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  2. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1][2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form.

  3. Interlingual homograph - Wikipedia

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    An interlingual homograph is a word that occurs in more than one written language, but which has a different meaning or pronunciation in each language. [1] [2] For example the word "done" is an adjective in English (pronounced /dʌn/), a verb in Spanish (present subjunctive form of donar ) and a noun in Czech (vocative singular form of don ...

  4. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    List of English homographs. Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (homophones), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on ...

  5. Homograph - Wikipedia

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    A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, [2] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...

  6. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish chile, from Nahuatl chilli. chipotle. from Spanish, smoked jalapeño, from Nahuatl chilpoctli. chocolate. from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water."

  7. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling. These are homographs that are not homophones. Thus, lead (/ˈlɛd/ the metal) and lead (/ˈliːd/ a leash) are heteronyms, but mean (/ˈmin/ average) and mean (/ˈmin/ intend) are not, since they are ...

  8. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    93000. 100000. Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük (Kubbealtı Lugatı) [109] Turkish dictionary that is composed of modern and Ottoman Turkish, includes 60,000 entries and 33,000 idioms with around 100,000 examples based on literary works of 840 writers. It's online version is named "Kubbealtı Lugatı". [110] Spanish. 93,000.

  9. Bilingual interactive activation plus - Wikipedia

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    Bilingual interactive activation plus (BIA+) is a model for understanding the process of bilingual language comprehension and consists of two interactive subsystems: the word identification subsystem and task/decision subsystem. [1] It is the successor of the Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA) model [2] which was updated in 2002 to include ...