dominance of the meaning to which the targets were related.
  • (10) Two experiments provided evidence of environmental context-dependent memory using a homophone spelling test (e.g., Jacoby & Witherspoon, 1982), an implicit, indirect measure of memory (Richardson-Klavehn & Bjork, 1988).
  • (11) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 29 May 2009 Near homophone corner: referring to the leader comment below, a reader justly asks, "Calling Miliband and Johnson Messers may well have been an opinion but could you have meant Messrs?".
  • (12) Additionally, in each of two experiments, matched word and nonword homophones produced virtually identical error rates.
  • (13) These data can be accounted for by assuming multiple lexical entries for heterophonic homographs, single lexical entries for homophonic homographs, and phonological mediation of accessing meanings.
  • (14) "The Japanese government is eager to break through the postwar system," wrote the ruling Communist party's flagship People's Daily newspaper in an editorial written under the name Zhong Sheng, a homophone for Voice of China .
  • (15) A homophone of a target word, when presented as a preview in the parafovea, facilitated processing of the target word seen on the next fixation more than a preview of a word matched with the homophone in visual similarity to the target word.
  • (16) Results of the present study, involving the recognition and spelling of semantically biased homophones, suggest a negative answer to this question and imply that intraoperative events cannot be remembered postoperatively, either with or without awareness.
  • (17) If stimulus nonword homophones are viewed as extremely unfamiliar words, compared with the relatively familiar stimulus word homophones, then our failure to observe an effect of stimulus familiarity strengthens the case that phonological coding plays a role in the identification of all printed words.
  • (18) She learned to use homophones to evade the censors.
  • (19) The present study investigates the influence of different contexts on their interpretations of homophones.
  • (20) Although his oral reading of words is prompt and generally accurate, analysis of his lexical decision performance and the way that he defines homophones indicate that he does not have fully specified lexical entries available for reading either.

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