What's the difference between homonym and homophone?
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.
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.