(n.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results are discussed within both an attentional and a connectionist account of homograph disambiguation.
(2) This patient was treated with an induction chemotherapy protocol of vinblastine sulfate, bleomycin, and cisplatin and has remained free of disease through June 1985, without loss of his renal homograph.
(3) 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.
(4) In experiment 2, the disambiguating words had a significant effect on meaning interpretation of the homographs that was independent of visual field of presentation.
(5) 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.
(6) Experiment 3 converged on context-sensitive activation following a 50-ms exposure of the sentence-final homograph.
(7) Homographs and ambiguous words were biased according to the prime toward their low or high imageable meanings and unilaterally presented in the visual field.
(8) An experiment using homographs verified the general conclusion from previous studies.
(9) Studies in which homographs were used to produce a change in meaning were reviewed with the conclusion that when appropriate controls are used the effects are too small to support meaning as a major factor underlying recognition.
(10) Disambiguation of heterophonic and homophonic homographs was investigated in Hebrew using semantic priming.
(11) Experiment 2 demonstrated that only the more able retarded subjects, but not the less able ones, used sentence context in a normal way in order to pronounce homographs.
(12) Lexical decision for targets related to the dominant phonological alternatives of heterophonic homographs were facilitated at all SOAs.
(13) Experiment 2 examined the effects of unrecognized, disambiguating flank words on verbal responses to a centrally presented homograph.
(14) Conclusions are (a) initial meaning activation can be sensitive to context, (b) when a homograph is instantiated, it is congruent with a broad scope of targets, and (c) less-salient targets receive less activation over the time course.
(15) Less-salient targets, although initially activated, were no longer activated 300 ms following the homograph.
(16) Since June 1979, the authors have had the opportunity to treat a renal homograph recipient who developed primary embryonal cell testicular carcinoma with retroperitoneal and pulmonary metastases.
Homonym
Definition:
(n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim was to find out to what extent information from homonymous muscles of the forelimbs converge on the same CBM neurons and whether the probability of such a convergence depends on location (axial, proximal, distal) or function (flexor, extensor) of the tested muscles.
(2) Positive correlation was also observed between the amplitudes of the median mEPSPs and the maximum homonymous composite EPSPs in the cells for which both data points were available.4.
(3) Unfortunately, up to now it has not been possible to induce such a sensory-motor compensation in cases of homonymous hemianopia with normal retinal correspondence in an adult visual system.
(4) In post-spike averages of 1000-10,000 sweeps, no evidence of reflex excitation of the homonymous motoneurone pool was detected.
(5) The postoperative course was uneventful and he was discharged without any deficits except for a left upper quadrant homonymous hemianopia.
(6) All patients suffered hemiparesis, and hemisensory loss and homonymous hemianopsia were identified in 2 patients.
(7) Novel words were presented to children, half serving as potential homonyms, half as unlikely homonyms.
(8) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
(9) The patient was a 60-year-old female, and the initial symptoms were mild headache followed by right homonymous hemianopsia.
(10) Bilateral upper homonymous quadrantanopsias usually leave the macula more or less unimpaired, so that visual acuity is largely preserved.
(11) Neurological examination revealed slight right hemiparesis, right homonymous hemianopsia and left papilledema.
(12) Neurological examination on admission revealed memory disturbance, left homonymous hemianopsia and left hemiparesis.
(13) The experiments were carried out in incidental memory paradigms, where high and low imagery words without any homonyms were used as stimuli.
(14) Presynaptic inhibition of homonymous Ia afferent terminals to soleus, quadriceps and tibialis anterior motoneurons and of heteronymous Ia fibres from quadriceps to soleus was compared in the same subjects when standing without support and during a control situation (sitting or standing with back support).
(15) In transverse sections the axon collateral outbulgings were found not only in the classical Renshaw cell area ventromedial to the main motor nuclei but also within the homonymous motor nucleus.
(16) SLDs could be elicited in given motoneurones by stimulation of their homonymous but never of their antagonistic muscle nerves.
(17) The VERs relating to normal homonymous field quadrants were in phase in all three groups, excluding patients with cataracts.
(18) The patient remained in excellent health until 22 months after the initial ocular problem when she developed a left homonymous hemianopia.
(19) A 45-year-old man of bilateral occipital infarction with central homonymous hemianopia is reported.
(20) On admission, she had bilateral papilledema, left homonymous hemianopia, and right hearing impairment.